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Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.87 — 946,298 ratings — published 1955
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.65 — 382,863 ratings — published 2007
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,403,562 ratings — published 1942
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,495,835 ratings — published 2003
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,484,179 ratings — published 1969
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.18 — 287,678 ratings — published 2015
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,468,084 ratings — published 1949
Rejection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.78 — 31,553 ratings — published 2024
The Craziest Book Ever Written (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.52 — 153 ratings — published
The Atrocity Exhibition (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.76 — 7,209 ratings — published 1969
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.10 — 991,112 ratings — published 2001
Lapvona (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.54 — 99,960 ratings — published 2022
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,032,611 ratings — published 2023
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 1,881,354 ratings — published 1890
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 229,609 ratings — published 1864
Free Will (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.86 — 38,083 ratings — published 2012
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.18 — 643,467 ratings — published 1996
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.28 — 928,940 ratings — published 2015
The Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.75 — 252,296 ratings — published 2016
The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists (Imitation Leather)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.73 — 32,524 ratings — published 2005
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.21 — 43,059 ratings — published 2014
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.00 — 16,645 ratings — published 1981
Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.50 — 21,757 ratings — published 2015
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,896,378 ratings — published 1951
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.08 — 71,421 ratings — published 2001
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,202,818 ratings — published 1954
Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,867,169 ratings — published 2011
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,557,075 ratings — published 1945
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.98 — 490,920 ratings — published 1987
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.08 — 213,112 ratings — published 2003
Artemis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.68 — 326,654 ratings — published 2017
The Phoenix Crown (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.86 — 46,571 ratings — published 2024
Limonov (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 4.12 — 16,019 ratings — published 2011
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.99 — 887,131 ratings — published 1961
Hotel Iris (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.33 — 8,304 ratings — published 1996
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 4.14 — 471,777 ratings — published 2022
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 4.00 — 77,949 ratings — published 1981
The Long Game (Game Changers, #6)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 4.52 — 114,815 ratings — published 2022
Tough Guy (Game Changers, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.64 — 47,687 ratings — published 2020
Game Changer (Game Changers, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.82 — 101,514 ratings — published 2018
Role Model (Game Changers, #5)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 4.18 — 44,565 ratings — published 2021
Merry Christmas, Scott & Kip (Game Changers, #1.5)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,376 ratings — published 2018
Common Goal (Game Changers, #4)
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avg rating 3.68 — 38,935 ratings — published 2020
Heated Rivalry (Game Changers, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 4.32 — 212,130 ratings — published 2019
The Well-Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.56 — 2,273 ratings — published 1892
Tropic of Cancer (Tropic, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.65 — 78,054 ratings — published 1934
The Double Life of Mr. Alfred Burton (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 27 ratings — published 1913
The Husband Stitch (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,865 ratings — published 2014
Why We're Polarized (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 19,728 ratings — published 2020
The Member of the Wedding (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.81 — 20,351 ratings — published 1946
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience but spiritual beings having a human experience.”
― Initiation
― Initiation
“When a person gets severe radiation poisoning, some time passes before they feel the adverse effects. Their DNA has functionally been scrambled; their cells can’t divide; the person is dead—they just don’t know it yet. Many wildly popular cultural movements are currently in this state. It may be easier to coax a caged panda to reproduce than it would be to convince a cosmopolitan progressive to raise their own kid. ”
― The Pragmatist's Guide to Governance: From high school cliques to boards, family offices, and nations: A guide to optimizing governance models
― The Pragmatist's Guide to Governance: From high school cliques to boards, family offices, and nations: A guide to optimizing governance models
