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 • 1,709 Readers • 311 pages 4.3

House of Leaves

1999 • 1,443 Readers • 709 pages 4.1

Tender Is the Flesh

2017 • 941 Readers • 224 pages 3.7

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

1962 • 993 Readers • 146 pages 3.9

1984

1949 • 5,782 Readers • 328 pages 4.2

The Lathe of Heaven

1971 • 502 Readers • 194 pages 4

The Girl Next Door

1989 • 227 Readers • 233 pages 3.8

The Three-Body Problem

#1 of 4 in The Three-Body Problem

2006 • 3,055 Readers • 400 pages 3.9

Pines

#1 of 3 in Wayward Pines

2012 • 542 Readers • 307 pages 3.9

Parable of the Sower

#1 of 2 in Earthseed

1993 • 1,207 Readers • 350 pages 4.2

The Left Hand of Darkness

#4 of 9 in Hainish Cycle

1969 • 1,314 Readers • 267 pages 4.1

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

1968 • 1,717 Readers • 223 pages 3.9

The Sparrow

#1 of 2 in The Sparrow

1996 • 544 Readers • 515 pages 4

Brother

2015 • 202 Readers • 336 pages 3.9

They Never Learn

2020 • 330 Readers • 352 pages 4

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

2016 • 652 Readers • 224 pages 3.7

Three

2003 • 47 Readers • 416 pages 3.8

The Atlas Six

#1 of 3 in The Atlas

2020 • 1,159 Readers • 453 pages 3.5

My Dark Vanessa

2020 • 725 Readers • 384 pages 4.2

Penpal

2012 • 288 Readers • 252 pages 4

The Witch Elm

2018 • 182 Readers • 526 pages 3.4

Unwind

#1 of 4 in Unwind Dystology

2007 • 443 Readers • 337 pages 4

The City & The City

2009 • 537 Readers • 336 pages 3.9

The Tenant

1964 • 28 Readers • 216 pages 4.3

The Gulag Archipelago

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

1973 • 20 Readers • 544 pages 4.8

The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

2004 • 28 Readers • 480 pages 2.8

Comfort Me with Apples

2021 • 296 Readers • 112 pages 3.5

Terminal Boredom: Stories

2021 • 77 Readers • 218 pages 3.8

Girls Against God

2020 • 65 Readers • 239 pages 3.5

The Anomaly

2020 • 125 Readers • 401 pages 3.8

Cover 0

#1 of 3 in Absolute Promethea

1999 • 2 Readers • 328 pages

The Measure

2022 • 413 Readers • 10h 57m 3.8

Hidden Pictures

2022 • 579 Readers • 348 pages 4

Dead Inside

2015 • 83 Readers • 166 pages 3.1

The Necrophiliac

1972 • 25 Readers • 48 pages 4

Diavola

2024 • 155 Readers • 305 pages 3.7

Baby X

2024 • 92 Readers 3.9

The Andromeda Strain

#1 of 2 in The Andromeda Strain

1969 • 533 Readers • 354 pages 3.7

Cover 6

1993 • 2 Readers • 91 pages 5

Erasure

2001 • 137 Readers • 320 pages 4.4

The Gone World

2018 • 307 Readers • 402 pages 3.9

Genesis

2006 • 60 Readers • 157 pages 4

Bridge To Terabithia

1977 • 513 Readers 4

The Kite Runner

1969 • 1,685 Readers • 401 pages 4.2

Abduction

2000 • 11 Readers • 416 pages 3.8

Piranesi

2019 • 2,426 Readers • 246 pages 4.2

Childhood's End

1953 • 691 Readers • 212 pages 4

Seveneves

2015 • 868 Readers • 867 pages 3.9

Ubik

1969 • 571 Readers • 241 pages 4

Life of Pi

1980 • 1,210 Readers • 480 pages 3.8

Klara and the Sun

1901 • 1,288 Readers • 418 pages 3.8

Use of Weapons

#3 of 10 in Culture

1990 • 282 Readers • 432 pages 4

The Chain

2019 • 250 Readers • 368 pages 3.6

The Handmaid's Tale

#1 of 2 in The Handmaid's Tale

1985 • 2,877 Readers • 324 pages 4.1

The Wasp Factory

1984 • 338 Readers • 184 pages 3.7

Exhalation

2008 • 910 Readers • 208 pages 4.3