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The Book That Slapped You

The asker banned the school-canon answers and asked for the ones you'd never have found alone. It shows: 76 books, and almost none of them are the usual ones.

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0015×David Foster WallaceThis Is Water★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0024×Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona StaplesSaga★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0034×Isabel AllendeThe House of the Spirits★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0043×John SteinbeckEast of Eden★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0053×John HoltHow Children Fail★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0063×Kazuo IshiguroNever Let Me Go★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0073×Orson Scott CardSpeaker for the Dead★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0082×Matthew DesmondEvicted★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0092×Daniel KeyesFlowers for Algernon★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0102×Markus ZusakThe Book Thief★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0112×Pearl S. BuckThe Good Earth★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0122×Janet FitchWhite Oleander★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0131×Norman MacleanA River Runs Through It★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0141×Ruth OzekiA Tale for the Time Being★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0151×Fredrik BackmanBeartown★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0161×Ta-Nehisi CoatesBetween the World and Me★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0171×David GraeberBullshit Jobs★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0181×Jennifer WorthCall the Midwife★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0191×Isabel WilkersonCaste★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0201×Johann HariChasing the Scream★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0211×David Foster WallaceConsider the Lobster★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0221×Fyodor DostoevskyCrime and Punishment★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0231×Isabel AllendeDaughter of Fortune★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0241×Jacques SandulescuDonbas★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0251×Sam QuinonesDreamland★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0261×Frank HerbertDune★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0271×Ray BradburyFahrenheit 451★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0281×Mary ShelleyFrankenstein★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0291×Margaret MitchellGone with the Wind★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0301×Kurt VonnegutHarrison Bergeron★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0311×Joe HillHorns★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0321×John HoltHow Children Learn★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0331×Wally LambI Know This Much Is True★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0341×Maya AngelouI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0351×Primo LeviIf This Is a Man (Survival in Auschwitz)★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0361×Truman CapoteIn Cold Blood★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0371×William S. BurroughsJunky★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0381×David GrannKillers of the Flower Moon★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0391×Rainer Maria RilkeLetters to a Young Poet★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0401×Barbara EhrenreichNickel and Dimed★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0411×Elie WieselNight★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0421×John SteinbeckOf Mice and Men★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0431×Louise O'NeillOnly Ever Yours★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0441×Min Jin LeePachinko★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0451×Rick RiordanPercy Jackson and the Olympians★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0461×Isabel AllendePortrait in Sepia★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0471×Yuval Noah HarariSapiens★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0481×Wally LambShe's Come Undone★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0491×Hermann HesseSiddhartha★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0501×Kurt VonnegutSlaughterhouse-Five★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0511×Dan BaumSmoke and Mirrors★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0521×Ibram X. KendiStamped from the Beginning★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0531×Malcolm GladwellTalking to Strangers★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0541×Thomas HardyTess of the d'Urbervilles★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0551×Amanda PalmerThe Art of Asking★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0561×Carl SaganThe Demon-Haunted World★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0571×Don Miguel RuizThe Four Agreements★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0581×Mariam PetrosyanThe Gray House★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0591×David TreuerThe Heartbeat of Wounded Knee★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0601×Douglas AdamsThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0611×Wally LambThe Hour I First Believed★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0621×Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Little Prince★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0631×Michelle AlexanderThe New Jim Crow★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0641×S. E. HintonThe Outsiders★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0651×Ken FollettThe Pillars of the Earth★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0661×Barbara KingsolverThe Poisonwood Bible★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0671×Eckhart TolleThe Power of Now★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0681×Anita DiamantThe Red Tent★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0691×George PackerThe Unwinding★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0701×Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0711×Daniel KahnemanThinking, Fast and Slow★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0721×Harper LeeTo Kill a Mockingbird★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0731×John SteinbeckTortilla Flat★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0741×Joyce Carol OatesWe Were the Mulvaneys★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0751×Anand GiridharadasWinners Take All★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook
0761×Brian K. VaughanY: The Last Man★ Goodreads · r/suggestmeabook

How this was counted. Counted by distinct redditor. A reply that seconds a book (“another vote for Evicted”) counts as a mention the same as naming it first — agreement is what a tally is made of — but a reply that only links the text or quotes a line does not. The asker's own books are excluded. Four entries aren't books: This Is Water and Consider the Lobster are essays, Harrison Bergeron a short story, Letters to a Young Poet a set of letters. They stay, because each was somebody's answer. Note the shape of this one against the other book tallies: the question asked for the un-obvious, so the counts stay low and the tail is nearly the whole list.