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Thought Provoking Books
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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 336 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,340,033 ratings — published 1949
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 278 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,448,743 ratings — published 1945
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 220 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,371,835 ratings — published 1985
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 219 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,774,404 ratings — published 1953
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 218 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,778,704 ratings — published 1960
The Midnight Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 210 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,370,379 ratings — published 2020
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 190 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,767,561 ratings — published 1993
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 182 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,497,901 ratings — published 1988
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 173 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,837,979 ratings — published 2005
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,046,755 ratings — published 1932
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,645,663 ratings — published 2012
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,156,345 ratings — published 1954
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,973,509 ratings — published 1999
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,815,591 ratings — published 2018
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 117 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,739,231 ratings — published 2008
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.37 — 853,983 ratings — published 1946
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,231,330 ratings — published 2011
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.45 — 998,567 ratings — published 2017
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,446,042 ratings — published 2003
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,422,756 ratings — published 1943
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,356,220 ratings — published 1942
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,830,347 ratings — published 1890
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.47 — 2,988,999 ratings — published 2009
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 104 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.41 — 785,526 ratings — published 2016
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.85 — 834,524 ratings — published 2005
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.23 — 778,837 ratings — published 1966
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,815,994 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 — 1,176,473 ratings — published 1997
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,709,380 ratings — published 2007
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,740,074 ratings — published 2001
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.19 — 855,652 ratings — published 2008
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,845,512 ratings — published 1951
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,188,162 ratings — published 1963
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,467,082 ratings — published 1969
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,019,475 ratings — published 2007
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,816,649 ratings — published 1925
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,129,800 ratings — published 1947
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,347,617 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 — 1,582,305 ratings — published 2003
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,380,957 ratings — published 1915
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 78 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.35 — 4,082,636 ratings — published 2009
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 77 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,500,991 ratings — published 2016
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,731,572 ratings — published 2005
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 74 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,461,985 ratings — published 1985
The Screwtape Letters (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 73 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.27 — 509,586 ratings — published 1942
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,790,450 ratings — published 1937
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,269,419 ratings — published 2004
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.73 — 972,613 ratings — published 2023
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 70 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,656,620 ratings — published 2010
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.49 — 790,691 ratings — published 2016
“Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in the
world. It’s like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens.”
― Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
world. It’s like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens.”
― Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
“We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.”
― Jonathan Livingston Seagull
― Jonathan Livingston Seagull
