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An Ishmael of Syria (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as intellectual)
avg rating 3.81 — 635 ratings — published 2016
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.17 — 613,633 ratings — published 2011
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,513,942 ratings — published 1942
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,731,250 ratings — published 1949
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,777,479 ratings — published 1945
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,321,728 ratings — published 2011
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,113,535 ratings — published 1992
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as intellectual)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,733,679 ratings — published 1988
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,546,963 ratings — published 1985
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,098,912 ratings — published 1960
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.19 — 888,155 ratings — published 2008
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.37 — 932,071 ratings — published 1946
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.21 — 434,352 ratings — published 2003
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,988,970 ratings — published 1890
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.27 — 378,463 ratings — published 180
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as intellectual)
avg rating 3.69 — 208,576 ratings — published 1848
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as intellectual)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,973,948 ratings — published 1963
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,148,967 ratings — published 1866
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as intellectual)
avg rating 3.94 — 594,606 ratings — published -500
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.01 — 866,636 ratings — published 2000
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,409,705 ratings — published 2018
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,304,445 ratings — published 1963
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as intellectual)
avg rating 3.84 — 398,908 ratings — published 1513
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as intellectual)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,145,499 ratings — published 1932
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as intellectual)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,304,060 ratings — published 1954
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as intellectual)
avg rating 3.96 — 630,111 ratings — published 2005
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as intellectual)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,541,707 ratings — published 1915
Atlas Shrugged (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as intellectual)
avg rating 3.69 — 411,564 ratings — published 1957
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 14 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.18 — 295,006 ratings — published 2015
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.07 — 484,566 ratings — published 2012
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.40 — 411,773 ratings — published 1879
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as intellectual)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,938,862 ratings — published 1937
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as intellectual)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,119,818 ratings — published 1925
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as intellectual)
avg rating 3.97 — 232,225 ratings — published -400
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,988,760 ratings — published 1813
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.10 — 565,942 ratings — published 1984
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.01 — 910,065 ratings — published 2005
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.33 — 306,773 ratings — published 2014
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.02 — 119,782 ratings — published 1886
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,316,744 ratings — published 1947
Sophie’s World (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as intellectual)
avg rating 3.97 — 290,725 ratings — published 1991
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,961,920 ratings — published 2018
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.08 — 215,817 ratings — published 2017
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,399,512 ratings — published 1956
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,144,723 ratings — published 1967
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.11 — 963,854 ratings — published 1878
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.02 — 30,977 ratings — published 1962
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.21 — 183,519 ratings — published 1984
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as intellectual)
avg rating 3.88 — 95,377 ratings — published 2011
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as intellectual)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,999,864 ratings — published 1951
“Through their intellectual disability or mental illiteracy, some cannot free themselves from the imprisonment of irrevocable idiocy and feel condemned to find gratifying compensation by extracting the vilest qualities from the deep quarters of their dark self. ("Ugly mug offense")”
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“She had never heard the word 'intellectual' used as a noun before she went to Barnard, and she took it to heart. It was a brave noun, a proud noun, a noun suggesting lifelong dedication to lofty things and a cool disdain for the commonplace. An intellectual might lose her virginity to a soldier in the park, but she could learn to look back on it with wry, amused detachment. An intellectual might have a mother who showed her underpants when drunk, but she wouldn't let it bother her. And Emily Grimes might not be an intellectual yet, but if she took copious notes in even the dullest of her classes, and if she read every night until her eyes ached, it was only a question of time.”
― The Easter Parade
― The Easter Parade
