Thought-provoking books
Books that stay with readers after the last page and invite them to think about justice, memory, mortality or what makes us human. Daniel Keyes's Flowers for Algernon asks what intelligence is worth, Frank Herbert's Dune questions power and belief, and Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy examines the justice system from the inside. Carl Sagan's Cosmos and Maus offer different ways into large questions.
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- 1The Way of Kings
9.29.2 / 10 - 2Maus
9.09.0 / 10 - 3Know My Name
9.09.0 / 10 - 4Just Mercy
8.98.9 / 10 - 5One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
8.98.9 / 10 - 6I'm Glad My Mom Died
8.98.9 / 10 - 7Jade Legacy
8.98.9 / 10 - 8Cosmos
8.98.9 / 10 - 9Dune
8.88.8 / 10 - 10The New Jim Crow
8.88.8 / 10 - 11The Fellowship of the Ring
8.88.8 / 10 - 12Flowers for Algernon
8.88.8 / 10 - 13The Stone Sky
8.88.8 / 10 - 14The Fire Next Time
8.88.8 / 10 - 15Evicted
8.88.8 / 10 - 16Braiding Sweetgrass
8.78.7 / 10 - 17Being Mortal
8.78.7 / 10 - 18The Count of Monte Cristo
8.78.7 / 10 - 19Homegoing
8.78.7 / 10 - 20In the Dream House
8.78.7 / 10 - 21Yukon Ho!
8.78.7 / 10 - 22The Nightingale
8.68.6 / 10 - 23Stoner
8.68.6 / 10 - 24Factfulness
8.68.6 / 10 - 25An Immense World
8.68.6 / 10 - 26When Breath Becomes Air
8.68.6 / 10 - 27Midnight Tides
8.68.6 / 10 - 28Hyperion
8.68.6 / 10 - 29Gender Queer
8.68.6 / 10 - 30Kindred
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