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 • 2,007 Readers • 311 pages 4.3

House of Leaves

1999 • 1,707 Readers • 709 pages 4.1

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

1962 • 1,169 Readers • 146 pages 4

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

2016 • 760 Readers • 5h 22m 3.7

1984

1949 • 6,839 Readers • 328 pages 4.2

Tender Is the Flesh

2017 • 1,155 Readers • 224 pages 3.7

The Lathe of Heaven

1971 • 596 Readers • 6h 48m 4

The Three-Body Problem

#1 of 6 in Remembrance of Earth's Past

2006 • 3,588 Readers • 400 pages 3.9

Parable of the Sower

#1 of 2 in Earthseed

1993 • 1,464 Readers • 350 pages 4.1

Pines

#1 of 3 in Wayward Pines

2012 • 648 Readers • 307 pages 3.9

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

1968 • 2,025 Readers • 223 pages 3.9

The Girl Next Door

1989 • 267 Readers • 386 pages 3.8

Brother

2015 • 232 Readers • 336 pages 3.9

Life of Pi

1980 • 1,435 Readers • 480 pages 3.8

The Sparrow

#1 of 2 in The Sparrow

1996 • 627 Readers • 515 pages 4

They Never Learn

2020 • 383 Readers • 352 pages 4

Piranesi

2019 • 2,856 Readers • 246 pages 4.2

My Dark Vanessa

2020 • 858 Readers • 395 pages 4.2

Dark Matter

2016 • 2,676 Readers • 340 pages 4

Three

2003 • 56 Readers • 416 pages 3.7

The Handmaid's Tale

#1 of 3 in The Handmaid's Tale

1985 • 3,423 Readers • 324 pages 4.1

The Left Hand of Darkness

#4 of 18 in Hainish Cycle

1969 • 1,555 Readers • 267 pages 4.1

The Atlas Six

#1 of 3 in The Atlas

2020 • 1,350 Readers • 453 pages 3.5

Home Before Dark

2020 • 658 Readers • 413 pages 3.9

Bunny

#1 of 2 in Bunny

2019 • 1,226 Readers • 320 pages 3.5

Penpal

2012 • 328 Readers • 252 pages 3.9

The Witch Elm

2018 • 216 Readers • 526 pages 3.4

Unwind

#1 of 4 in Unwind Dystology

2007 • 517 Readers • 337 pages 4

The City & The City

2009 • 666 Readers • 336 pages 4

The Tenant

1964 • 38 Readers • 216 pages 4.2

The Gulag Archipelago

#1-7 in The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

1973 • 26 Readers • 544 pages 4.8

The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

2004 • 32 Readers • 480 pages 2.6

Comfort Me with Apples

2021 • 351 Readers • 112 pages 3.5

Terminal Boredom: Stories

2021 • 93 Readers • 218 pages 3.8

The King in Yellow

8 The King in Yellow

1895 • 246 Readers • 204 pages 3.2

Girls Against God

2020 • 84 Readers • 239 pages 3.7

Cover 1

15 Readers 3.5

The Anomaly

2020 • 167 Readers • 401 pages 3.9

The Colour Out of Space

2 Présence du Futur / Folio

1927 • 53 Readers • 78 pages 3.9

Cover 0

#1 of 3 in Absolute Promethea

1999 • 3 Readers • 328 pages

The Measure

2022 • 517 Readers • 10h 57m 3.8

Hidden Pictures

2022 • 695 Readers • 372 pages 3.9

Dead Inside

2015 • 93 Readers • 166 pages 3

The Necrophiliac

1972 • 31 Readers • 48 pages 4

The Only One Left

2023 • 805 Readers • 397 pages 3.9

Do Not Disturb

2021 • 117 Readers • 325 pages 3.4

Diavola

2024 • 194 Readers • 421 pages 3.7

Baby X

2024 • 117 Readers 3.9

Middle of the Night

2024 • 278 Readers • 352 pages 3.7

Incidents Around the House

2024 • 275 Readers • 367 pages 3.9

The Andromeda Strain

#1 of 2 in The Andromeda Strain

1969 • 646 Readers • 354 pages 3.7

Cover 6

1993 • 2 Readers • 91 pages 5

Erasure

2001 • 163 Readers • 320 pages 4.4

The Gone World

2018 • 368 Readers • 402 pages 3.9

The Hike

2016 • 264 Readers • 288 pages 3.9

Genesis

2006 • 74 Readers • 157 pages 4

Bridge To Terabithia

1977 • 598 Readers 4

The Kite Runner

1969 • 1,968 Readers • 401 pages 4.2

Abduction

2000 • 14 Readers • 416 pages 3.8

Childhood's End

1953 • 831 Readers • 212 pages 4

Annihilation

#1 of 4 in Southern Reach

2014 • 1,868 Readers • 208 pages 3.7

Seveneves

2015 • 1,029 Readers • 867 pages 3.9

Recursion

2005 • 1,817 Readers • 329 pages 4.2

Ubik

1969 • 678 Readers • 285 pages 4

Klara and the Sun

1901 • 1,506 Readers • 418 pages 3.8

Use of Weapons

#3 of 10 in Culture

1990 • 349 Readers • 432 pages 4

The Chain

2019 • 285 Readers • 368 pages 3.5

Lock Every Door

2019 • 566 Readers • 386 pages 3.7

The Bluest Eye

1970 • 626 Readers • 216 pages 4

The Institute

2019 • 969 Readers • 496 pages 4

The Wasp Factory

1984 • 411 Readers • 184 pages 3.6

Death's End

#3 of 4 in The Three-Body Problem

2010 • 1,050 Readers • 604 pages 4.4

Exhalation

2008 • 1,064 Readers • 208 pages 4.3

Earthlings

2018 • 662 Readers • 247 pages 3.6