<p>can be contemporary or classic...</p>
<p>but honestly, don't say something pretentious or boring =___=</p>
<p>Agenda 21
killing Lincoln
The man who was Thursday
Singapore letters
Divine comedy
Theban tragedies</p>
<p>Harry Potter, if you read some of the later books slowly, and think of the implications of things like time-turners, the memory-removing charm, awful political structures…</p>
<p>Animal Farm is good, though plenty of people don’t like that.</p>
<p>The “Uglies” series by Scott David Westerfield, if you like reading about the future.</p>
<p>Only one you might read in school would be Animal Farm.</p>
<p>I’m planning on reading Life of Pi, but the movie definitely gave me some stuff to chew on as far as religious philosophy. Interesting stuff.
Also, Kurt Vonnegut is amazing. He’s weird as anything, which is what keeps the novels interesting. Slaughterhouse-Five is his most famous work, probably.
Just read into stuff you like in school, basically. I read a book on the implications quantum mechanics could have on how consciousness affects the universe. That would probably bore most people, but it intrigued me. I’m a science guy, it’s what I’m into.</p>
<p>Grendel (after reading Beowulf)
Amazing</p>
<p>A Clockwork Orange is kind of interesting because you have to sort of learn a new language as you read it, and it’s definitely thought-provoking, in addition to being an exciting book.</p>
<p>the bluest eye by toni morrison…its kind of disturbing at some parts but the writing is the most beautifully crafted work i’ve ever seen. highly recommend it!</p>
<p>My favorite book (so I’m biased here) does actually fit this criteria. “The Book Thief”, I think, is an “intellectually stimulating” book, because it’s more than just the words written, a sort of “read between the lines” book.</p>
<p>Duuude I was about to suggest A Clockwork Orange.
I also second Life of Pi and Slaughterhouse-five + Cat’s Cradle. I’d add Trainspotting in terms of deciphering a language (phonetic Scottish wuddup) but it’s not exactly intellectually stimulating content-wise. If you like those, read The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and in a totally different genre, The Inheritance of Loss (such a great book!).</p>
<p>The Somnambulist
Life of Pi
The hole in the Zero
Guns, germs, and steel
Octavian Nothing</p>
<p>Those are the only intelligent books I’ve liked and read</p>
<p>‘deciphering Scottish’ oh you guys make me laugh…</p>
<p>The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, Philip Pulman (not for the sensitive religious people)
The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
The Road Back, Erich Maria Remarque
Sebastian Faulks is brilliant, and Jodi Picoult makes you think, but her books aren’t as good</p>
<p>The Forever War, looks at a future where Earth is in a massive war with other planets, actually amazingly interesting. To complement (or more of contrast) it, you can also read Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein. </p>
<p>Hemingway is always a good read for me, absolutely love anything by him. Steinbeck too, but I may be biased here since he did live close to my house and I drive by the scenic descriptions in his books.</p>
<p>I totally recommend Atonement. It’s good if you love thinking about moral issues and ends justifying the means, and similar stuff like that.</p>
<p>I got to about half way through Atonement when I started something else last year, but should be going back to it over christmas. Someone spoiled the end for me though :(</p>
<p>I would definitely reccomend Steinbeck, we’re reading Of Mice and Men at the moment and it’s brilliant. Not really my kind of book though, as I never seem to actually read description 
@Scutrules that’s so cool!</p>
<p>Agree with Hemingway, especially The Sun Also Rises
A Separate Peace (John Knowles) is something I read for school, but I love it.
Catcher in the Rye- another book you read in school, but once again, love it
Tess of the D’urberviles- once again, read in school, but involves so many types of love between people
I started Steve Jobs’ biography, so that’s something interesting.</p>
<p>@Teaspoons…wait you actually liked Guns, Germs, and Steel? Wow. I’ve never met someone who has, good for you, seriously. That’s a very dull book, IMP he could sum it up in 10 pages. After reading it for AP World, my class agreed Jared Diamond needed to get a life and stop writing.</p>
<p>Frankenstein, Great Expectations (and anything else from Dickens I would guess)</p>
<p>might think of some more later</p>
<p>Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality</p>
<p>@my post…that’s supposed to be IMO, not IMP</p>
<p>Another good book I enjoyed was “Chasing Lincoln’s Killer” but I’m a history buff, so if you don’t like history, don’t read it, it’s kinda heavy on the history.</p>
<p>1984, the only one that ever really stimulated my intelligence in High School.</p>