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1984
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4.20 avg rating — 5,323,692 ratings
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Corpalism
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Arun D. Ellis (Goodreads Author)
3.37 avg rating — 300 ratings
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The STREAM TONE: The Future of Personal Computing?
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T. Gilling (Goodreads Author)
3.17 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters
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Gleb Tsipursky (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 255 ratings
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Frankenstein
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3.89 avg rating — 1,803,861 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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Jeannette Walls (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 1,341,122 ratings
score: 284,
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The Giving Tree
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4.38 avg rating — 1,220,575 ratings
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
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4.26 avg rating — 100,779 ratings
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Catch-22
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3.99 avg rating — 879,258 ratings
score: 197,
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Dry
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Augusten Burroughs (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 97,969 ratings
score: 196,
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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4.01 avg rating — 890,770 ratings
score: 195,
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Animal Farm
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4.01 avg rating — 4,435,440 ratings
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Running with Scissors
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Augusten Burroughs (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 401,950 ratings
score: 192,
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War and Peace
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4.17 avg rating — 360,611 ratings
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Lord of the Flies
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3.70 avg rating — 3,150,664 ratings
score: 187,
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Fight Club
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Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 634,912 ratings
score: 186,
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Detroit: An American Autopsy
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3.94 avg rating — 15,799 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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3.93 avg rating — 74,227 ratings
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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4.29 avg rating — 52,737 ratings
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Unwifeable: A Memoir
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Mandy Stadtmiller (Goodreads Author)
3.58 avg rating — 3,281 ratings
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Samson: The Modern Day America
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Stephen R. Williams (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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I'm a F***ing Star: Get on Reality TV
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 27 ratings
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How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution
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4.22 avg rating — 1,811 ratings
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How to Thrive in the 21st Century - By Avoiding Porn and Other Distractions
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Havard Mela (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
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4.37 avg rating — 438,281 ratings
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Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order
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4.03 avg rating — 7,268 ratings
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Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
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James Barrat (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 3,883 ratings
score: 99,
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Where Poppies Blow: The British Soldier, Nature, the Great War
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John Lewis-Stempel (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 227 ratings
score: 99,
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The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore
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Benjamin Hale (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 2,660 ratings
score: 98,
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Les Misérables
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4.21 avg rating — 836,338 ratings
score: 98,
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Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace
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Harry Elmer Barnes (Editor)
4.33 avg rating — 36 ratings
score: 98,
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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
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Nick Bostrom (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 20,673 ratings
score: 98,
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Comedian Gone Wrong
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Jimmy Tudeski (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,456 ratings
score: 98,
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Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)
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3.74 avg rating — 94,069 ratings
score: 97,
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The Rising Sun: The Decline & Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-45
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4.30 avg rating — 6,018 ratings
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A Tale of Two Cities
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3.88 avg rating — 1,003,174 ratings
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The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It
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3.86 avg rating — 1,436 ratings
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
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3.97 avg rating — 73,285 ratings
score: 96,
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A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
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4.22 avg rating — 9,671 ratings
score: 96,
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
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4.22 avg rating — 146,235 ratings
score: 96,
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Hitler's Revolution
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4.43 avg rating — 180 ratings
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Singularity Rising: Surviving and Thriving in a Smarter, Richer, and More Dangerous World
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James D. Miller (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 164 ratings
score: 96,
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Inside the Third Reich
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4.10 avg rating — 14,237 ratings
score: 95,
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The Tortilla Curtain
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T. Coraghessan Boyle (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 34,260 ratings
score: 94,
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The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
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4.07 avg rating — 4,797 ratings
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Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip-Confessions of a Cynical Waiter
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3.55 avg rating — 14,494 ratings
score: 93,
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Hitler's Table Talk, 1941-1944
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Norman Cameron (Translator)
3.86 avg rating — 600 ratings
score: 93,
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Of Mice and Men
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3.89 avg rating — 2,784,725 ratings
score: 92,
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Daydream Believers
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Arun D. Ellis (Goodreads Author)
4.50 avg rating — 68 ratings
score: 92,
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Take Five: Four Favorite Essays Plus One Never-Been-Seen Essay
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Augusten Burroughs (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 659 ratings
score: 91,
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Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
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4.02 avg rating — 8,603 ratings
score: 91,
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Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
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3.98 avg rating — 14,019 ratings
score: 90,
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This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.
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Augusten Burroughs (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 13,179 ratings
score: 89,
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
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3.69 avg rating — 102,415 ratings
score: 88,
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How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
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Julia Alvarez (Goodreads Author)
3.62 avg rating — 32,454 ratings
score: 86,
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A Wolf at the Table
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Augusten Burroughs (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 29,980 ratings
score: 85,
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The Bell Jar
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4.05 avg rating — 1,183,536 ratings
score: 84,
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Possible Side Effects
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Augusten Burroughs (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 48,114 ratings
score: 83,
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1 person voted
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Magical Thinking: True Stories
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Augusten Burroughs (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 57,215 ratings
score: 81,
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Sellevision
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Augusten Burroughs (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 16,250 ratings
score: 80,
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You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas
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Augusten Burroughs (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 11,886 ratings
score: 79,
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