Intellectually Engaging Books
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Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 98,759 ratings — published 2015
The Knight and the Moth (The Stonewater Kingdom, #1)
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avg rating 4.22 — 232,832 ratings — published 2025
A Walk With Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.43 — 96 ratings — published 1958
Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.06 — 12,508 ratings — published 2017
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.19 — 392,039 ratings — published 2000
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,411,449 ratings — published 2018
Ariadne (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 3.78 — 151,974 ratings — published 2021
Averno (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.18 — 7,461 ratings — published 2006
If Beale Street Could Talk (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 86,622 ratings — published 1974
Island of Shattered Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.18 — 430 ratings — published 1991
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,675,467 ratings — published 1965
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,473,285 ratings — published 1942
Read This to Get Smarter: About Race, Class, Gender, Disability, and More (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,463 ratings — published
Atmosphere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.32 — 900,714 ratings — published 2025
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.18 — 655,712 ratings — published 1996
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,131,658 ratings — published 2008
The Materialist (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 2008
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.09 — 745,738 ratings — published 1966
Fast Talking PI (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.04 — 75 ratings — published 2009
Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.06 — 158,723 ratings — published 1943
Atalanta (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 3.74 — 37,538 ratings — published 2023
National Geographic Atlas of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.54 — 507 ratings — published 1975
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.07 — 30,497 ratings — published 1974
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,051,368 ratings — published 1925
Watch Me (Shatter Me: The New Republic, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.26 — 70,317 ratings — published 2025
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.08 — 212,952 ratings — published 2017
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 3.90 — 203,051 ratings — published 2025
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,961,411 ratings — published 1818
Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,810 ratings — published 1989
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,215,678 ratings — published 2025
The Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 3.69 — 231,280 ratings — published 1899
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.06 — 608,184 ratings — published 1995
Everything I Never Told You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 3.83 — 621,034 ratings — published 2014
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.07 — 206,363 ratings — published 2006
Bluebeard (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.07 — 45,303 ratings — published 1987
The Castle of Otranto (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 3.19 — 44,472 ratings — published 1764
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 3.84 — 306,566 ratings — published 1891
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 383,747 ratings — published 1856
The Nightingale and the Rose (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 12,731 ratings — published 1888
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 1,951,015 ratings — published 1890
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 2,243,448 ratings — published 1847
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 221,259 ratings — published 1927
Democracy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 4,483 ratings — published 1984
Melymbrosia (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 3.83 — 175 ratings — published 1981
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 3.77 — 367,467 ratings — published 1925
The Importance of Being Earnest (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 412,315 ratings — published 1895
The Garden of Eden (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 24,281 ratings — published 1986
Salomé (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 3.71 — 21,596 ratings — published 1891
The Penelopiad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 3.71 — 91,913 ratings — published 2005
Play It As It Lays (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 3.90 — 96,050 ratings — published 1970
