Books That Make You Think
Books that made an impact on me or just had great debate points that have you putting the book down and just thinking.
List created by Frank H. (stormcreature) on Jun 24, 2020
List Votes: 1 Books: 10 Contributors: 1 Watchers: 0 List Type: Open
List created by Frank H. (stormcreature) on Jun 24, 2020
List Votes: 1 Books: 10 Contributors: 1 Watchers: 0 List Type: Open
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Frank H. (stormcreature) |
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon comes an exciting and thought-provoking science fiction epic -- a grand story of annihilation and survival spanning five thousand years.
What would happen if the world were... more
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Frank H. (stormcreature) |
A Book of American Martyrs: A Novel by Joyce Carol Oates
A powerfully resonant and provocative novel from American master and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates In this striking, enormously affecting novel, Joyce Carol Oates tells the story of two very different and yet intimately linked American families. Luther Dunphy is an ardent... more
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Frank H. (stormcreature) |
Under Tiberius by Nick Tosches
A work of dangerous and haunting beauty by America's last real literary outlaw.
Under Tiberius is a thrilling story of crime and deceit involving the man who came to be called Jesus Christ. Deep in the recesses of the Vatican, Nick Tosches unearths a first-century memoir by Gaius Fulvius... more
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Frank H. (stormcreature) |
Hearts In Atlantis by Stephen King
Stephen King, whose first novel, Carrie, was published in 1974, the year before the last U.S. troops withdrew from Vietnam, is the first hugely popular writer of the TV generation. Images from that war -- and the protests against it -- had flooded America's living rooms for a decade. Hearts in... more
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Frank H. (stormcreature) |
Memnoch the Devil (Vampire Chronicles, Bk 5) by Anne Rice
In the fifth Vampire Chronicle, Lestat is searching for Dora, the beautiful and charismatic mortal daughter of a drug lord. Dora has moved Lestat like no other mortal ever has, and he cannot get her out of his visions. At the same time, he is increasingly aware that the Devil knows who he is and... more
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Frank H. (stormcreature) |
The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
In the near future, disease has been wiped out and genetic defects are a thing of the past. But one final generation missed the cut.
Lou Arrendale's autism marks him a member of that lost generation. But though it confines him to a quiet world apart from society, it makes him who he is,... more
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Frank H. (stormcreature) |
The Stranger by Albert Camus & Matthew Ward (Translator)
Albert Camus’s spare, laconic masterpiece about a Frenchman who murders an Arab in Algeria is famous for having diagnosed, with a clarity almost scientific, that condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life.
Possessing... more
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Frank H. (stormcreature) |
The Man in the Picture by Susan Hill
An extraordinary ghost story from a modern master, published just in time for Halloween. In the apartment of Oliver's old professor at Cambridge, there is a painting on the wall, a mysterious depiction of masked revelers at the Venice carnival. On this cold winter's night, the old professor has... more
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