Jay R. shepard's votes on the list Best Books of the 21st Century

Listopia > Jay R. shepard's votes on the list Best Books of the 21st Century (47 Books)

1	Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts (Goodreads Author) 4.28 avg rating — 240,169 ratings Jay R. rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Freedom by Jonathan Franzen 3.80 avg rating — 175,403 ratings Jay R. rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	11/22/63 by Stephen King (Goodreads Author) 4.35 avg rating — 656,591 ratings Jay R. rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell 3.96 avg rating — 623,020 ratings Jay R. rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	A Million Little Pieces by James Frey 3.69 avg rating — 263,762 ratings Jay R. rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (Goodreads Author) 4.05 avg rating — 315,594 ratings Jay R. added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich 3.65 avg rating — 195,612 ratings Jay R. rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin 4.28 avg rating — 200,455 ratings Jay R. rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris 3.89 avg rating — 43,491 ratings Jay R. rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama (Goodreads Author) 3.84 avg rating — 169,882 ratings Jay R. rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman 3.69 avg rating — 102,554 ratings Jay R. rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Dreamcatcher by Stephen King (Goodreads Author) 3.66 avg rating — 186,530 ratings Jay R. rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson (Goodreads Author) 4.16 avg rating — 1,361,984 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell 4.19 avg rating — 868,671 ratings Jay R. rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance by Noam Chomsky 3.98 avg rating — 14,104 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain (Goodreads Author) 4.08 avg rating — 475,927 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai (Goodreads Author) 4.16 avg rating — 624,694 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann 4.12 avg rating — 21,033 ratings Jay R. added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein 4.30 avg rating — 53,949 ratings Jay R. rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	The Forever War by Dexter Filkins 4.14 avg rating — 11,472 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee 4.34 avg rating — 114,633 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt 3.87 avg rating — 35,283 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Medicus (Gaius Petreius Ruso, #1) by Ruth Downie (Goodreads Author) 3.76 avg rating — 9,522 ratings Jay R. rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson (Goodreads Author) 4.48 avg rating — 117,267 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman 3.65 avg rating — 7,162 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell 3.85 avg rating — 105,026 ratings Jay R. added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker (Goodreads Author) 3.91 avg rating — 11,214 ratings Jay R. added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	A World Perspective through 21st Century Eyes by R.K. Koslowsky 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values by Sam Harris 3.90 avg rating — 24,342 ratings Jay R. added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris 4.08 avg rating — 217,750 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	The Essential Difference: Male And Female Brains And The Truth About Autism by Simon Baron-Cohen 3.63 avg rating — 934 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	Physics of the Future: The Inventions That Will Transform Our Lives by Michio Kaku really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 18,096 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Jared Diamond 3.78 avg rating — 11,061 ratings Jay R. added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	The 10000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution by Gregory Cochran 3.95 avg rating — 1,854 ratings Jay R. added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	Darwin, His Daughter, and Human Evolution by Randal Keynes 3.92 avg rating — 397 ratings Jay R. rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	Will Storr vs. The Supernatural: One Man's Search for the Truth About Ghosts – A Confirmed Skeptic's Bizarre Odyssey Through Séances, Vatican Exorcists, and the Hilariously Creepy Side of Mediums by Will Storr 3.91 avg rating — 1,199 ratings Jay R. added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior (A Harvest Book) by Temple Grandin 4.15 avg rating — 9,958 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights by Thom Hartmann 4.20 avg rating — 630 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present by Eric R. Kandel 4.21 avg rating — 1,851 ratings Jay R. added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker (Goodreads Author) 4.16 avg rating — 29,637 ratings Jay R. added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	Conservatives Without Conscience by John W. Dean 3.99 avg rating — 1,750 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Mapping Human History: Discovering the Past Through Our Genes by Steve Olson (Goodreads Author) 3.94 avg rating — 1,061 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	On Democracy & Education by Noam Chomsky 3.96 avg rating — 108 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman 3.71 avg rating — 13,944 ratings Jay R. rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson 3.95 avg rating — 157,711 ratings Jay R. added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story by Jim Holt 3.81 avg rating — 6,849 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor 3.92 avg rating — 32,615 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars