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avg rating 3.84 — 2,048,685 ratings — published 2022

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avg rating 4.09 — 4,463,277 ratings — published 2016

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avg rating 3.55 — 266,366 ratings — published 2020

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avg rating 3.51 — 77,174 ratings — published 2022

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avg rating 4.23 — 4,801 ratings — published 2009

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avg rating 4.23 — 13,665 ratings — published 1981

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avg rating 4.20 — 430 ratings — published 1961

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avg rating 4.22 — 325 ratings — published 1967

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avg rating 4.19 — 269 ratings — published 1964

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avg rating 4.53 — 501 ratings — published 1975

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avg rating 4.22 — 8,262 ratings — published 2016

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avg rating 4.18 — 229 ratings — published 1964

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avg rating 4.40 — 373 ratings — published 1992

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avg rating 3.40 — 368 ratings — published 2014

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avg rating 4.35 — 96 ratings — published 1978

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avg rating 4.33 — 82 ratings — published 1982

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avg rating 4.24 — 495 ratings — published 2014

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avg rating 3.69 — 404,085 ratings — published 1957

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avg rating 4.33 — 115 ratings — published 1973

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avg rating 4.22 — 957 ratings — published 2018

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avg rating 3.84 — 353 ratings — published 1995

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avg rating 4.62 — 32 ratings — published 2000

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avg rating 4.25 — 172 ratings — published 1999

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avg rating 4.36 — 67 ratings — published 1968

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avg rating 4.51 — 3,787 ratings — published 1989

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avg rating 4.00 — 496 ratings — published 1995

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avg rating 4.51 — 82,778 ratings — published 2023

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avg rating 4.44 — 120 ratings — published 2002

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avg rating 4.49 — 106 ratings — published 2010

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avg rating 4.55 — 898 ratings — published 2018

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avg rating 3.93 — 99 ratings — published 1994

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avg rating 3.86 — 1,361 ratings — published 2016

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avg rating 4.43 — 60 ratings — published 2011

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avg rating 4.11 — 56 ratings — published 1998

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avg rating 4.70 — 132 ratings — published 1990

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avg rating 4.27 — 125 ratings — published 1978

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avg rating 3.95 — 123 ratings — published 1981

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avg rating 4.22 — 54 ratings — published 2004

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avg rating 4.09 — 456 ratings — published 1994

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avg rating 4.31 — 48 ratings — published 1979

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avg rating 3.74 — 7,755 ratings — published 2005

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avg rating 4.24 — 38 ratings — published 1988

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avg rating 4.21 — 102 ratings — published 1999

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avg rating 4.24 — 62 ratings — published 2000

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avg rating 4.09 — 78 ratings — published 1987

by (shelved 3 times as atlas)
avg rating 4.21 — 111,844 ratings — published 2016

“Man’s mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is not. His mind is given to him, its content is not. To remain alive, he must act, and before he can act he must know the nature and purpose of his action. He cannot obtain his food without a knowledge of food and of the way to obtain it. He cannot dig a ditch – or build a cyclotron – without a knowledge of his aim and of the means to achieve it. To remain alive, he must think.
“But to think is an act of choice. The key to what you so recklessly call ‘human nature,’ the open secret you live with, yet dread to name, is the fact that man is a being of volitional consciousness. Reason does not work automatically; thinking is not a mechanical process; the connections of logic are not made by instinct. The function of your stomach, lungs, or heart is automatic; the function of your mind is not. In any hour and issue of your life, you are free to think or to evade that effort. But you are not free to escape from your nature, from the fact that reason is your means of survival – so that for you, who are a human being, the question ‘to be or not to be’ is the question ‘to think or not to think.’ . . .
“Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the face of alternatives by means of volitional choice. . . Man must obtain his knowledge and choose his actions by a process of thinking, which nature will not force him to perform. Man has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history (pages 1012-1013).”
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“But to think is an act of choice. The key to what you so recklessly call ‘human nature,’ the open secret you live with, yet dread to name, is the fact that man is a being of volitional consciousness. Reason does not work automatically; thinking is not a mechanical process; the connections of logic are not made by instinct. The function of your stomach, lungs, or heart is automatic; the function of your mind is not. In any hour and issue of your life, you are free to think or to evade that effort. But you are not free to escape from your nature, from the fact that reason is your means of survival – so that for you, who are a human being, the question ‘to be or not to be’ is the question ‘to think or not to think.’ . . .
“Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the face of alternatives by means of volitional choice. . . Man must obtain his knowledge and choose his actions by a process of thinking, which nature will not force him to perform. Man has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history (pages 1012-1013).”
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“He smiled. "This is all going into your book, isn't it?"
"I was not even thinking about my book," I said defensively--- I was only half lying. With my encyclopaedia complete, I have, as Wendell knows, turned my attention to another large project--- creating a mapbook of all the known faerie realms, as well as their doors. Such a book will be a patchwork thing, unavoidably so--- faerie realms are often attached to specific geographical locations in the mortal world, though only a few have been explored in a meaningful way--- but I wish to use it to argue Danielle de Grey's point: that the realms are more interconnected than previous scholarship has suggested. Finding evidence of the nexus would be the linchpin of the entire project.”
― Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
"I was not even thinking about my book," I said defensively--- I was only half lying. With my encyclopaedia complete, I have, as Wendell knows, turned my attention to another large project--- creating a mapbook of all the known faerie realms, as well as their doors. Such a book will be a patchwork thing, unavoidably so--- faerie realms are often attached to specific geographical locations in the mortal world, though only a few have been explored in a meaningful way--- but I wish to use it to argue Danielle de Grey's point: that the realms are more interconnected than previous scholarship has suggested. Finding evidence of the nexus would be the linchpin of the entire project.”
― Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands