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Thought Provoking Books
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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 350 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,540,577 ratings — published 1948
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 287 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,616,827 ratings — published 1945
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 233 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,511,501 ratings — published 2020
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 231 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,875,704 ratings — published 1953
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 226 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,459,389 ratings — published 1985
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 220 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,945,540 ratings — published 1960
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 191 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,831,812 ratings — published 1993
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 183 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,616,707 ratings — published 1988
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 173 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,904,840 ratings — published 2005
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 165 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,096,301 ratings — published 1932
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 147 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,764,577 ratings — published 2012
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,227,839 ratings — published 1954
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,278,550 ratings — published 2011
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.37 — 893,211 ratings — published 1946
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,888,567 ratings — published 2018
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,018,145 ratings — published 1999
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,522,180 ratings — published 2003
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 115 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,005,462 ratings — published 2008
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,510,818 ratings — published 1943
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,430,490 ratings — published 1942
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,019,967 ratings — published 2017
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,909,884 ratings — published 1890
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 106 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.41 — 818,518 ratings — published 2016
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.85 — 868,763 ratings — published 2005
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,039,994 ratings — published 2009
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.24 — 806,506 ratings — published 1966
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,923,123 ratings — published 1818
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,217,925 ratings — published 1997
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,922,249 ratings — published 1951
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,755,547 ratings — published 2007
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.19 — 873,067 ratings — published 2008
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,761,888 ratings — published 2001
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,244,491 ratings — published 1963
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,493,818 ratings — published 1969
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,973,760 ratings — published 1925
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,027,956 ratings — published 2007
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.08 — 525,740 ratings — published 1995
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,226,591 ratings — published 1947
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,374,586 ratings — published 1956
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,457,186 ratings — published 1915
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,758,157 ratings — published 2005
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 78 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,676,619 ratings — published 2016
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,606,461 ratings — published 2003
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,066,340 ratings — published 2023
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 77 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,201,162 ratings — published 2009
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,481,071 ratings — published 1985
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,099,568 ratings — published 1866
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,280,294 ratings — published 2004
The Screwtape Letters (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 73 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.27 — 529,739 ratings — published 1942
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,864,097 ratings — published 1937
“Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? How many had been born but their light not yet come this far? If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize we were alone? I had always known the sky was full of mysteries—but not until now had I realized how full of them the earth was.”
― Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
― Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
“Words are like people, I think. Put too many of them too close together and they cause trouble.”
― Take Me There
― Take Me There
