Best Books That Challenge The Status Quo

1.
A Conceptual Circus
A Conceptual Circus 4.48 avg rating — 284 ratings
2.
The Man Without Qualities
The Man Without Qualities 4.19 avg rating — 7,191 ratings
3.
Demian
Demian 4.14 avg rating — 129,493 ratings
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Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm: Beyond the Doors of Perception into the Dreaming of Earth
Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm: Beyond the Doors of Perception into the Dreaming of Earth 4.49 avg rating — 505 ratings
4.
Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters
Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters 4.14 avg rating — 252 ratings
6.
Anxiety
Anxiety 4.17 avg rating — 41 ratings
7.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
by: Ken Kesey
4.20 avg rating — 767,687 ratings
8.
Exotic Neurotic
Exotic Neurotic 3.71 avg rating — 2,290 ratings
9.
Angelica and Francesca
Angelica and Francesca 4.57 avg rating — 407 ratings
10.
Simulacra and Simulation
Simulacra and Simulation really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15,971 ratings
11.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Thus Spoke Zarathustra 4.07 avg rating — 169,548 ratings
12.
Man's Search for Meaning
Man's Search for Meaning 4.37 avg rating — 832,562 ratings
13.
Candide
Candide
by: Voltaire
3.76 avg rating — 294,545 ratings
14.
Sophie’s World
Sophie’s World 3.97 avg rating — 275,148 ratings
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Bearing False Witness: Debunking Centuries of Anti-Catholic History
Bearing False Witness: Debunking Centuries of Anti-Catholic History 4.33 avg rating — 929 ratings
16.
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays 4.22 avg rating — 63,611 ratings
17.
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead 4.19 avg rating — 78,036 ratings
18.
The Society of the Spectacle
The Society of the Spectacle 4.03 avg rating — 22,635 ratings
18.
The Cadaver Factory
The Cadaver Factory 4.40 avg rating — 282 ratings
20.
Confessions
Confessions 3.59 avg rating — 9,159 ratings
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Cybernetics: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
Cybernetics: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 746 ratings
22.
To the Lighthouse
To the Lighthouse 3.81 avg rating — 207,210 ratings
23.
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness 3.43 avg rating — 545,783 ratings
24.
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays 4.06 avg rating — 17,587 ratings
25.
It Can't Happen Here
It Can't Happen Here 3.80 avg rating — 22,849 ratings
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The Advanced Genius Theory: Are They Out of Their Minds or Ahead of Their Time?
The Advanced Genius Theory: Are They Out of Their Minds or Ahead of Their Time? 3.56 avg rating — 405 ratings
25.
4play
4play 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
25.
Talks with the Moon King
Talks with the Moon King really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
25.
Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China
Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China 3.98 avg rating — 631 ratings
25.
The Color Purple
The Color Purple 4.27 avg rating — 737,260 ratings
25.
Sex and Sushi: Great Married Sex
Sex and Sushi: Great Married Sex 3.78 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Thief in the Night
Thief in the Night 4.43 avg rating — 331 ratings
25.
Long Live Phoenixes
Long Live Phoenixes 4.65 avg rating — 20 ratings
25.
Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe 4.14 avg rating — 58 ratings
25.
Hair Transplant Real: Revealing the Illusion
Hair Transplant Real: Revealing the Illusion it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media
Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media 4.53 avg rating — 805 ratings
37.
The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971
The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971 4.08 avg rating — 1,275 ratings
37.
Libidacoria: IN A PLAIN BROWN WRAPPER
Libidacoria: IN A PLAIN BROWN WRAPPER 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Provocateur
The Provocateur 3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings
37.
The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality
The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality 4.04 avg rating — 2,106 ratings
37.
Critique of Cynical Reason
Critique of Cynical Reason 4.22 avg rating — 637 ratings
37.
Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord
Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord 4.11 avg rating — 4,949 ratings
37.
Atlas Shrugged
Atlas Shrugged
by: Ayn Rand
3.69 avg rating — 402,805 ratings
37.
The Crisis of the Modern World
The Crisis of the Modern World 4.10 avg rating — 2,155 ratings
37.
The Hidden Words Of Bahá'u'lláh
The Hidden Words Of Bahá'u'lláh 4.57 avg rating — 571 ratings
46.
Howl and Other Poems
Howl and Other Poems 4.13 avg rating — 117,401 ratings
46.
Logan's Run
Logan's Run 3.64 avg rating — 12,700 ratings
46.
The Fourth Phase of Water: Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor
The Fourth Phase of Water: Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor 4.31 avg rating — 369 ratings
46.
The Women's Room
The Women's Room 3.99 avg rating — 9,268 ratings
46.
Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand 3.76 avg rating — 5,148 ratings
46.
The Reign of Quantity & the Signs of the Times
The Reign of Quantity & the Signs of the Times 4.33 avg rating — 667 ratings
46.
The Kitáb-i-Íqán: The Book of Certitude
The Kitáb-i-Íqán: The Book of Certitude 4.64 avg rating — 424 ratings
46.
The White Tiger
The White Tiger 3.77 avg rating — 200,099 ratings
54.
Confessions
Confessions 3.99 avg rating — 71,272 ratings
54.
The Gate to Women's Country
The Gate to Women's Country 4.06 avg rating — 13,951 ratings
54.
What's Wrong with the World
What's Wrong with the World 4.04 avg rating — 2,720 ratings
57.
Being and Time
Being and Time 4.05 avg rating — 27,069 ratings
57.
Orthodoxy
Orthodoxy 4.19 avg rating — 41,133 ratings
59.
House of Leaves
House of Leaves 4.09 avg rating — 191,485 ratings
59.
The Decline of the West
The Decline of the West 4.06 avg rating — 2,169 ratings
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The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past
The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past 3.89 avg rating — 221 ratings
62.
No Exit and Three Other Plays
No Exit and Three Other Plays 4.08 avg rating — 29,814 ratings
62.
The Third Choice: Islam, dhimmitude and freedom
The Third Choice: Islam, dhimmitude and freedom 4.34 avg rating — 62 ratings
64.
Nausea
Nausea 3.93 avg rating — 134,170 ratings
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Existentialism is a Humanism
Existentialism is a Humanism 3.98 avg rating — 44,096 ratings
66.
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism 4.29 avg rating — 51,941 ratings
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Narcissus and Goldmund
Narcissus and Goldmund 4.22 avg rating — 69,818 ratings
68.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 3.98 avg rating — 122,142 ratings
69.
Lolita
Lolita 3.87 avg rating — 919,299 ratings
70.
Endgame
Endgame 3.79 avg rating — 23,764 ratings
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia 3.46 avg rating — 6,728 ratings
72.
Waiting for Godot
Waiting for Godot 3.84 avg rating — 217,123 ratings
73.
The Idiot
The Idiot 4.21 avg rating — 207,669 ratings
74.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 3.64 avg rating — 161,009 ratings
75.
The Bell Jar
The Bell Jar 4.05 avg rating — 1,154,060 ratings
76.
Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment 4.28 avg rating — 1,024,775 ratings
77.
The Solitude of Prime Numbers
The Solitude of Prime Numbers 3.65 avg rating — 81,957 ratings
78.
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women 4.04 avg rating — 9,233 ratings
79.
The Beauty Myth
The Beauty Myth 3.91 avg rating — 30,478 ratings
80.
Wonder (Wonder, #1)
Wonder (Wonder, #1) 4.36 avg rating — 1,169,974 ratings
81.
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit 3.88 avg rating — 3,664 ratings
82.
Last Man in Tower
Last Man in Tower 3.57 avg rating — 7,859 ratings