37 books
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32 voters
Intellectual Books
Showing 1-50 of 8,317
An Ishmael of Syria (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as intellectual)
avg rating 3.81 — 634 ratings — published 2016
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.17 — 591,117 ratings — published 2011
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,410,669 ratings — published 1942
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,488,470 ratings — published 2020
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,267,326 ratings — published 2011
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as intellectual)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,584,941 ratings — published 1988
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.19 — 869,056 ratings — published 2008
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,435,233 ratings — published 1985
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,573,918 ratings — published 1945
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,889,220 ratings — published 1890
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,035,957 ratings — published 1992
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.37 — 882,801 ratings — published 1946
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as intellectual)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,850,632 ratings — published 1953
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.28 — 351,543 ratings — published 180
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.22 — 423,694 ratings — published 2003
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,086,940 ratings — published 1866
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,906,538 ratings — published 1960
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as intellectual)
avg rating 3.68 — 199,114 ratings — published 1848
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.01 — 856,709 ratings — published 2000
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as intellectual)
avg rating 3.94 — 573,722 ratings — published -500
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as intellectual)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,437,636 ratings — published 1915
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as intellectual)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,083,700 ratings — published 1932
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as intellectual)
avg rating 3.84 — 384,009 ratings — published 1532
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as intellectual)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,209,505 ratings — published 1954
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as intellectual)
avg rating 3.97 — 226,629 ratings — published -400
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,229,103 ratings — published 1963
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,310,001 ratings — published 2018
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.08 — 476,092 ratings — published 2012
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as intellectual)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,845,659 ratings — published 1937
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as intellectual)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,936,340 ratings — published 1925
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as intellectual)
avg rating 3.96 — 623,174 ratings — published 2005
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,822,011 ratings — published 1813
Atlas Shrugged (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as intellectual)
avg rating 3.69 — 407,440 ratings — published 1957
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 13 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.18 — 288,248 ratings — published 2015
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.03 — 114,646 ratings — published 1886
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.11 — 546,002 ratings — published 1984
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.01 — 898,929 ratings — published 2005
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,486,780 ratings — published 1969
The 48 Laws of Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.09 — 227,386 ratings — published 1999
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.08 — 207,810 ratings — published 2017
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,153,440 ratings — published 1936
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,367,674 ratings — published 1956
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,108,610 ratings — published 1967
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.03 — 30,019 ratings — published 1962
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.21 — 177,626 ratings — published 1984
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.39 — 388,468 ratings — published 1880
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as intellectual)
avg rating 3.88 — 94,278 ratings — published 2011
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.29 — 182,931 ratings — published -350
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,203,584 ratings — published 1947
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as intellectual)
avg rating 4.03 — 206,783 ratings — published 1321
“The nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself”
― The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything
― The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything
“Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?”
― A Confederacy of Dunces
― A Confederacy of Dunces












