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71 voters
Subversive Books
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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,338,045 ratings — published 1949
Tampa (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.33 — 56,452 ratings — published 2013
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.60 — 545,146 ratings — published 2018
Crash (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.60 — 29,406 ratings — published 1973
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.09 — 262,824 ratings — published 1980
The Lacuna (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 73,793 ratings — published 2009
Story of the Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.64 — 24,907 ratings — published 1928
Breakfast of Champions (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.06 — 277,520 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 — 374,708 ratings — published 1971
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 2,371,014 ratings — published 1985
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.18 — 635,939 ratings — published 1996
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.45 — 998,429 ratings — published 2017
The Wasp Factory (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.75 — 106,864 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 — 116,159 ratings — published 2010
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,046,299 ratings — published 1932
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,766,999 ratings — published 1993
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,447,146 ratings — published 1945
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,466,858 ratings — published 1969
The Message (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.51 — 38,205 ratings — published 2024
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.92 — 78,643 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 — 53,977 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 — 79,432 ratings — published 1995
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.27 — 96,122 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 — 370,307 ratings — published 1986
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.77 — 368,431 ratings — published 2017
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.65 — 353,533 ratings — published 2007
Piercing (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.69 — 18,785 ratings — published 1994
The Cement Garden (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.53 — 35,026 ratings — published 1978
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.47 — 308,342 ratings — published 2019
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.49 — 790,548 ratings — published 2016
The Palace of Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.95 — 6,206 ratings — published 1981
We Sold Our Souls (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.70 — 31,961 ratings — published 2018
The Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.75 — 249,763 ratings — published 2016
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.81 — 104,470 ratings — published 2017
Notes of a Native Son (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 23,797 ratings — published 1955
Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 7,188 ratings — published 2017
The Secret History of Twin Peaks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.96 — 11,948 ratings — published 2016
Guide (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 1,094 ratings — published 1997
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.50 — 136,383 ratings — published 1928
Little Red (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 1,400 ratings — published 2016
Damned (Damned, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.41 — 58,185 ratings — published 2011
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.24 — 23,781 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 — 73,352 ratings — published 1995
Queer (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.49 — 22,570 ratings — published 1985
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.87 — 932,249 ratings — published 1955
The Monk (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.85 — 32,688 ratings — published 1796
Riddley Walker (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,625 ratings — published 1980
Last Exit to Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.93 — 29,444 ratings — published 1964
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.30 — 575,169 ratings — published 1969
“Even if Aristotle was not an atheist in the sense that he directly and openly attacked the divine . . . one could say that he was one in a broader sense, because his ideas on divinity indirectly tend to undermine it and destroy it.”
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“Men circle like bees around honey, buzzing to communicate their sexual despair.”
― From the Horse’s Mouth
― From the Horse’s Mouth













