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 • 2,155 Readers • 311 pages 4.3

1984

1949 • 7,409 Readers • 328 pages 4.2

Tender Is the Flesh

2017 • 1,249 Readers • 224 pages 3.7

House of Leaves

1999 • 1,840 Readers • 709 pages 4.1

The Three-Body Problem

#1 of 4 in Remembrance of Earth's Past

2006 • 3,902 Readers • 400 pages 3.9

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

1962 • 1,241 Readers • 146 pages 3.9

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

1968 • 2,201 Readers • 223 pages 3.9

Piranesi

2019 • 3,080 Readers • 246 pages 4.2

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

2016 • 817 Readers • 5h 22m 3.7

Pines

#1 of 3 in Wayward Pines

2012 • 701 Readers • 307 pages 3.9

Life of Pi

1980 • 1,521 Readers • 480 pages 3.8

Dust

#3 of 3 in Silo

2013 • 634 Readers • 351 pages 4.1

The Lathe of Heaven

1971 • 640 Readers • 6h 48m 4

The Girl Next Door

1989 • 289 Readers • 386 pages 3.7

Parable of the Sower

#1 of 2 in Earthseed

1993 • 1,575 Readers • 350 pages 4.1

The Handmaid's Tale

#1 of 3 in The Handmaid's Tale

1985 • 3,657 Readers • 224 pages 4.1

Dark Matter

2016 • 2,907 Readers • 340 pages 4

Three

2003 • 62 Readers • 416 pages 3.8

Brother

2015 • 250 Readers • 336 pages 3.8

Recursion

2005 • 1,968 Readers • 329 pages 4.2

Childhood's End

1953 • 890 Readers • 212 pages 4

A Short Stay in Hell

2011 • 328 Readers • 104 pages 4.1

There Is No Antimemetics Division

2020 • 300 Readers • 226 pages 4.3

The Left Hand of Darkness

#4 of 18 in Hainish Cycle

1969 • 1,669 Readers • 267 pages 4.1

The Sparrow

#1 of 2 in The Sparrow

1996 • 656 Readers • 515 pages 4

They Never Learn

2020 • 405 Readers • 352 pages 4

My Dark Vanessa

2020 • 905 Readers • 395 pages 4.2

The Kite Runner

1969 • 2,081 Readers • 401 pages 4.2

Wool

#1 of 3 in Silo

2011 • 1,649 Readers • 592 pages 4.1

The Atlas Six

#1 of 3 in The Atlas

2020 • 1,428 Readers • 470 pages 3.4

Home Before Dark

2020 • 696 Readers • 413 pages 3.9

No Longer Human

1948 • 1,170 Readers • 196 pages 3.8

Bunny

#1 of 2 in Bunny

2019 • 1,287 Readers • 320 pages 3.5

Penpal

2012 • 349 Readers • 252 pages 3.9

The End is Nigh

#1 of 1 in The Apocalypse Triptych

2014 • 62 Readers • 350 pages 3.4

The Witch Elm

2018 • 227 Readers • 526 pages 3.5

Unwind

#1 of 4 in Unwind Dystology

2007 • 543 Readers • 337 pages 4

The City & The City

2009 • 715 Readers • 336 pages 4

Robopocalypse

#1 of 2 in Robopocalypse

2011 • 227 Readers • 347 pages 3.6

Blindness

#1 of 2 in Blindness

1995 • 808 Readers • 328 pages 4

The Tenant

1964 • 39 Readers • 216 pages 4.2

The Gulag Archipelago

#1-7 in The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

1973 • 29 Readers • 544 pages 4.8

The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

2004 • 35 Readers • 480 pages 2.6

Comfort Me With Apples

2021 • 371 Readers 3.5

Terminal Boredom: Stories

2021 • 99 Readers • 218 pages 3.8

The King in Yellow

1 The King in Yellow

1895 • 294 Readers • 204 pages 3.3

Girls Against God

2020 • 91 Readers • 239 pages 3.4

Cover 1

16 Readers 3.4

The Anomaly

2020 • 183 Readers • 401 pages 3.9

The Colour Out of Space

2 Présence du Futur / Folio

1927 • 62 Readers • 78 pages 4.1

Cover 0

#1 of 3 in Absolute Promethea

1999 • 3 Readers • 328 pages

I Who Have Never Known Men

1995 • 946 Readers • 208 pages 4.3

The Measure

2022 • 560 Readers • 10h 57m 3.8

Hidden Pictures

2022 • 752 Readers • 372 pages 3.9

Dead Inside

2015 • 99 Readers • 166 pages 2.8

The Necrophiliac

1972 • 35 Readers • 48 pages 3.9

The Only One Left

2023 • 856 Readers • 397 pages 3.9

Do Not Disturb

2021 • 127 Readers • 325 pages 3.5

Diavola

2024 • 209 Readers • 421 pages 3.7

Baby X

2024 • 121 Readers 3.9

Middle of the Night

2024 • 294 Readers • 352 pages 3.7

Incidents Around the House

2024 • 299 Readers • 367 pages 3.8

The Andromeda Strain

#1 of 2 in The Andromeda Strain

1969 • 687 Readers • 354 pages 3.7

Cover 6

1993 • 2 Readers • 91 pages 5

Erasure

2001 • 181 Readers • 265 pages 4.3

The Gone World

2018 • 405 Readers • 402 pages 4

The Hike

2016 • 286 Readers • 288 pages 3.9

Genesis

2006 • 79 Readers • 157 pages 4

Bridge To Terabithia

1977 • 623 Readers • 3h 35m 4

Robogenesis

#2 of 2 in Robopocalypse

2014 • 46 Readers • 443 pages 3.7

Abduction

2000 • 14 Readers • 416 pages 3.8

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

16 World War Z

2006 • 1,459 Readers • 5h 59m 3.9

Annihilation

#1 of 4 in Southern Reach

2014 • 2,024 Readers • 208 pages 3.7

Seveneves

2015 • 1,121 Readers • 867 pages 3.9

Ubik

1969 • 737 Readers • 285 pages 4

Klara and the Sun

1901 • 1,608 Readers • 418 pages 3.8

Use of Weapons

#3 of 10 in Culture

1990 • 383 Readers • 432 pages 4

The Chain

2019 • 309 Readers • 368 pages 3.5

Lock Every Door

2019 • 596 Readers • 386 pages 3.7

The Bluest Eye

1970 • 664 Readers • 216 pages 4

The Library at Mount Char

2015 • 911 Readers • 390 pages 4.1

The Institute

2019 • 1,039 Readers • 496 pages 4

Of Mice and Men

1937 • 2,791 Readers • 162 pages 3.8

The Wasp Factory

1984 • 469 Readers • 244 pages 3.6

The Terror

2007 • 473 Readers • 659 pages 4

Blindsight

#1 of 2 in Firefall

2006 • 839 Readers • 384 pages 3.8

The Complete Maus

#1 of 2 in Maus

1980 • 911 Readers • 295 pages 4.6

Death's End

#3 of 4 in The Three-Body Problem

2010 • 1,169 Readers • 604 pages 4.3

Shift

#2 of 3 in Silo

2013 • 638 Readers • 596 pages 4

Exhalation

2019 • 1,193 Readers • 350 pages 4.3

Earthlings

2018 • 719 Readers • 247 pages 3.6

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

#1 of 3 in Voice from the Edge

1967 • 437 Readers • 180 pages 3.7