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The Best Books to Make You Wonder "Whaat If"?

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Books to make you think a little, wonder a little, and challenge yourself. Try them - the ones that make you think the most are listed at the top.

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The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Read the Ultimate Hitchiker's Guide - it has all five books of the trilogy together in one place. It makes you think - and laugh at the same time. Sometimes a good combination, and sometimes a disturbing one, but never a dull moment.

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House of Leaves; Mark Z. Danielewski

Perhaps one of the most truly bone-chilling novels of all time - precisely because it is not in a standard novel format. Truly unique.

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Singer From the Sea; Sheri Tepper

Life and death and the meaning of both.

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The Fresco; Sheri Tepper

Will it take a paradigm shift to change the way humanity views itself and its place in the universe, or just one woman with the courage to say what she thinks?

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I, Robot; Isaac Asminov

What does it truly mean to be human?

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Stranger in a Strange Land; Heinlein

A truly eye-opening story. How much of what we are as humans is what our society has drilled into us? How much is instinctive? What can we do without?

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Snow Crash; Neil Stephenson

A novel so chillingly real that you keep thinking you're going to run into the characters on the street.

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Branch Point; Mona Clee

The future comes down to the choices we make today. What if we made the wrong one?

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Eternity Road; Jack McDevitt

What about our culture is truly memorable? Anything? What would we be remembered for if we disappeared tomorrow?

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Little, Big; John Crowley

A modern fantasy based on just whaat perception is - and is not - and why it matters.

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Anathem; Neil Stephenson

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