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Intellectually Engaging Books
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A Walk With Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.40 — 92 ratings — published 1958
Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.06 — 12,330 ratings — published 2017
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.19 — 376,223 ratings — published 2000
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,341,614 ratings — published 2018
Ariadne (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 3.78 — 145,767 ratings — published 2021
Averno (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.18 — 7,223 ratings — published 2006
If Beale Street Could Talk (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.27 — 81,416 ratings — published 1974
Island of Shattered Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.18 — 414 ratings — published 1991
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,622,465 ratings — published 1965
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,394,005 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 — 1,422 ratings — published
Atmosphere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.34 — 596,880 ratings — published 2025
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.18 — 641,932 ratings — published 1996
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,881,754 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 — 727,836 ratings — published 1966
Fast Talking PI (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.07 — 74 ratings — published 2009
Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.06 — 154,021 ratings — published 1943
Atalanta (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 3.74 — 34,855 ratings — published 2023
National Geographic Atlas of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.54 — 505 ratings — published 1975
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.08 — 29,777 ratings — published 1974
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,900,286 ratings — published 1925
Watch Me (Shatter Me: The New Republic, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.27 — 55,910 ratings — published 2025
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.08 — 206,482 ratings — published 2017
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 3.96 — 143,885 ratings — published 2025
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,879,586 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 — 4,525 ratings — published 1989
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,022,822 ratings — published 2025
The Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 3.69 — 227,012 ratings — published 1899
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.11 — 450,397 ratings — published 1995
Everything I Never Told You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 3.83 — 610,245 ratings — published 2014
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.07 — 202,009 ratings — published 2006
Bluebeard (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.07 — 44,439 ratings — published 1987
The Castle of Otranto (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 3.19 — 42,440 ratings — published 1764
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 3.84 — 302,264 ratings — published 1891
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 3.71 — 374,100 ratings — published 1856
The Nightingale and the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.27 — 12,364 ratings — published 1888
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,870,798 ratings — published 1890
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,039,965 ratings — published 1847
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 3.81 — 214,235 ratings — published 1927
Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 3.85 — 4,320 ratings — published 1984
Melymbrosia (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 3.85 — 171 ratings — published 1981
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 3.78 — 355,730 ratings — published 1925
The Importance of Being Earnest (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.17 — 405,101 ratings — published 1895
The Garden of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 3.70 — 23,749 ratings — published 1986
Salomé (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 3.71 — 20,848 ratings — published 1891
The Penelopiad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 3.71 — 86,580 ratings — published 2005
Play It As It Lays (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 3.90 — 90,674 ratings — published 1970
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,755 ratings — published 2011
Bluets (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-engaging)
avg rating 4.05 — 57,505 ratings — published 2009
