Great Fiction for the Intellectual Crowd

1.
Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 3.97 avg rating β€” 2,718,962 ratings
2.
King Street Run
King Street Run
by: V.R. Ling
4.83 avg rating β€” 12 ratings
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The Red Tent
The Red Tent 4.20 avg rating β€” 623,986 ratings
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East of Eden
East of Eden 4.43 avg rating β€” 602,227 ratings
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Pieces: A Life in Eight Movements and a Prelude
Pieces: A Life in Eight Movements and a Prelude 3.66 avg rating β€” 38 ratings
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Silver Sparrow
Silver Sparrow 3.90 avg rating β€” 45,092 ratings
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Wild Seed (Patternmaster, #1)
Wild Seed (Patternmaster, #1) 4.21 avg rating β€” 38,337 ratings
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Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
by: John Gray
3.93 avg rating β€” 4,888 ratings
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
Go Tell It on the Mountain 4.05 avg rating β€” 78,208 ratings
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Another Country
Another Country 4.30 avg rating β€” 32,343 ratings
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Midnight’s Children
Midnight’s Children 3.98 avg rating β€” 130,713 ratings
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The Way I Found Her
The Way I Found Her 3.61 avg rating β€” 1,849 ratings
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Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter 3.83 avg rating β€” 45,894 ratings
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Spiritus Mundi - The Romance (Spiritus Mundi, #2)
Spiritus Mundi - The Romance (Spiritus Mundi, #2) 3.58 avg rating β€” 24 ratings
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The Secret History
The Secret History 4.16 avg rating β€” 950,568 ratings
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Earthly Powers
Earthly Powers 4.56 avg rating β€” 78 ratings
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Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment 4.28 avg rating β€” 1,024,625 ratings
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The Light Between Oceans
The Light Between Oceans 4.04 avg rating β€” 473,461 ratings
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GΓΆdel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
GΓΆdel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid 4.29 avg rating β€” 51,681 ratings
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Russell Wiley Is Out to Lunch
Russell Wiley Is Out to Lunch 3.37 avg rating β€” 406 ratings
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Testimony
Testimony 3.59 avg rating β€” 30,948 ratings
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Spiritus Mundi (Spiritus Mundi, #1)
Spiritus Mundi (Spiritus Mundi, #1) 4.09 avg rating β€” 22 ratings
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The Maestro, The Magistrate and The Mathematician
The Maestro, The Magistrate and The Mathematician 3.49 avg rating β€” 222 ratings
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The Midnight Watch
The Midnight Watch 3.81 avg rating β€” 4,521 ratings
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Animal Liberation
Animal Liberation 4.30 avg rating β€” 11,080 ratings
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Lucia, Lucia
Lucia, Lucia 3.98 avg rating β€” 20,746 ratings
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Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World's Greatest Physicists
Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World's Greatest Physicists 3.97 avg rating β€” 633 ratings
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The Reader
The Reader 3.78 avg rating β€” 226,231 ratings
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The Periodic Table: A Field Guide to the Elements
The Periodic Table: A Field Guide to the Elements 4.12 avg rating β€” 362 ratings
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The Coffee Trader
The Coffee Trader 3.75 avg rating β€” 9,178 ratings
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Solaris
Solaris 3.99 avg rating β€” 124,299 ratings
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All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front 4.10 avg rating β€” 505,055 ratings
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Man, Beast, and Zombie: What Science Can and Cannot Tell Us about Human Nature
Man, Beast, and Zombie: What Science Can and Cannot Tell Us about Human Nature really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 65 ratings
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Nineteen Minutes
Nineteen Minutes 4.17 avg rating β€” 409,099 ratings
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His Master's Voice
His Master's Voice 4.08 avg rating β€” 5,430 ratings
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Generals Die in Bed
Generals Die in Bed 3.82 avg rating β€” 1,632 ratings
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The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War
The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War 3.85 avg rating β€” 1,080 ratings
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Kindred
Kindred 4.31 avg rating β€” 258,331 ratings
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The Music of Distant Spheres
The Music of Distant Spheres 2.67 avg rating β€” 3 ratings
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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics 3.99 avg rating β€” 64,373 ratings
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Seven Days in May
Seven Days in May
by: Kim Izzo
3.89 avg rating β€” 1,795 ratings
42.
The Mortal Storm
The Mortal Storm 4.24 avg rating β€” 96 ratings
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Lilith's Brood (Xenogenesis, #1-3)
Lilith's Brood (Xenogenesis, #1-3) 4.37 avg rating β€” 21,511 ratings
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The Idea of Justice
The Idea of Justice 4.02 avg rating β€” 2,027 ratings
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World 4.32 avg rating β€” 28,488 ratings
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A Wicked Company: The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment
A Wicked Company: The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment 4.11 avg rating β€” 738 ratings
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) 3.97 avg rating β€” 476,961 ratings
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Journey to the Centre of the Earth: The Remarkable Voyage of Scientific Discovery into the Heart of Our World
Journey to the Centre of the Earth: The Remarkable Voyage of Scientific Discovery into the Heart of Our World 3.44 avg rating β€” 123 ratings
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Linden Hills
Linden Hills 4.04 avg rating β€” 3,202 ratings
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The Genius of Birds
The Genius of Birds 4.04 avg rating β€” 13,005 ratings
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The Women of Brewster Place
The Women of Brewster Place 4.20 avg rating β€” 21,533 ratings
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Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay
Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay 4.30 avg rating β€” 131 ratings
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Mama Day
Mama Day 4.19 avg rating β€” 11,153 ratings
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Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain
Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 347 ratings
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How to Be Good
How to Be Good 3.22 avg rating β€” 57,453 ratings
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The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft
The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft 4.24 avg rating β€” 2,135 ratings
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The Periodic Table
The Periodic Table 4.14 avg rating β€” 18,744 ratings
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The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)
The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1) 4.13 avg rating β€” 211,208 ratings
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Adventures in Human Being: A Grand Tour from the Cranium to the Calcaneum
Adventures in Human Being: A Grand Tour from the Cranium to the Calcaneum 3.90 avg rating β€” 4,432 ratings
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Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored
Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored 3.67 avg rating β€” 433 ratings
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Man's Search for Meaning
Man's Search for Meaning 4.37 avg rating β€” 832,472 ratings
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All Life is Problem Solving
All Life is Problem Solving 4.05 avg rating β€” 713 ratings
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Wholeness and the Implicate Order
Wholeness and the Implicate Order 4.24 avg rating β€” 1,419 ratings
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Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology
Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology 4.20 avg rating β€” 916 ratings
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Mindful Universe: Quantum Mechanics and the Participating Observer
Mindful Universe: Quantum Mechanics and the Participating Observer 4.08 avg rating β€” 93 ratings
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Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security
Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security 4.11 avg rating β€” 1,050 ratings
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Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery 4.25 avg rating β€” 41,361 ratings
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Civil Resistance and Power Politics : The Experience of Non-Violent Action from Gandhi to the Present
Civil Resistance and Power Politics : The Experience of Non-Violent Action from Gandhi to the Present 3.88 avg rating β€” 26 ratings
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For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World's Favourite Drink
For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World's Favourite Drink 3.78 avg rating β€” 4,227 ratings
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On Fear
On Fear 4.33 avg rating β€” 905 ratings
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Tao Te Ching
Tao Te Ching
by: Lao Tzu
4.29 avg rating β€” 176,927 ratings
72.
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text 3.46 avg rating β€” 96,898 ratings