47 books
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34 voters
Subversive Books
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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,391,327 ratings — published 1949
Tampa (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.33 — 57,340 ratings — published 2013
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.60 — 554,037 ratings — published 2018
Crash (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.60 — 29,909 ratings — published 1973
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.09 — 264,495 ratings — published 1980
The Lacuna (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.83 — 74,151 ratings — published 2009
Story of the Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.64 — 25,176 ratings — published 1928
Breakfast of Champions (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.06 — 278,706 ratings — published 1973
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.06 — 376,561 ratings — published 1971
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,393,500 ratings — published 1985
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.18 — 639,334 ratings — published 1996
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,004,011 ratings — published 2017
The Wasp Factory (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.75 — 107,814 ratings — published 1984
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.52 — 116,731 ratings — published 2010
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,060,070 ratings — published 1932
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,784,275 ratings — published 1993
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,491,287 ratings — published 1945
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,474,452 ratings — published 1969
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,174,372 ratings — published 1954
The Message (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.50 — 39,823 ratings — published 2024
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.92 — 78,839 ratings — published 1968
Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.14 — 54,973 ratings — published 2020
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.29 — 79,886 ratings — published 1995
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.28 — 98,734 ratings — published 2017
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.39 — 372,447 ratings — published 1986
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.77 — 382,644 ratings — published 2017
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.65 — 366,796 ratings — published 2007
Piercing (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.68 — 19,206 ratings — published 1994
The Cement Garden (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.53 — 35,268 ratings — published 1978
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.46 — 318,876 ratings — published 2019
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.49 — 798,263 ratings — published 2016
The Palace of Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.95 — 6,310 ratings — published 1981
We Sold Our Souls (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.70 — 32,486 ratings — published 2018
The Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.75 — 251,003 ratings — published 2016
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.80 — 105,511 ratings — published 2017
Notes of a Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.36 — 24,019 ratings — published 1955
Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.89 — 7,256 ratings — published 2017
The Secret History of Twin Peaks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.96 — 12,027 ratings — published 2016
Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,108 ratings — published 1997
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.50 — 137,132 ratings — published 1928
Little Red (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,409 ratings — published 2016
Damned (Damned, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.41 — 58,384 ratings — published 2011
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.24 — 24,180 ratings — published 1988
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.97 — 74,604 ratings — published 1995
Queer (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.49 — 22,952 ratings — published 1985
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.87 — 938,436 ratings — published 1955
The Monk (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.86 — 33,333 ratings — published 1796
Riddley Walker (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,663 ratings — published 1980
Last Exit to Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.93 — 29,884 ratings — published 1964
“It’s late and most of the clerks are at home in their beds, dreaming of swimming in pools filled with real money.”
― From the Horse’s Mouth
― From the Horse’s Mouth
“Social change is a million individual acts of kindness; culture change is a million subversive acts of resistance.”
― Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
― Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls













