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The Old Man and the Sea
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3.81 avg rating — 1,303,771 ratings
"Masterpiece. Still rocked by what a true warrior Hemingway must have been to write the best fishing story ever told.
Hemingway was awarded the 1954 Nobel prize "for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style"[55]"
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
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4.26 avg rating — 217,086 ratings
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The Grand Design
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4.06 avg rating — 77,268 ratings
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Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
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Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension
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4.15 avg rating — 24,191 ratings
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The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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4.10 avg rating — 1,477,235 ratings
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A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
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3.89 avg rating — 52,479 ratings
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The Art of War in the Middle Ages: A.D. 378-1515
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3.85 avg rating — 293 ratings
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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4.01 avg rating — 895,113 ratings
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SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
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