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1984 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 5,824,979 ratings — published 1949
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mind-altering)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,087,060 ratings — published 1999
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as mind-altering)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,027,614 ratings — published 2015
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as mind-altering)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,912,315 ratings — published 2010
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mind-altering)
avg rating 4.25 — 855,567 ratings — published 1966
Girl in Pieces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mind-altering)
avg rating 3.93 — 292,220 ratings — published 2016
Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mind-altering)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,036,982 ratings — published 1818
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mind-altering)
avg rating 3.99 — 450,596 ratings — published 2019
The Silent Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mind-altering)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,688,896 ratings — published 2019
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as mind-altering)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,720,887 ratings — published 2020
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mind-altering)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,026,158 ratings — published 2018
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mind-altering)
avg rating 3.90 — 78,425 ratings — published 1956
A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as mind-altering)
avg rating 4.63 — 3,553,439 ratings — published 2016
There Is No Antimemetics Division (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as mind-altering)
avg rating 3.97 — 71,548 ratings — published 2020
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mind-altering)
avg rating 4.19 — 607,149 ratings — published 2020
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mind-altering)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,149,191 ratings — published 1992
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mind-altering)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,635,127 ratings — published 1943
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mind-altering)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,794,859 ratings — published 2005
No Longer Human (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 296,011 ratings — published 1948
The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as mind-altering)
avg rating 4.26 — 4,056,469 ratings — published 2022
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 393,629 ratings — published 1892
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as mind-altering)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,998,371 ratings — published 2005
Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mind-altering)
avg rating 3.78 — 101,913 ratings — published 2009
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mind-altering)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,166,701 ratings — published 1960
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 2,976,389 ratings — published 1937
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as mind-altering)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,356,753 ratings — published 2008
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as mind-altering)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,920,855 ratings — published 1993
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mind-altering)
avg rating 4.16 — 622,433 ratings — published 2011
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mind-altering)
avg rating 4.09 — 924,888 ratings — published
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mind-altering)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,633,726 ratings — published 2003
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as mind-altering)
avg rating 3.80 — 339,470 ratings — published 2014
Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as mind-altering)
avg rating 4.23 — 165,171 ratings — published 2015
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mind-altering)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,040,053 ratings — published 2007
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mind-altering)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,861,092 ratings — published 1945
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mind-altering)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,169,332 ratings — published 1932
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mind-altering)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,021,594 ratings — published 1963
LSD Psychotherapy: The Healing Potential of Psychedelic Medicine (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mind-altering)
avg rating 4.35 — 344 ratings — published 1975
Martyr! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mind-altering)
avg rating 4.13 — 234,433 ratings — published 2024
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mind-altering)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,424 ratings — published 2026
Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as mind-altering)
avg rating 4.20 — 11,397 ratings — published 2024
Kingdom of Ash (Throne of Glass, #7)
by (shelved 1 time as mind-altering)
avg rating 4.71 — 1,296,766 ratings — published 2018
Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as mind-altering)
avg rating 4.06 — 23,571 ratings — published 2022
Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass, #5)
by (shelved 1 time as mind-altering)
avg rating 4.63 — 1,448,240 ratings — published 2016
The Elsewhere Express (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mind-altering)
avg rating 3.53 — 12,393 ratings — published 2026
Wild Dark Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mind-altering)
avg rating 4.04 — 671,222 ratings — published 2025
Sagawa's Manga: A bizarre comic book written and drawn by the Kobe Cannibal (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mind-altering)
avg rating 3.48 — 42 ratings — published
The Order of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mind-altering)
avg rating 4.12 — 42,141 ratings — published 2017
The Rest of Us Just Live Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mind-altering)
avg rating 3.68 — 64,125 ratings — published 2015
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as mind-altering)
avg rating 3.87 — 986,266 ratings — published 1955
Dead Poets Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mind-altering)
avg rating 4.17 — 169,930 ratings — published 1988
“The only way to truly help most drug addicts and most alcoholics is to—instead of them—change reality.”
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“It's to be something you're merely to suffer?"
"Well, say to wait for--to have to meet, to face, to see suddenly break out in my life; possibly destroying all further consciousness, possibly annihilating me; possibly, on the other hand, only altering everything, striking at the root of all my world and leaving me to the consequences, however they shape themselves.”
― The Beast in the Jungle
"Well, say to wait for--to have to meet, to face, to see suddenly break out in my life; possibly destroying all further consciousness, possibly annihilating me; possibly, on the other hand, only altering everything, striking at the root of all my world and leaving me to the consequences, however they shape themselves.”
― The Beast in the Jungle