Thought provoking books?

Question

name some good ones, I need new reading material

Answer 1

If you want some controversial stuff, check these themes out:

Politics (Utopias/Dysutopias)-

1984 by George Orwell

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Does This School Have Capital Punishment by Nat Hentoff

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry

Messenger by Lois Lowry



Censorship-

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The Day They Came to Arrest the Book by Nat Hentoff

Memoirs of a Bookbat by Kathryn Lasky



Discrimination (Racism, Anti-semitism, etc.)-

The War Between the Classes by Gloria D. Miklowitz

The Wave by Todd Strasser

Prank by Kathryn Lasky

Pageant by Kathryn Lasky

Blood Secret by Kathryn Lasky (historical fiction)

Beyond the Burning Time by Kathryn Lasky (historical fiction)

The Witch of Cologne by Tobsha Learner (historical fiction)

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (historical fiction)

Answer 2

"Night" by Eil Weissel



"Hit And Run" (non-fiction) and I can't remember the authors. It is the fascinating biograpic account of these two men (one was Barbra Striestan's hairdresser) who became the heads of Columbia/Tri-Star studios and nearly ran it into the ground.



"Beer Blast" by Phillip Van Munching is an interesting look at the advertizing war in the beer brewing industry in the last quarter of the 20th Century. From "Tastes Great"/"Less Filling" to Spuds McKenzie and beyond.

Answer 3

State of Fear by Michael Crichton. It's a fictional story about the politics of global warming. It's meant to illustrate how politics can manipulate science for it's own evil agendas and I think it nails it.

Answer 4

Letter to a Christian Nation and The End of Faith by Sam Harris

Answer 5

'The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance'. Don't be fooled by the title. It's about a man who travels with his son around the country.

Answer 6

"Life of Pi" by Yann Martel or "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini. I have taught both of them to my college students, and they are excellent books for discussion.

Answer 7

The Life of PI.