Controversial books that will get you thinking

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1984
1984 4.20 avg rating — 5,226,279 ratings
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Brave New World
Brave New World 3.99 avg rating — 2,015,682 ratings
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Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies 3.70 avg rating — 3,117,465 ratings
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The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye 3.80 avg rating — 3,800,476 ratings
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Lolita
Lolita 3.87 avg rating — 919,220 ratings
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A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 753,915 ratings
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Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)
Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 232,266 ratings
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Catch-22
Catch-22 3.99 avg rating — 873,330 ratings
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Atlas Shrugged
Atlas Shrugged
by: Ayn Rand
3.69 avg rating — 402,790 ratings
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The Fountainhead
The Fountainhead
by: Ayn Rand
3.89 avg rating — 333,852 ratings
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The Selfish Gene
The Selfish Gene 4.16 avg rating — 189,059 ratings
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The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto
by: Karl Marx
3.67 avg rating — 189,251 ratings
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The Origin of Species
The Origin of Species 4.01 avg rating — 120,186 ratings
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Fight Club
Fight Club 4.18 avg rating — 629,429 ratings
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The Lovely Bones
The Lovely Bones 3.86 avg rating — 2,439,513 ratings
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All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front 4.10 avg rating — 505,048 ratings
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Candide
Candide
by: Voltaire
3.76 avg rating — 294,525 ratings
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The Prince
The Prince 3.84 avg rating — 371,402 ratings
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The Satanic Verses
The Satanic Verses 3.71 avg rating — 70,302 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium #1)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium #1) 4.17 avg rating — 3,378,431 ratings
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The Interpretation of Dreams
The Interpretation of Dreams 3.84 avg rating — 79,565 ratings
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Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text 3.46 avg rating — 96,897 ratings
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Anthem
Anthem
by: Ayn Rand
3.61 avg rating — 164,228 ratings
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Petals on the Wind (Dollanganger, #2)
Petals on the Wind (Dollanganger, #2) 3.82 avg rating — 71,481 ratings
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If There Be Thorns (Dollanganger, #3)
If There Be Thorns (Dollanganger, #3) 3.78 avg rating — 53,554 ratings
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Forbidden
Forbidden 3.96 avg rating — 75,397 ratings
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The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1) 4.03 avg rating — 1,594,248 ratings
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Utopia
Utopia 3.55 avg rating — 80,685 ratings
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Johnny Got His Gun
Johnny Got His Gun 4.21 avg rating — 47,420 ratings
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Stranger in a Strange Land
Stranger in a Strange Land 3.92 avg rating — 323,281 ratings
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Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong
Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,111 ratings
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The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
The Forever War (The Forever War, #1) 4.14 avg rating — 176,931 ratings
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A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present 4.08 avg rating — 259,693 ratings
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A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1) 4.14 avg rating — 455,049 ratings
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American Psycho
American Psycho 3.80 avg rating — 349,179 ratings
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Crash
Crash 3.59 avg rating — 28,421 ratings
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The Giver (The Giver, #1)
The Giver (The Giver, #1) 4.12 avg rating — 2,733,129 ratings
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Campaign Battle: Control the Masses
Campaign Battle: Control the Masses 4.04 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion 4.20 avg rating — 63,327 ratings
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Capitalism and Freedom
Capitalism and Freedom 3.90 avg rating — 14,797 ratings
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Seeds of Yesterday (Dollanganger, #4)
Seeds of Yesterday (Dollanganger, #4) 3.84 avg rating — 43,526 ratings
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The Crucible
The Crucible 3.61 avg rating — 452,159 ratings
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Gone Girl
Gone Girl 4.14 avg rating — 3,358,507 ratings
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Room
Room 4.08 avg rating — 826,340 ratings
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Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost 3.85 avg rating — 177,949 ratings
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream 4.07 avg rating — 370,589 ratings
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic 4.39 avg rating — 28,867 ratings
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Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade
Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade 4.10 avg rating — 1,451,287 ratings
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler 4.02 avg rating — 108,214 ratings
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The Stepford Wives
The Stepford Wives
by: Ira Levin
3.87 avg rating — 51,735 ratings
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Deathbird Stories
Deathbird Stories 4.14 avg rating — 4,579 ratings
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Ask the Dust (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #3)
Ask the Dust (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #3) 4.10 avg rating — 38,234 ratings
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Junky
