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Mind-Benders: Fiction that Hurts Your Head

Description: What are books that hurt your brain, but in a good way? Thumbs down those books you wouldn't recommend.
Based on tag: mind-bender

Rank Title Author Added

1

House of Leaves

by Mark Z. Danielewski

15,822 members

377 reviews

4.1

3 Members: acenturyofsleep, fundevogel, ManWithAnAgenda

2

The Amber Spyglass

by Philip Pullman

23,685 members

409 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

A Wind in the Door

by Madeleine L'Engle

12,757 members

123 reviews

3.9

2 Members: wifilibrarian, ahef1963

4

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

44,478 members

1,334 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

5

by Mary Shelley

42,910 members

714 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

6

A Wrinkle in Time

by Madeleine L'Engle

39,711 members

963 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

7

Northern Lights

by Philip Pullman

36,356 members

744 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

8

The Magician's Nephew

29,544 members

366 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

9

The Subtle Knife

by Philip Pullman

24,995 members

355 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

10

by Chuck Palahniuk

19,359 members

325 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

11

19,232 members

494 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ahef1963

12

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

by Robert M. Pirsig

18,865 members

287 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

13

by Margaret Atwood

17,020 members

538 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

14

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

15,779 members

251 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

15

by José Saramago

13,096 members

391 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

16

A Swiftly Tilting Planet

by Madeleine L'Engle

12,100 members

108 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

17

by Stephen King

10,877 members

185 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

18

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

by Shirley Jackson

8,224 members

425 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

19

by Jorge Luis Borges

7,640 members

114 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: fundevogel

20

The Wasp Factory

7,123 members

204 reviews

3.8

Member: fundevogel

21

The Lathe of Heaven

by Ursula K. Le Guin

6,571 members

197 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

22

by John Gardner

6,062 members

108 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

23

Stories of Your Life and Others

5,147 members

234 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

24

The Call of the Wild / White Fang

4,960 members

36 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

25

Life: A User's Manual

by Georges Perec

3,814 members

55 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: Charon07

26

John Dies at the End

3,646 members

177 reviews

3.8

Member: fundevogel

27

by Pauline Réage

3,645 members

81 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: fundevogel

28

by Kazuo Ishiguro

3,578 members

82 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

29

The Raw Shark Texts: A Novel

2,663 members

118 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: fundevogel

30

by José Saramago

2,464 members

59 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

31

Wittgenstein's Mistress

by David Markson

1,533 members

35 reviews

3.9

Member: Charon07

32

by Nick Harkaway

786 members

30 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Charon07

33

The Familiar, Volume 1: One Rainy Day in May

by Mark Z. Danielewski

744 members

19 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

34

43,765 members

1,013 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963,Charon07

35

by Philip K. Dick

7,649 members

162 reviews

4

36

A Scanner Darkly

by Philip K. Dick

7,621 members

144 reviews

4

37

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

by Philip K. Dick

19,405 members

476 reviews

4

38

All Quiet on the Western Front

by Erich Maria Remarque

19,158 members

403 reviews

4.1

39

by Stephenie Meyer

18,470 members

657 reviews

3.9

40

The Girl on the Train

by Paula Hawkins

17,920 members

1,121 reviews

½ 3.6

41

The Time Machine

17,794 members

339 reviews

½ 3.7

42

The Vampire Lestat

13,571 members

127 reviews

3.9

43

The Tale of the Body Thief

9,050 members

61 reviews

½ 3.5

44

by Madeleine L'Engle

8,077 members

64 reviews

3.9

45

by Terry Goodkind

7,261 members

68 reviews

3.9

46

6,514 members

394 reviews

4.1

47

Faith of the Fallen

by Terry Goodkind

5,231 members

36 reviews

3.8

48

An Acceptable Time

by Madeleine L'Engle

4,892 members

45 reviews

½ 3.7

49

by Philip K. Dick

4,527 members

76 reviews

3.9

50

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

by Philip K. Dick

4,366 members

73 reviews

3.9

51

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

by Tennessee Williams

2,966 members

32 reviews

4.1

52

The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume 4: Minority Report

by Philip K. Dick

2,520 members

19 reviews

3.9

53

2,350 members

187 reviews

½ 3.7

54

The Lost Years of Merlin

by T. A. Barron

2,324 members

28 reviews

3.9

55

The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles

by Julie Andrews

2,322 members

35 reviews

4.2

56

by Margaret Weis

2,225 members

17 reviews

3.8

57

The Lost City of Faar

by D. J. MacHale

2,212 members

26 reviews

4

58

Into the Labyrinth

by Margaret Weis

2,097 members

12 reviews

3.8

59

by A. G. Howard

2,094 members

156 reviews

3.9

60

The Seventh Gate

by Margaret Weis

2,069 members

11 reviews

3.8

61

Travels in the Scriptorium

2,053 members

67 reviews

3.2

62

The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume 1: Beyond Lies the Wub

by Philip K. Dick

1,901 members

28 reviews

4

63

by Robert Bloch

1,804 members

59 reviews

3.9

64

The Wizard's Dilemma

1,623 members

18 reviews

3.9

65

1,553 members

20 reviews

3.9

66

by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

1,456 members

34 reviews

4

67

by David Clement-Davies

1,214 members

22 reviews

4.1

68

Shattered Mirror

by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

1,071 members

12 reviews

3.8

69

God's Debris: A Thought Experiment

946 members

24 reviews

½ 3.6

70

The Garden of Abdul Gasazi

by Chris Van Allsburg

927 members

69 reviews

4.1

71

by Charles de Lint

844 members

16 reviews

½ 3.6

72

The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume 5: We Can Remember It For You Wholesale

by Philip K. Dick

662 members

9 reviews

4.1

73

The Affirmation

by Christopher Priest

623 members

24 reviews

3.9

74

The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume 2: Second Variety

by Philip K. Dick

591 members

12 reviews

4

75

538 members

9 reviews

½ 3.6

76

The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume 3: The Father-Thing

by Philip K. Dick

527 members

7 reviews

4

77

by Christopher Pike

526 members

12 reviews

½ 3.5

78

Legal Drug, Volume 1

480 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

79

Legal Drug, Volume 2

385 members

1 review

½ 3.7

80

The Starlight Crystal

by Christopher Pike

361 members

7 reviews

½ 3.7

81

Legal Drug, Volume 3

356 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

82

305 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

83

Synchronicity: The Bridge Between Matter and Mind

272 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

84

The Night Class

by Tom Piccirilli

145 members

6 reviews

2.8

85

Three Early Novels

by Philip K. Dick

124 members

2 reviews

½ 3.4

86

Vengeance of the Demon

by Diana Rowland

119 members

9 reviews

3.9

87

The Everlasting

110 members

4 reviews

½ 3.4

88

Housebroken: A Horror Thriller

29 members

6 reviews

3.8

89

The Second Jim Thompson Omnibus

by Jim Thompson

20 members

4.1

90

Held Hostage: A Story of Love & Mental Illness

by Bonnie McKeating

9 members

2 reviews

5

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