1.
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
58 points - added 15 years ago by chainik -
2.
1984 by George Orwell
48 points - added 15 years ago by chainik -
3.
Crime and Punishmen by Fyodor Dostoevsky
42 points - added 12 years ago by NickDrake -
4.
The Prince by Machiavelli
For those with a power-hungry streak.
27 points - added 15 years ago by chainik -
5.
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
21 points - added 15 years ago by chainik -
6.
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
11 points - added 15 years ago by chainik -
7.
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
6 points - added 15 years ago by chainik -
8.
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Delve into race and identity.
6 points - added 15 years ago by chainik -
9.
Civilization and its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
5 points - added 15 years ago by chainik -
10.
Anything by Nietzsche
Every college student becomes a nihilist at some point.
5 points - added 15 years ago by chainik -
11.
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
3 points - added 15 years ago by chainik -
12.
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
1 point - added 15 years ago by chainik -
13.
Howl by Allen Ginsberg
0 points - added 15 years ago by chainik -
14.
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
0 points - added 15 years ago by chainik -
15.
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
0 points - added 15 years ago by chainik -
16.
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions by Gloria Steinem
0 points - added 15 years ago by chainik -
17.
Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre
0 points - added 15 years ago by chainik -
18.
Anything by Kierkegaard
0 points - added 15 years ago by chainik -
19.
The Stranger by Albert Camus
0 points - added 15 years ago by chainik -
20.
The Communist Manifesto
For those who believe in the proletariat.
-8 points - added 15 years ago by chainik -
21.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Fight the power! Civil rights!
-31 points - added 15 years ago by chainik -
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