Junky 3.85 avg rating — 69,884 ratings
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Wake the Wicked
Wake the Wicked 3.45 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Requiem for a Dream
Requiem for a Dream 4.11 avg rating — 63,285 ratings
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Twilight of the Idols / The Anti-Christ
Twilight of the Idols / The Anti-Christ 4.15 avg rating — 9,533 ratings
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Geek Love
Geek Love 3.95 avg rating — 71,406 ratings
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History as Mystery
History as Mystery 4.19 avg rating — 310 ratings
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Howl and Other Poems
Howl and Other Poems 4.13 avg rating — 117,397 ratings
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Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women 4.04 avg rating — 9,233 ratings
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Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings
Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings 3.70 avg rating — 3,826 ratings
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The Case for God
The Case for God 3.85 avg rating — 9,250 ratings
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The Silver Linings Playbook
The Silver Linings Playbook 3.98 avg rating — 161,897 ratings
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Cabal
Cabal 3.92 avg rating — 22,150 ratings
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Trainspotting
Trainspotting 4.11 avg rating — 174,911 ratings
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Last Exit to Brooklyn
Last Exit to Brooklyn 3.92 avg rating — 28,774 ratings
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Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative
Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative 3.83 avg rating — 1,772 ratings
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In the Flesh (Books of Blood #5)
In the Flesh (Books of Blood #5) 4.02 avg rating — 8,401 ratings
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The Books of Blood (Books of Blood #1-3)
The Books of Blood (Books of Blood #1-3) 4.19 avg rating — 29,451 ratings
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Delta of Venus
Delta of Venus 3.61 avg rating — 24,714 ratings
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water 4.28 avg rating — 11,658 ratings
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The Cornelius Quartet: The Final Program, A Cure for Cancer, The English Assassin, The Condition of Muzak
The Cornelius Quartet: The Final Program, A Cure for Cancer, The English Assassin, The Condition of Muzak 3.65 avg rating — 1,201 ratings
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Atonement
Atonement 3.95 avg rating — 551,978 ratings
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Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness
Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness 3.58 avg rating — 7,465 ratings
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The Complete Books
The Complete Books 4.08 avg rating — 366 ratings
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Hitler's Niece
Hitler's Niece 3.25 avg rating — 1,278 ratings
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What Is Left the Daughter
What Is Left the Daughter 3.47 avg rating — 2,833 ratings
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Tales of Ordinary Madness
Tales of Ordinary Madness 3.85 avg rating — 30,139 ratings
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The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories
The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories 3.88 avg rating — 11,332 ratings
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High-Rise
High-Rise 3.60 avg rating — 36,509 ratings
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Lost Girls
Lost Girls 3.60 avg rating — 6,063 ratings
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The First Immortal: A Novel Of The Future
The First Immortal: A Novel Of The Future 3.87 avg rating — 542 ratings
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Amalgam Nation
Amalgam Nation it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Mythbusting the Cult of Confucius: What the Chinese Really Are, How to Understand Them and Why We Need to
Mythbusting the Cult of Confucius: What the Chinese Really Are, How to Understand Them and Why We Need to 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Blood Gravity
Blood Gravity 3.96 avg rating — 102 ratings
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The Last Time I Died
The Last Time I Died
by: Joe Nelms
3.80 avg rating — 362 ratings
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The Acid Diary
The Acid Diary 4.21 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Live and Let Learn
Live and Let Learn 1.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society
This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society 3.98 avg rating — 2,436 ratings
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Is Your Child Safe At School?
Is Your Child Safe At School? it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Search For Intelligent Life on Earth: A Story of Love
The Search For Intelligent Life on Earth: A Story of Love 4.76 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How
Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How 3.93 avg rating — 597 ratings
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Neon Empire
Neon Empire
by: Drew Minh
3.28 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Revolution: 80 Days
Revolution: 80 Days 4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Civilization, Society and Religions: Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego/Future of an Illusion/Civilization and Its Discontents
Civilization, Society and Religions: Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego/Future of an Illusion/Civilization and Its Discontents 3.96 avg rating — 104 ratings
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Socialism with Chinese Characteristics. A Guide for Foreigners
Socialism with Chinese Characteristics. A Guide for Foreigners 4.43 avg rating — 90 ratings
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The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering
The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering 4.12 avg rating — 3,679 ratings
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The Mirror of Love
The Mirror of Love 3.87 avg rating — 510 ratings
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Something in the Woods is Taking People
Something in the Woods is Taking People 3.55 avg rating — 420 ratings
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Kings of the Jungle
Kings of the Jungle 3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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