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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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A Brief History of Time
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4.20 avg rating — 376,674 ratings
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The Selfish Gene
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4.15 avg rating — 161,652 ratings
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The Prince
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
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The Little Prince
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4.32 avg rating — 1,742,522 ratings
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
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4.08 avg rating — 93,020 ratings
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Cosmos
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4.38 avg rating — 133,200 ratings
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Beyond Good and Evil
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Faust
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The Age of Reason
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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4.28 avg rating — 67,081 ratings
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Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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3.62 avg rating — 5,901 ratings
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The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
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4.08 avg rating — 36,890 ratings
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Faust, First Part
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3.89 avg rating — 67,315 ratings
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Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
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4.31 avg rating — 33,762 ratings
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The Grand Design
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4.05 avg rating — 69,676 ratings
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
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4.26 avg rating — 182,944 ratings
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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4.28 avg rating — 46,716 ratings
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The Universe in a Nutshell
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4.18 avg rating — 39,037 ratings
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A Modern Declaration of Independence: Crimes Against Humanity and a New System
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Meditations
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4.24 avg rating — 174,084 ratings
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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4.39 avg rating — 781,386 ratings
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Fahrenheit 451
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3.98 avg rating — 2,039,614 ratings
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Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
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3.87 avg rating — 1,928 ratings
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Being and Time
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4.04 avg rating — 22,307 ratings
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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4.25 avg rating — 43,896 ratings
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Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
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4.01 avg rating — 2,519 ratings
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How to Lie with Statistics
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3.84 avg rating — 14,126 ratings
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Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
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4.29 avg rating — 16,117 ratings
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Cybernetics: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
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4.02 avg rating — 624 ratings
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
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4.14 avg rating — 162,751 ratings
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Shit my History Teacher DID NOT tell me!
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Critique of Cynical Reason
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The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain from Vienna 1900 to the Present
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4.21 avg rating — 1,524 ratings
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
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3.85 avg rating — 30,634 ratings
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The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
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The Art of Happiness
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4.16 avg rating — 107,008 ratings
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The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom
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4.32 avg rating — 911 ratings
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The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
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3.56 avg rating — 2,837 ratings
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What Is Philosophy?
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4.14 avg rating — 1,781 ratings
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Confessions
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Confessions
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The Decline of the West
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Edge of the Universe A Voyage to the Cosmic Horizon and Beyond
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3.86 avg rating — 236 ratings
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The Society of the Spectacle
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4.02 avg rating — 17,896 ratings
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Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
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4.09 avg rating — 23,266 ratings
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The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom
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How the Mind Works
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The Concept of the Political
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Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics By Its Most Brilliant Teacher
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4.21 avg rating — 24,380 ratings
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Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
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The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
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The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
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Phenomenology of Spirit
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
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Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
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Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
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QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
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The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense
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Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland
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The Science of Shakespeare: A New Look at the Playwright's Universe
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Mythbusting the Cult of Confucius: What the Chinese Really Are, How to Understand Them and Why We Need to
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Quit or Die Trying
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Pantheisticon: A Modern English Translation
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The Boy Who Played with Fusion: Extreme Science, Extreme Parenting, and How to Make a Star
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The 28 Day Shift To Wealth: A Daily Prosperity Plan (The Shift Series)
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Not Trivial: How Studying the Traditional Liberal Arts Can Set You Free
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The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It
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Beasts of Prey: The Hard Truth about Men
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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Divorced and Scared No More! Bk 3: Dating After Divorce from Lemons to Zesty Lemon Sorbet
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The Martyrdom of Man
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Waiting for Godot
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The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch
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America's First Great Eclipse: How Scientists, Tourists, and the Rocky Mountain Eclipse of 1878 Changed Astronomy Forever
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We Should All Be Feminists
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Religion and the Rebel
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The Yoga of Leadership: A Practical Guide to Health, Happiness, And Inspiring Total Team Engagement
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Legendary Advice: 101 Proven Strategies To Rapidly Increase Your Income, Wealth and Lifestyle!
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Ultimate Memory Magic: The Transformative Program for Sharper Memory, Mental Clarity, and Greater Focus . . . at Any Age!
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God, the Evolver: A Secular Approach to the Divine
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Zenith: The Science, History and Mythology of the Northern Lights
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Stephen Hawking On Trial: Confronting the Big Bang
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One Reality: The Harmony of Science and Religion
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A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
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Max Smart - The Spy Who Went Out to the Cold (Get Smart, #7)
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The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
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Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
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Seeing Further: Ideas, Endeavours, Discoveries and Disputes — The Story of Science Through 350 Years of the Royal Society
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Who are you? (Balu Baldauf #5)
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The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda's Road to 9/11
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Divorced and Scared No More! Bk 2: Practical Advice for the Newly Divorced
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Introducing Evolutionary Psychology
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Our Lady of Kibeho: Mary Speaks to the World from the Heart of Africa
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Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information
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Ask a Philosopher: Answers to Your Most Important and Most Unexpected Questions
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The Blindspots Between Us: How to Overcome Unconscious Cognitive Bias and Build Better Relationships
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I also suggest taking mathematics at least through first-year calculus, and I especially suggest a class in beginning probability and statistics.