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Most thought-provoking novels

Description: What are some novels that really make you think?
Members: 26 participating members
ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, cej1027, kara.shamy, _Zoe_, foggidawn, aulsmith, 2wonderY, norabelle414, dste, bestem, SqueakyChu, Hibou8, javagal, laketa, DaynaRT, danielsons1, EmScape, lahochstetler, lyharian, KimarieBee, anglemark, AmourFou, exvano

Rank Title Author Added

1

38,848 members

1,559 reviews

4.2

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

2

Flowers for Algernon

by Daniel Keyes

15,297 members

372 reviews

4.1

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

3

Tuck Everlasting

by Natalie Babbitt

14,710 members

545 reviews

3.9

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

4

by Scott Westerfeld

13,771 members

643 reviews

3.9

4 Members: bestem, 2wonderY, cej1027, ahef1963

5

25,981 members

614 reviews

3.9

4 Members: lahochstetler, norabelle414, ahef1963, lyharian,

6

1,421 members

29 reviews

3.9

3 Members: anglemark, Hibou8, ahef1963

7

The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro

15,931 members

462 reviews

4.2

3 Members: foggidawn, ahef1963, kara.shamy

8

Brave New World (New Longman Literature)

by Aldous Huxley

112 members

2 reviews

4

3 Members: dste, cej1027, ahef1963

9

by Cory Doctorow

5,505 members

389 reviews

4

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

10

The Windup Girl

by Paolo Bacigalupi

6,098 members

297 reviews

½ 3.7

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

11

42,877 members

998 reviews

3.9

2 Members: KimarieBee, kara.shamy

12

by M. T. Anderson

5,072 members

430 reviews

3.8

2 Members: kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

13

by Kurt Vonnegut

21,897 members

293 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

860 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

716 members

24 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: AmourFou

16

Death of an Ordinary Man

329 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

117 members

1 review

3.9

Member: 2wonderY

19

Concrete, Volume 7: The Human Dilemma

by Paul Chadwick

79 members

2 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

20

by Bernhard Schlink

13,168 members

390 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: norabelle414

21

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

by Richard Bach

4,590 members

75 reviews

3.9

Member: 2wonderY

22

Exiles in America

by Christopher Bram

118 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

2,928 members

55 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

24

The Dispossessed

by Ursula K. Le Guin

10,410 members

261 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

25

by Thomas Pierce

144 members

3 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

26

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

by Morgan Spurlock

597 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

544 members

15 reviews

½ 4.5

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

28

5,681 members

409 reviews

½ 3.4

29

by Michel Faber

2,420 members

119 reviews

½ 3.7

30

The Eye of the Heron

by Ursula K. Le Guin

944 members

16 reviews

½ 3.4

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Started: _Zoe_
January 2012
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