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Ambition Books
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Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as ambition)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,035,193 ratings — published 1623
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,219,394 ratings — published 2017
Carrie Soto Is Back (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.20 — 739,386 ratings — published 2022
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as ambition)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,004,016 ratings — published 1925
The White Tiger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as ambition)
avg rating 3.77 — 204,424 ratings — published 2008
A Ladder to the Sky (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.20 — 42,645 ratings — published 2018
What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ambition)
avg rating 3.89 — 5,568 ratings — published 1994
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.49 — 1,016,817 ratings — published 2006
Status Anxiety (Vintage International)
by (shelved 4 times as ambition)
avg rating 3.89 — 22,064 ratings — published 2004
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.11 — 8,891 ratings — published 2012
Empire State of Mind: How Jay-Z Went From Street Corner to Corner Office (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ambition)
avg rating 3.64 — 1,612 ratings — published 2011
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.15 — 38,517 ratings — published 1998
Paths of Glory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.02 — 20,585 ratings — published 2009
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ambition)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,939,696 ratings — published 1818
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ambition)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,085,123 ratings — published 2023
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,402,108 ratings — published 2022
Morning Star (Red Rising Saga, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.55 — 427,243 ratings — published 2016
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ambition)
avg rating 3.71 — 380,576 ratings — published 1856
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)
by (shelved 3 times as ambition)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,229,724 ratings — published 2020
Rescuing Ambition (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ambition)
avg rating 3.95 — 644 ratings — published 2010
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.18 — 188,776 ratings — published 2019
The 4-Hour Workweek (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as ambition)
avg rating 3.91 — 337,546 ratings — published 2007
The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,104,549 ratings — published 2019
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,784,357 ratings — published 2018
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.27 — 851,336 ratings — published 2014
After the Fall: How Humpty Dumpty Got Back up Again (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.38 — 11,716 ratings — published 2017
A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.01 — 367,075 ratings — published 1968
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.34 — 648,864 ratings — published 2017
Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny! (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.15 — 76,231 ratings — published 1992
Fairest (The Lunar Chronicles, #3.5)
by (shelved 3 times as ambition)
avg rating 3.94 — 156,648 ratings — published 2015
Middlemarch (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.04 — 181,860 ratings — published 1872
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.08 — 62,320 ratings — published 2014
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ambition)
avg rating 3.94 — 581,863 ratings — published -500
The Kid Stays in the Picture (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ambition)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,439 ratings — published 1994
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ambition)
avg rating 3.80 — 882,410 ratings — published 1861
The 48 Laws of Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.08 — 233,207 ratings — published 1999
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,766,100 ratings — published 1996
Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ambition)
avg rating 3.76 — 12,389 ratings — published 2024
Spectacular Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.05 — 43,795 ratings — published 2025
Katabasis (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as ambition)
avg rating 3.75 — 152,447 ratings — published 2025
The Woman Upstairs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ambition)
avg rating 3.31 — 33,740 ratings — published 2013
Heir to the Shadows (The Black Jewels, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.31 — 29,860 ratings — published 1999
The Fury (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ambition)
avg rating 3.36 — 242,005 ratings — published 2024
A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as ambition)
avg rating 3.69 — 106,832 ratings — published 2023
The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.58 — 238,227 ratings — published 2023
When We Cease to Understand the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.09 — 66,443 ratings — published 2020
Icebreaker (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as ambition)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,335,696 ratings — published 2022
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ambition)
avg rating 3.59 — 262,066 ratings — published 1949
Light Bringer (Red Rising Saga, #6)
by (shelved 2 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.77 — 115,290 ratings — published 2023
The House of Eve (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.25 — 139,714 ratings — published 2023
“The most important thing for everyone in Gringolandia is to have ambition and become 'somebody,' and frankly, I don't have the least ambition to become anybody.”
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“We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time. Something rare and wonderful. It's almost historically unprecedented. We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.”
― A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
― A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
