Kent Donlan's votes on the list Totally Amazing Books That Should Be Read By Everybody!

Listopia > Kent Donlan's votes on the list Totally Amazing Books That Should Be Read By Everybody! (56 Books)

1	David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell 3.97 avg rating — 193,499 ratings Kent 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
2	Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson (Goodreads Author) 3.89 avg rating — 177,716 ratings Kent 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
3	The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World by Steve Brusatte 4.21 avg rating — 42,432 ratings Kent 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	The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum 4.02 avg rating — 37,840 ratings Kent 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	The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman (Goodreads Author) 3.49 avg rating — 92,545 ratings Kent 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
6	Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks 3.95 avg rating — 75,606 ratings Kent 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
7	Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom (Goodreads Author) 4.21 avg rating — 1,239,767 ratings Kent 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	Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog by John Grogan 4.14 avg rating — 478,167 ratings Kent 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
9	How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie 4.21 avg rating — 1,174,918 ratings Kent 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
10	An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison (Goodreads Author) 4.06 avg rating — 87,184 ratings Kent 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
11	Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass 4.13 avg rating — 137,465 ratings Kent 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
12	The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene (Goodreads Author) 4.08 avg rating — 236,720 ratings Kent 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
13	Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit 3.83 avg rating — 89,359 ratings Kent 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
14	Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion 4.18 avg rating — 86,240 ratings Kent 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
15	Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku 4.09 avg rating — 41,907 ratings Kent 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
16	The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama (Goodreads Author) 3.84 avg rating — 170,800 ratings Kent 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
17	The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks 4.05 avg rating — 250,928 ratings Kent 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
18	Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson 3.85 avg rating — 79,935 ratings Kent 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
19	Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow 4.22 avg rating — 204,020 ratings Kent 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
20	A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy by Sue Klebold 4.14 avg rating — 47,533 ratings Kent 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
21	Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture by Peggy Orenstein 3.67 avg rating — 16,184 ratings Kent 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
22	Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck 4.08 avg rating — 110,146 ratings Kent 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
23	Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama (Goodreads Author) 3.94 avg rating — 232,342 ratings Kent 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	In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan (Goodreads Author) 4.07 avg rating — 120,209 ratings Kent 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
25	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death by Jean-Dominique Bauby 3.98 avg rating — 78,639 ratings Kent 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
26	Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff (Goodreads Author) 3.73 avg rating — 124,619 ratings Kent 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
27	A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1) by Dave Pelzer (Goodreads Author) 4.14 avg rating — 464,848 ratings Kent 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
28	The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell 4.12 avg rating — 45,834 ratings Kent 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
29	Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden (Goodreads Author) 4.01 avg rating — 72,992 ratings Kent 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
30	On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder (Goodreads Author) 4.29 avg rating — 114,798 ratings Kent 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
31	Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright (Goodreads Author) 4.04 avg rating — 45,475 ratings Kent 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
32	Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein 3.83 avg rating — 36,984 ratings Kent 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
33	The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman 3.69 avg rating — 102,717 ratings Kent 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
34	Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt 3.91 avg rating — 300,597 ratings Kent 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
35	The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann (Goodreads Author) 3.90 avg rating — 113,467 ratings Kent 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	He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys by Greg Behrendt (Goodreads Author) 3.66 avg rating — 67,374 ratings Kent 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
37	The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs (Goodreads Author) 3.76 avg rating — 29,916 ratings Kent 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
38	Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks 4.16 avg rating — 29,294 ratings Kent 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
39	Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality by Christopher Ryan (Goodreads Author) 3.97 avg rating — 32,011 ratings Kent 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
40	Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali 4.20 avg rating — 93,232 ratings Kent 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
41	Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel 4.14 avg rating — 410,242 ratings Kent 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
42	Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi 4.06 avg rating — 155,579 ratings Kent 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
44	Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand 4.39 avg rating — 1,009,858 ratings Kent 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
46	The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra by Helen Rappaport (Goodreads Author) 3.89 avg rating — 24,769 ratings Kent 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
47	Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon 4.27 avg rating — 22,830 ratings Kent 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
48	Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman (Goodreads Author) 3.72 avg rating — 207,190 ratings Kent 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
49	On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King (Goodreads Author) 4.34 avg rating — 323,831 ratings Kent 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
50	The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century by Ian Mortimer (Goodreads Author) 4.02 avg rating — 26,977 ratings Kent 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
51	The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X 4.37 avg rating — 296,341 ratings Kent 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
52	Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus by John Gray 3.58 avg rating — 201,483 ratings Kent 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
53	The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene 4.12 avg rating — 41,212 ratings Kent 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
54	The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't by Nate Silver 3.97 avg rating — 52,842 ratings Kent 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
55	Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath 3.98 avg rating — 100,724 ratings Kent 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
56	Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick (Goodreads Author) 4.46 avg rating — 102,630 ratings Kent 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
57	The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright (Goodreads Author) 4.36 avg rating — 38,625 ratings Kent 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
58	Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler 3.84 avg rating — 168,805 ratings Kent 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