This comprehensive list showcases a variety of thought-provoking and
mind-bending books across different genres and time periods. Some books
appear multiple times, indicating their significant impact and
popularity.

1. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
2. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
3. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
4. 1984 by George Orwell
5. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
6. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
7. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
8. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
9. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
10. Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
11. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
12. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
13. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
14. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
15. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
16. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
17. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
18. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
19. The Trial by Franz Kafka
20. The Stranger by Albert Camus
21. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
22. The Shining by Stephen King
23. Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
24. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
25. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
26. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
27. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
28. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
29. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
30. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
31. Under the Skin by Michel Faber
32. Blindness by José Saramago
33. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
34. The Collector by John Fowles
35. Verity by Colleen Hoover
36. The Magus by John Fowles
37. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
38. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
39. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
40. Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
41. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
42. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
43. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
44. Animal Farm by George Orwell
45. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
46. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
47. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
48. Dune by Frank Herbert
49. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
50. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
51. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
52. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
53. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
54. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
55. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
56. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
57. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
58. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
59. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
60. The Giver by Lois Lowry
61. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
62. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
63. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
64. Beloved by Toni Morrison
65. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
66. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
67. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
68. The Odyssey by Homer
69. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
70. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
71. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
72. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
73. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
74. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
75. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
76. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens