I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou

1969 ★ 4.1

Forbidden knowledge

Roger Shattuck

1996 ★ 4.4

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

1857 ★ 3.8

Der Steppenwolf

Hermann Hesse

1957 ★ 4.0

Utopia

Thomas More

1684 ★ 3.4

The Souls of Black Folk

W. E. B. Du Bois

1903 ★ 4.1

Life on the Mississippi

Mark Twain

1883 ★ 3.8

Moralia

Plutarch

1655 ★ 4.2

Far away and long ago

W. H. Hudson

1918 ★ 3.6

A small place

Robin Miles, Jamaica Kincaid

1988 ★ 4.0

De la démocratie en Amérique

Gustave de Beaumont, Alexis de Tocqueville

1835 ★ 4.7

A Moveable Feast

Ernest Hemingway

1964 ★ 4.0

Roughing It

Mark Twain

1872 ★ 4.2

Running with Scissors

Augusten Burroughs

2002 ★ 3.5

Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée

Simone de Beauvoir

1958 ★ 2.8

The 100 most influential books ever written

Martin Seymour-Smith

1998 ★ 4.8

Die Vermessung der Welt

Daniel Kehlmann

2006 ★ 3.7

The Liars' Club

Mary Karr

1995 ★ 4.2

Anti-intellectualism in American life

Richard Hofstadter, Adam Verner

1963 ★ 4.7

Lettres philosophiques

Voltaire

1733 ★ 4.5

Les Mandarins

Simone de Beauvoir

1954

The Know-It-All

Jacobs, A. J.

2004 ★ 3.5

Berlin Alexanderplatz

Alfred Döblin

1931

Zniewolony umysł

Czesław Miłosz

1955

Life of Samuel Johnson

James Boswell

1793 ★ 4.2

Point Counter Point

Aldous Huxley

1928

C

Culture and values

Lawrence S. Cunningham, John J. Reich

1990 ★ 3.9

Out of Africa

Isak Dinesen

1938 ★ 3.6

Yearning

Christopher Raschka, bell hooks

1990

Renaissance man and creative thinking

Dorothy Koenigsberger

1979 ★ 3.0