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Provocative Books
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Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.87 — 961,961 ratings — published 1955
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.65 — 417,534 ratings — published 2007
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,456,825 ratings — published 1942
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,547,067 ratings — published 2003
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,503,486 ratings — published 1969
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,909,130 ratings — published 1953
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,605,088 ratings — published 1948
Rejection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.76 — 40,987 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 — 7,321 ratings — published 1969
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.10 — 997,271 ratings — published 2001
Lapvona (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.54 — 105,369 ratings — published 2022
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,097,142 ratings — published 2023
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,936,142 ratings — published 1890
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.16 — 242,927 ratings — published 1864
Free Will (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.86 — 38,591 ratings — published 2012
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.18 — 653,098 ratings — published 1996
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.27 — 966,489 ratings — published 2015
The Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.75 — 255,515 ratings — published 2016
The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.73 — 32,714 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 — 43,889 ratings — published 2014
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.00 — 17,068 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 — 22,137 ratings — published 2015
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,773,087 ratings — published 2007
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,949,300 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 — 72,307 ratings — published 2001
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,252,462 ratings — published 1954
Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,895,645 ratings — published 2011
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,671,047 ratings — published 1945
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.98 — 501,237 ratings — published 1987
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.08 — 218,467 ratings — published 2003
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 — 459 ratings — published 1992
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 4.30 — 55,083 ratings — published 2007
The Idea Machine: How Books Built Our World and Shape Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 4.18 — 51 ratings — published 2025
Speak, Memory (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,904 ratings — published 1966
Days in the Caucasus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,153 ratings — published 1945
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,498,440 ratings — published 2012
Half His Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.30 — 124,736 ratings — published 2026
Woman Down (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.47 — 143,147 ratings — published 2026
Auletris: Erotica (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.74 — 307 ratings — published
Sex in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,194 ratings — published 1980
Delta of Venus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.60 — 26,615 ratings — published 1977
Little Birds (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.68 — 14,192 ratings — published 1979
Monsignor Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,658 ratings — published 1982
Artemis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.68 — 343,953 ratings — published 2017
The Phoenix Crown (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.86 — 50,100 ratings — published 2024
Limonov (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,679 ratings — published 2011
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.99 — 895,140 ratings — published 1961
Hotel Iris (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.33 — 8,601 ratings — published 1996
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 4.13 — 506,383 ratings — published 2022
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience but spiritual beings having a human experience.”
― Initiation
― Initiation
“Life occasionally humbles us by making us turned on by someone whom we turn off.”
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