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Thought Provoking Books
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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 336 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,340,739 ratings — published 1949
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 279 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,449,282 ratings — published 1945
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 220 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,372,176 ratings — published 1985
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 219 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,774,733 ratings — published 1953
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 218 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,779,267 ratings — published 1960
The Midnight Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 210 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,370,935 ratings — published 2020
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 190 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,767,816 ratings — published 1993
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 182 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,498,282 ratings — published 1988
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 173 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,838,233 ratings — published 2005
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,047,030 ratings — published 1932
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,646,055 ratings — published 2012
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,156,596 ratings — published 1954
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,973,653 ratings — published 1999
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,815,872 ratings — published 2018
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 117 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,740,138 ratings — published 2008
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.37 — 854,149 ratings — published 1946
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,231,556 ratings — published 2011
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.45 — 998,638 ratings — published 2017
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,446,341 ratings — published 2003
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,423,095 ratings — published 1943
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,830,631 ratings — published 1890
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,356,490 ratings — published 1942
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.47 — 2,989,174 ratings — published 2009
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 104 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.41 — 785,682 ratings — published 2016
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.85 — 834,664 ratings — published 2005
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.23 — 778,918 ratings — published 1966
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,816,612 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 — 1,176,601 ratings — published 1997
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,709,551 ratings — published 2007
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,740,173 ratings — published 2001
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.19 — 855,740 ratings — published 2008
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,845,795 ratings — published 1951
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,188,362 ratings — published 1963
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,467,188 ratings — published 1969
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,019,514 ratings — published 2007
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,817,187 ratings — published 1925
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,130,178 ratings — published 1947
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,347,709 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 — 1,582,407 ratings — published 2003
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,381,221 ratings — published 1915
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 78 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.35 — 4,083,021 ratings — published 2009
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 77 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,501,520 ratings — published 2016
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,731,651 ratings — published 2005
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 74 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,462,067 ratings — published 1985
The Screwtape Letters (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 73 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.27 — 509,671 ratings — published 1942
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,790,726 ratings — published 1937
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,269,461 ratings — published 2004
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.73 — 972,999 ratings — published 2023
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 70 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,656,959 ratings — published 2010
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.49 — 790,795 ratings — published 2016
“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”
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