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Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.87 — 967,977 ratings — published 1955
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.65 — 431,091 ratings — published 2007
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,481,234 ratings — published 1942
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,569,387 ratings — published 2003
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,512,149 ratings — published 1969
Half His Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.26 — 153,265 ratings — published 2026
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,937,653 ratings — published 1963
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,660,007 ratings — published 1948
Rejection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.74 — 46,085 ratings — published 2024
The Craziest Book Ever Written (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.55 — 153 ratings — published
The Atrocity Exhibition (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.76 — 7,397 ratings — published 1969
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,000,026 ratings — published 2001
Lapvona (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.54 — 107,545 ratings — published 2022
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,123,202 ratings — published 2023
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,958,332 ratings — published 1890
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.16 — 248,762 ratings — published 1864
Free Will (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.86 — 38,818 ratings — published 2012
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.18 — 656,983 ratings — published 1996
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.27 — 981,767 ratings — published 2015
The Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.75 — 257,049 ratings — published 2016
The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.73 — 32,809 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 — 44,200 ratings — published 2014
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.00 — 17,216 ratings — published 1981
Chasing the Scream: The Search for the Truth About Addiction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.49 — 22,300 ratings — published 2015
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,788,266 ratings — published 2007
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,971,281 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 — 72,706 ratings — published 2001
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,276,617 ratings — published 1954
Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,907,376 ratings — published 2011
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,720,420 ratings — published 1945
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.99 — 506,042 ratings — published 1987
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.08 — 220,373 ratings — published 2003
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 4.38 — 6,493 ratings — published 2020
Sisters in Yellow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.70 — 4,017 ratings — published 2023
Feuchtgebiete (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 2.88 — 12,298 ratings — published 2008
The Hunting Wives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.47 — 99,386 ratings — published 2021
Big Rick Energy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 4.40 — 272 ratings — published
The Intellectuals and The Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia, 1880 - 1939 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.88 — 466 ratings — published 1992
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 4.30 — 55,542 ratings — published 2007
The Idea Machine: How Books Built Our World and Shape Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 4.07 — 71 ratings — published 2025
Speak, Memory (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,991 ratings — published 1966
Days in the Caucasus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,181 ratings — published 1945
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,519,581 ratings — published 2012
Woman Down (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.48 — 162,853 ratings — published 2026
Auletris: Erotica (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.74 — 309 ratings — published
Sex in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,196 ratings — published 1980
Delta of Venus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.60 — 26,852 ratings — published 1977
Little Birds (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.67 — 14,325 ratings — published 1979
Monsignor Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,696 ratings — published 1982
Artemis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.68 — 352,683 ratings — published 2017
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience but spiritual beings having a human experience.”
― Initiation
― Initiation
“Hey! look at us
We're digging and digging
Into stubborn, ancient earth;
We're discovering
Where we came from,
and how we came.
"but where are you going?"
Hey! look at us
We're learning and learning
Into stubborn laws
Of nature and space
And non-nature and non-space;
We're discovering
All there is to know.
"but where are you going?"
Hey! look at us
We're planning and planning
Into stubborn years
Of education and training
And hopes and dreams;
We're discovering
How not to waste any time.
"but where are you going?"
Hey! look at us
We're shiny and bright
And clever and sophisticated
And witty and well-read;
We're discovering
How to really fill up
This old life.
"but where are you going?"
where?
"Yes; where?”
― God is No Fool
We're digging and digging
Into stubborn, ancient earth;
We're discovering
Where we came from,
and how we came.
"but where are you going?"
Hey! look at us
We're learning and learning
Into stubborn laws
Of nature and space
And non-nature and non-space;
We're discovering
All there is to know.
"but where are you going?"
Hey! look at us
We're planning and planning
Into stubborn years
Of education and training
And hopes and dreams;
We're discovering
How not to waste any time.
"but where are you going?"
Hey! look at us
We're shiny and bright
And clever and sophisticated
And witty and well-read;
We're discovering
How to really fill up
This old life.
"but where are you going?"
where?
"Yes; where?”
― God is No Fool
