This is how proven aid in overcoming shyness, molestation, fatness, spinsterhood, grief, disease, lushery, decrepitude & more-- for young and old alike
Augusten Burroughs
4
Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett
3.86
Steppenwolf
Hermann Hesse
Basil Creighton (Translator)
4.02
No Exit and Three Other Plays
Jean-Paul Sartre
Stuart Gilbert (Translator)
Lionel Abel (Translator)
3.93
Le Petit Prince
Joann Sfar
3
The October Country
Ray Bradbury
4.07
Magical Thinking: True Stories
Augusten Burroughs
4.27
Dry
Augusten Burroughs
3.75
100 Selected Poems
E.E. Cummings
4
Howl and Other Poems
Allen Ginsberg
4.22
Cities of the Plain
Cormac McCarthy
3.83
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Pablo Neruda
W.S. Merwin (Translator)
4.39
The fountainhead
Ayn Rand
3.64
The Chronicles of Narnia
C. S. Lewis
Paulo Mendes Campos (Translator)
Silêda Steuernagel (Translator)
4.06
Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke
4.4
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
David Foster Wallace
4.17
The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan
3.77
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
3.95
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Robert A. Heinlein
3.76
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
3.96
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Edward Morgan Forster
3.6
Alanna: The First Adventure
Tamora Pierce
4.07
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
Fyodor Dostoevsky
4.02
White Fang
Jack London
3.76
This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
Daniel J. Levitin
3.59
Les Fleurs du Mal
Charles Baudelaire
James McGowan (Translator)
4.21
The Fall of Hyperion
Dan Simmons
4.16
Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller
3.23
Master and Commander
Patrick O'Brian
3.93
Lioness Rampant
Tamora Pierce
3.96
The Two Towers
J.R.R. Tolkien
4.45
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
3.67
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke
Galway Kinnell (Translator)
Hannah Liebmann (Translator)
3.86
Running With Scissors
Augusten Burroughs
3.67
Blindness
José Saramago
Giovanni Pontiero (Translator)
4.03
The Cherry Orchard
Anton Chekhov
Tom Murphy (Translator)
3.4
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Roberto Bolaño
Natasha Wimmer (Translator)
3.76
The rum diary
Hunter S. Thompson
3.72
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
4.24
High Fidelity
Nick Hornby
3.91
E.E. Cummings
E.E. Cummings
0
Physics of the Impossible
Michio Kaku
4.03
You are not a gadget
Jaron Lanier
3.33
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Andrew H. MacAndrew (Translator)
4.42
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Scott O'Dell
3.61
The Ruby in the Smoke
Philip Pullman
3.45
Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov
Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
4.19
A Fine and Private Place
Peter S. Beagle
3.67
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Salman Rushdie
4.17
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Karen Joy Fowler
3.82
The Phantom Tollbooth
Norton Juster
4.2
Walden
Henry David Thoreau
3.74
Zen in the Art of Writing
Ray Bradbury
3.62
Redwall
Brian Jacques
4.1
The Rest Is Noise
Alex Ross
4
Classic Feynman
Richard Phillips Feynman
Ralph Leighton
5
The Design of Everyday Things
Donald A. Norman
3.98
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Shel Silverstein
4.35
King Lear
William Shakespeare
3.9
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
David Foster Wallace
3.91
Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare
3.83
Dandelion Wine
Ray Bradbury
3.88
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
3.27
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
David Foster Wallace
4.51
Ender's Shadow
Orson Scott Card
4.13
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
Gregory Rabassa (Translator)
4.1
The Darkness That Comes Before
R. Scott Bakker
3.69
Othello
William Shakespeare
3.82
Sputnik Sweetheart
Haruki Murakami
Philip Gabriel (Translator)
3.74
The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
Sam Harris
3.61
The Zinn Reader
Howard Zinn
4
Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton
4.09
Journey of Awakening: A Meditator's Guidebook
Ram Dass
Richard Alpert
Daniel Goleman
0
Learned Optimism
Martin E.P. Seligman
3.75
Be Here Now
Ram Dass
Richard Alpert
4.4
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
3.92
The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger
3.6
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
J. K. Rowling
4.29
Hyperion
Dan Simmons
4.26
The Bone People
Keri Hulme
4.44
Silent spring
Rachel Carson
3.91
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.71
The Lover
Marguerite Duras
3.68
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
C. S. Lewis
3.96
Life of Pi
Yann Martel
3.77
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Malcolm Gladwell
3.78
Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden
3.89
V for Vendetta
Alan Moore
4.1
Foundation
Isaac Asimov
3.99
The Elegant Universe
Brian Greene
4.12
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference