Polls for Our Souls discussion

For me, there were many books which made me think.
Siddhartha, Woman in white, The Hungry Tide, etc...There is a long list though.

Dark Matter
The Hunger Games
The 5th Wave
pretty much any well written dystopian

Scythe really made me think. So did The Hate U Give.

1. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, for both answers! this book is incredible & thought provoking! I love it

The Swap by Megan Shull was one book that I really didn't want to end... and it really made me think a lot, too. 😊😊😊

The Swap by Megan Shull was one book that I really didn't want to end... and it also made me think a lot.

A Monster Calls made me think and I never wanted Cinder to end

To Kill a Mockingbird
Rebecca
Pond
Wuthering Heights

King’s cage... I was shocked 😳
Me before you... my heart was broken
And a court of thorn and roses 🌹

Lost Boys
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

The Family Tree, by Sheri Tepper
The Terrorist of Irustan, by Louise Marley
The Gate to Women's Country, also by Sheri Tepper
The Fifth Sacred Thing, by Starhawk (big-time)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert M. Persig

I'm currently reading the war that saved my life and I don't what it to end!!

When the twilight series ended I was so sad I love the twilight series the movies are different but I still love the books

I didn't want the Eragon series to end! I loved it to much! But I'm so happy to hear rumors of yet another book coming soon! :)

♛✧נєℓℓувєαη✧♛✧ℓσνє ιѕ α тяαgι¢ ƒαтє✧♛ wrote: "I didn't want the Eragon series to end! I loved it to much! But I'm so happy to hear rumors of yet another book coming soon! :)"

Anni wrote: "Dark Matter
The Hunger Games
The 5th Wave
pretty much any well written dystopian"

Anni wrote: "Dark Matter
The Hunger Games
The 5th Wave
pretty much any well written dystopian"

Good to know, how is dark matter, planning to read that after the current set of novels.

Freakonomics... Even if you have never studied Economics, you should read this atleast once. Great fun to read & you learn a lot about human behavior too.

SumitRK wrote: “Freakonomics… Even if you have never studied Economics, you should read this atleast once. Great fun to read & you learn a lot about human behavior too.”

That was fascinating.

The Giver series made me think and I didn’t want it to end. I didn’t want the Mrs Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children series to end either. The Dark Tower series made me really think as well.

Satish wrote: “♛✧נєℓℓувєαη✧♛✧ℓσνє ιѕ α тяαgι¢ ƒαтє✧♛ wrote: “I didn’t want the Eragon series to end! I loved it to much! But I’m so happy to hear rumors of yet another book coming soon! :)”

Anni wrote: “Dark Mat…”

I expected Dark Matter to be mind-blowing, but it was more of a contemporary drama. I think it’s more impactful if you haven’t read a lot of sci fi; the sci fi is really the background for the core story.

Monsters of Verity series

The Kanin Chronicles!!!!

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, The Hearts Invisible Furies, Beartown (luckily there is a sequel coming out!). I didn't love Birdbox but that book made me think so much about how I would react. Dark Matter was similar.

To Kill A Kingdom. I was watching the remaining amount of pages get smaller and smaller and dreading the ending!

the gargoyle by andrew davidson. braiding sweetgrass by robin wall kimmerer. jonny got his gun by dalton trumbo (the intro/forward part was NUTS).

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
Weathering Heights
All the Oz books

Made me think:

Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
Eating Animals
Black Like Me
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
For the Love of Men: A New Vision for Mindful Masculinity
Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture
NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Never wanted to end:
Night Film
The Heart's Invisible Furies
The Goldfinch
White Oleander
Gone Girl
Jane Eyre
The Binding

I'm in the middle of this and already don't want it to ever end: I Capture the Castle

I never wanted " we are okay " to end...

Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins really had me thinking existentially, as did his book Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates.

As for books I don't want to end, I always hate to see the end of a good Serge and Coleman adventure by Tim Dorsey.

Made me think:

The Poppy War
It actually made me research the China - Japan war and the atrocities that were committed but aren't well known... I was shook.

Brave New World
The thing that destroys humanity is not anything awful (lshout out to 1982) but unlimited pleasure that nullifies human need, emotion and empathy.

The Humans
Funny and heartfelt, made me examine what it means to be a Human (unironically considering the title...)

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (specifically made me think about the power of the media - the daily prophet were real a**holes in this!)

Noughts & Crosses
The racial power dynamic is reversed, people of colour are in power and whites in the post slave / discriminated against era).


The Power
Examines the Global political and societal fallout when women become the stronger gender due to a genetic mutation... it is a stark look at what power does to people and the many ways women are mistreated in societies. Also reads like an action film that I am glad was not real!

Living for books that make me see the world in a different way!


Books I didn't want to end:

The Folk of the Air series Holly Black- they are all so good! JURDANNNN

Uprooted

The Hating Game
Cheesy feel good romance that brought me such joy.

There are definitely more but that's all my coffee addled brain can manage right now! Happy reading and looking forward to seeing what others think :)

- Vita Nostra by Marina Dyachenko
- The Stranger by Albert Camus
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
- Anna Karenina and War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- Nothing Holds Back the Night by Delphine de Vigan
- Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
- The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State by Nadia Murad

Those books all gave me something to think about long after I read them and five of them are also ones of my all time favorite books.