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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as seminal)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,507,298 ratings — published 1948
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as seminal)
avg rating 4.18 — 47,590 ratings — published 1949
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as seminal)
avg rating 3.99 — 889,226 ratings — published 1961
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as seminal)
avg rating 4.17 — 592,636 ratings — published 2011
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as seminal)
avg rating 4.20 — 782,357 ratings — published 1962
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as seminal)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,637,497 ratings — published 1965
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as seminal)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,088,229 ratings — published 1932
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as seminal)
avg rating 3.89 — 366,282 ratings — published 1984
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as seminal)
avg rating 4.07 — 362,897 ratings — published 1892
Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as seminal)
avg rating 4.32 — 85,509 ratings — published 1998
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as seminal)
avg rating 4.35 — 32,760 ratings — published 1961
Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as seminal)
avg rating 4.62 — 3,076 ratings — published 2017
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as seminal)
avg rating 4.47 — 406,607 ratings — published 2016
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as seminal)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,111,247 ratings — published 1967
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as seminal)
avg rating 4.19 — 267,780 ratings — published 1993
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as seminal)
avg rating 4.06 — 379,958 ratings — published 1971
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as seminal)
avg rating 4.08 — 882,368 ratings — published 1922
Man and His Symbols (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as seminal)
avg rating 4.19 — 34,143 ratings — published 1964
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as seminal)
avg rating 4.06 — 447,233 ratings — published 2016
The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as seminal)
avg rating 3.93 — 303,762 ratings — published 2005
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as seminal)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,234,514 ratings — published 1963
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as seminal)
avg rating 3.95 — 280,392 ratings — published 1993
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as seminal)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,852,195 ratings — published 1937
The Complete Works (Leather Bound)
by (shelved 2 times as seminal)
avg rating 4.48 — 57,723 ratings — published 1623
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as seminal)
avg rating 4.03 — 998,688 ratings — published 1939
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as seminal)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,589,365 ratings — published 1945
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as seminal)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,595,172 ratings — published 1988
Considerations on the AI Endgame: Ethics, Risks and Computational Frameworks (Chapman & Hall/CRC Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Series)
by (shelved 1 time as seminal)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published
Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as seminal)
avg rating 4.25 — 5,516 ratings — published 2022
Capital Account: A Fund Manager Reports on a Turbulent Decade, 1993-2002 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as seminal)
avg rating 4.47 — 123 ratings — published 2004
Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as seminal)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,463 ratings — published 2002
Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put it in the White House & What Their Influence Means for America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as seminal)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,789 ratings — published 2008
Screenwriting 101 by Film Crit Hulk! (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as seminal)
avg rating 4.40 — 784 ratings — published 2013
Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as seminal)
avg rating 4.16 — 171,949 ratings — published 1960
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)
by (shelved 1 time as seminal)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,654 ratings — published 1990
Gravity’s Rainbow (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as seminal)
avg rating 4.02 — 48,516 ratings — published 1973
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as seminal)
avg rating 4.04 — 459,734 ratings — published 1997
The Manipulated Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as seminal)
avg rating 3.57 — 2,014 ratings — published 1971
The Illuminatus! Trilogy (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as seminal)
avg rating 4.01 — 16,199 ratings — published 1983
Akira, Vol. 6 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as seminal)
avg rating 4.52 — 12,350 ratings — published 1993
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as seminal)
avg rating 4.15 — 223,606 ratings — published 1985
Blame!, Vol. 10 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as seminal)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,257 ratings — published 2003
Oleanna (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as seminal)
avg rating 3.60 — 10,076 ratings — published 1993
An Introduction to Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: Skills and Applications (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as seminal)
avg rating 4.16 — 255 ratings — published 2007
Mad, Bad, and Sad: Women and the Mind Doctors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as seminal)
avg rating 3.70 — 951 ratings — published 2007
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as seminal)
avg rating 4.16 — 116,172 ratings — published 1944
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as seminal)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,155,549 ratings — published 1936
The Silver Empire: How Germany Created Its First Common Currency (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as seminal)
avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published
“The world-discrediting insight of the monk "all lif is sorrowful" is combined with the world-begetting affirmative of the father: "life must be!" In full awareness of the life anguish of the creatures of his hand, in full consciousness of the roaring wilderness of pains, the brain-splitting fires of the deluded, self-ravaging, lustful, angry universe of his creation, this divinity acquiesces in the deed of supplying life to life. To withhold the seminal waters would be to annhilate; yet to give them forth is to create this world we know. For the essence of time is flux, dissolution of the momentarily existent; and the essence of life is time. In his mercy, in his love for the forms of time, this demiurgic man of men yields countenance to the sea of pangs; but in his full awareness of what he is doing, seminal waters of the life that he gives are the tears of his eyes.”
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