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Thought Provoking Books
Showing 1-50 of 30,595
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 336 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,341,024 ratings — published 1949
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 279 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,449,495 ratings — published 1945
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 220 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,372,259 ratings — published 1985
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 219 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,774,834 ratings — published 1953
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 218 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,779,441 ratings — published 1960
The Midnight Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 210 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,371,119 ratings — published 2020
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 190 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,767,853 ratings — published 1993
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 182 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,498,476 ratings — published 1988
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 173 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,838,303 ratings — published 2005
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,047,092 ratings — published 1932
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,646,200 ratings — published 2012
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,156,671 ratings — published 1954
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,973,707 ratings — published 1999
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,815,967 ratings — published 2018
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 117 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,740,417 ratings — published 2008
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.37 — 854,212 ratings — published 1946
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,231,665 ratings — published 2011
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.45 — 998,662 ratings — published 2017
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,446,441 ratings — published 2003
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,423,249 ratings — published 1943
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,830,740 ratings — published 1890
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,356,605 ratings — published 1942
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.47 — 2,989,210 ratings — published 2009
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 104 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.41 — 785,733 ratings — published 2016
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.85 — 834,709 ratings — published 2005
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.23 — 778,950 ratings — published 1966
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,816,766 ratings — published 1818
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,176,645 ratings — published 1997
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,709,626 ratings — published 2007
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,740,188 ratings — published 2001
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.19 — 855,763 ratings — published 2008
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,845,865 ratings — published 1951
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,188,425 ratings — published 1963
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,467,221 ratings — published 1969
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,019,528 ratings — published 2007
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,817,365 ratings — published 1925
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,130,316 ratings — published 1947
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,347,726 ratings — published 1956
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,582,437 ratings — published 2003
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,381,334 ratings — published 1915
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 78 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.35 — 4,083,150 ratings — published 2009
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 77 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,501,700 ratings — published 2016
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,731,676 ratings — published 2005
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 74 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,462,089 ratings — published 1985
The Screwtape Letters (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 73 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.27 — 509,695 ratings — published 1942
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,790,818 ratings — published 1937
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,269,468 ratings — published 2004
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.73 — 973,146 ratings — published 2023
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 70 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,657,061 ratings — published 2010
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.49 — 790,823 ratings — published 2016
“Challenge a person's beliefs, and you challenge his dignity, standing, and power. And when those beliefs are based on nothing but faith, they are chronically fragile. No one gets upset about the belief that rocks fall down as opposed to up, because all sane people can see it with their own eyes. Not so for the belief that babies are born with original sin or that God exists in three persons or that Ali is the second-most divinely inspired man after Muhammad. When people organize their lives around these beliefs, and then learn of other people who seem to be doing just fine without them--or worse, who credibly rebut them--they are in danger of looking like fools. Since one cannot defend a belief based on faith by persuading skeptics it is true, the faithful are apt to react to unbelief with rage, and may try to eliminate that affront to everything that makes their lives meaningful.”
― The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
― The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
“Serving” is assisting your fellow man, the how-to, practical way to thrust your life into the spiritual wall to make the
tunnel bigger. Will God suddenly appear? Does
washing stacks of pots and pans bring salvation?
Can pulling weeds reclaim your brain? Will mopping the floor make you equal to the richest of men?”
― Digging for God
Can pulling weeds reclaim your brain? Will mopping the floor make you equal to the richest of men?”
― Digging for God
