Prompts

What are some books that messed with your mind?

By
@amyt
Amy

Collecting books that disturbed you, made you think, or haunted you long after you were done reading.

Flowers for Algernon

19 • 1,461 Readers • 311 pages 4.3

House of Leaves

1999 • 1,245 Readers • 709 pages 4.1

The Girl Next Door

1989 • 193 Readers • 233 pages 3.8

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

1962 • 857 Readers • 146 pages 4

The Three-Body Problem

#1 of 4 in The Three-Body Problem

2006 • 2,678 Readers • 400 pages 3.9

The Lathe of Heaven

1000 • 432 Readers • 194 pages 4.1

Parable of the Sower

1993 • 1,056 Readers • 350 pages 4.1

Tender Is the Flesh

2017 • 794 Readers • 224 pages 3.7

Pines

#1 of 3 in Wayward Pines

2012 • 469 Readers • 307 pages 3.9

Three

2003 • 37 Readers • 416 pages 3.8

The Sparrow

#1 of 2 in The Sparrow

1996 • 490 Readers • 515 pages 4

Penpal

2012 • 238 Readers • 252 pages 3.9

The Witch Elm

2018 • 152 Readers • 529 pages 3.4

Unwind

#1 of 4 in Unwind Dystology

2007 • 368 Readers • 337 pages 4

The City & The City

2009 • 453 Readers • 336 pages 4

The Gulag Archipelago

#1-7 of 3 in The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

1973 • 9 Readers • 544 pages

The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

2004 • 18 Readers • 480 pages 2.5

Comfort Me with Apples

2021 • 252 Readers • 112 pages 3.4

They Never Learn

2020 • 291 Readers • 352 pages 3.9

The Anomaly

2020 • 106 Readers • 401 pages 3.8

Cover 0

#1 of 3 in Absolute Promethea

1999 • 2 Readers • 328 pages

The Andromeda Strain

#1 of 2 in The Andromeda Strain

1969 • 451 Readers • 354 pages 3.7

Cover 6

1993 • 2 Readers • 91 pages 5

Erasure

2001 • 115 Readers • 320 pages 4.5

Genesis

2006 • 54 Readers • 157 pages 4

Bridge To Terabithia

1977 • 443 Readers 4

Abduction

2000 • 11 Readers • 416 pages 3.8

Piranesi

2019 • 2,086 Readers • 273 pages 4.2

Seveneves

2015 • 761 Readers • 880 pages 3.9

Brother

2015 • 171 Readers • 336 pages 4

Klara and the Sun

1901 • 1,126 Readers • 418 pages 3.8

The Handmaid's Tale

#1 of 2 in The Handmaid's Tale

1985 • 2,410 Readers • 324 pages 4.1

1984

1949 • 4,968 Readers • 352 pages 4.2

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

2016 • 577 Readers • 224 pages 3.7