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Thoughtful Books
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The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,671,041 ratings — published 1988
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,572,378 ratings — published 2020
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,629,939 ratings — published 1948
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,935,607 ratings — published 2005
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,467,857 ratings — published 1942
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,038,820 ratings — published 1999
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 4.02 — 820,871 ratings — published 2003
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,959,094 ratings — published 1951
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,238,586 ratings — published 1997
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,500,579 ratings — published 1985
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,693,486 ratings — published 1945
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,922,103 ratings — published 1963
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,016,910 ratings — published 1960
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,030,368 ratings — published 2014
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,272,081 ratings — published 1963
A Man Called Ove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,251,273 ratings — published 2012
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,772,380 ratings — published 2001
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,860,193 ratings — published 1993
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,121,850 ratings — published 1866
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,420,711 ratings — published 2022
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,811,362 ratings — published 2012
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 4.37 — 911,968 ratings — published 1946
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,492,210 ratings — published 1915
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 4.06 — 599,377 ratings — published 1995
Remarkably Bright Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,428,459 ratings — published 2022
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 3.65 — 738,781 ratings — published 2015
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,938,765 ratings — published 2018
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,546,726 ratings — published 1943
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,041,556 ratings — published 1925
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,119,414 ratings — published 1932
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 4.09 — 897,732 ratings — published 1922
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,617,765 ratings — published 2003
The Wedding People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,257,863 ratings — published 2024
Beartown (Beartown, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 4.28 — 634,676 ratings — published 2016
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,740,599 ratings — published 2016
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 4.17 — 604,161 ratings — published 2011
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 3.85 — 887,178 ratings — published 2005
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,898,316 ratings — published 1937
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 4.19 — 880,367 ratings — published 2008
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,263,872 ratings — published 1954
Beautiful World, Where Are You (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 3.52 — 508,525 ratings — published 2021
Anxious People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 4.16 — 850,571 ratings — published 2019
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 4.40 — 372,556 ratings — published 2015
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 4.41 — 833,000 ratings — published 2016
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 4.49 — 223,026 ratings — published 2014
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 4.06 — 633,379 ratings — published 2014
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,946,113 ratings — published 1890
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 4.30 — 523,699 ratings — published 1943
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,827,306 ratings — published 2012
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as thoughtful)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,769,880 ratings — published 2005
“But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives.”
― Tender Is the Night
― Tender Is the Night












