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Most thought-provoking novels

Description: What are some novels that really make you think?

Rank Title Author Added

1

40,471 members

1,590 reviews

4.2

10 Members: _Zoe_, foggidawn, Hibou8, laketa, bestem, dste, cej1027, ahef1963, danielsons1, ManWithAnAgenda, ,

2

Flowers for Algernon

by Daniel Keyes

15,917 members

383 reviews

4.1

7 Members: DaynaRT, _Zoe_, norabelle414, javagal, dste, cej1027, ahef1963

3

Tuck Everlasting

by Natalie Babbitt

15,362 members

548 reviews

3.9

6 Members: _Zoe_, foggidawn, EmScape, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

by Scott Westerfeld

14,158 members

663 reviews

3.9

4 Members: bestem, 2wonderY, cej1027, ahef1963

5

26,616 members

629 reviews

3.9

4 Members: lahochstetler, norabelle414, ahef1963, lyharian,

6

1,463 members

30 reviews

3.9

3 Members: anglemark, Hibou8, ahef1963

7

The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro

16,473 members

480 reviews

4.2

3 Members: foggidawn, ahef1963, kara.shamy

8

Brave New World (New Longman Literature)

by Aldous Huxley

114 members

2 reviews

4

3 Members: dste, cej1027, ahef1963

9

by Cory Doctorow

5,618 members

398 reviews

4

3 Members: _Zoe_, foggidawn, kara.shamy,ManWithAnAgenda

10

The Windup Girl

by Paolo Bacigalupi

6,251 members

304 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: _Zoe_, aulsmith, kara.shamy,anglemark
Explanations: aulsmith: Great imagining of post-climate change world.

11

43,766 members

1,013 reviews

3.9

2 Members: KimarieBee, kara.shamy

12

by M. T. Anderson

5,176 members

434 reviews

3.8

2 Members: kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

13

by Kurt Vonnegut

22,425 members

301 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

873 members

20 reviews

3.8

Member: aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith: Personal life, physics, politics -- There's a whole lot here.

15

The Blindness of the Heart

by Julia Franck

731 members

24 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: AmourFou

16

Death of an Ordinary Man

334 members

10 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

17

Memories of a Butterfly

7 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: exvano

18

by Lloyd C. Douglas

122 members

1 review

3.9

Member: 2wonderY

19

Concrete, Volume 7: The Human Dilemma

by Paul Chadwick

82 members

1 review

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

20

by Bernhard Schlink

13,468 members

395 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: norabelle414

21

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

by Richard Bach

4,693 members

77 reviews

3.9

Member: 2wonderY

22

Exiles in America

by Christopher Bram

119 members

2 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith: Lots of different kinds of exiles to think about.

23

The City and the Stars

by Arthur C. Clarke

2,998 members

58 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

24

The Dispossessed

by Ursula K. Le Guin

10,783 members

268 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

25

by Thomas Pierce

150 members

3 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

26

Don't Eat This Book : Fast Food and the Supersizing of America

by Morgan Spurlock

603 members

23 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: SqueakyChu,aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith : not a novel

27

Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants

by Douglas W. Tallamy

580 members

15 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: SqueakyChu,aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith : not a novel

28

5,939 members

422 reviews

½ 3.4

29

by Michel Faber

2,475 members

122 reviews

½ 3.7

30

The Eye of the Heron

by Ursula K. Le Guin

982 members

18 reviews

½ 3.5

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Started: _Zoe_
January 2012
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