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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as big-brain)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,299,097 ratings — published 2011
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as big-brain)
avg rating 4.34 — 297,439 ratings — published 2014
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as big-brain)
avg rating 4.33 — 176,695 ratings — published 2019
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as big-brain)
avg rating 4.17 — 604,308 ratings — published 2011
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as big-brain)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,631,505 ratings — published 1948
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as big-brain)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,694,955 ratings — published 1945
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as big-brain)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,370,593 ratings — published 2018
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as big-brain)
avg rating 4.22 — 430,085 ratings — published 2003
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as big-brain)
avg rating 4.21 — 487,283 ratings — published 1988
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as big-brain)
avg rating 4.28 — 367,531 ratings — published 180
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as big-brain)
avg rating 4.05 — 250,844 ratings — published 1985
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as big-brain)
avg rating 3.80 — 123,549 ratings — published 2021
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as big-brain)
avg rating 4.14 — 30,694 ratings — published 1978
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 8 times as big-brain)
avg rating 4.18 — 292,535 ratings — published 2015
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as big-brain)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,957,786 ratings — published 1818
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as big-brain)
avg rating 4.35 — 186,947 ratings — published 2021
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as big-brain)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,174,406 ratings — published 1936
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as big-brain)
avg rating 4.37 — 912,267 ratings — published 1946
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as big-brain)
avg rating 4.04 — 466,216 ratings — published 1997
The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as big-brain)
avg rating 3.91 — 152,206 ratings — published 2013
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as big-brain)
avg rating 4.14 — 198,830 ratings — published 2014
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as big-brain)
avg rating 4.59 — 35,801 ratings — published 1981
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as big-brain)
avg rating 4.00 — 62,246 ratings — published -350
101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as big-brain)
avg rating 3.72 — 76,899 ratings — published 2016
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as big-brain)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,922,944 ratings — published 1963
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as big-brain)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,042,803 ratings — published 1925
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as big-brain)
avg rating 4.19 — 880,484 ratings — published 2008
The 48 Laws of Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as big-brain)
avg rating 4.08 — 236,486 ratings — published 1999
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as big-brain)
avg rating 3.69 — 204,762 ratings — published 1848
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as big-brain)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,468,508 ratings — published 1942
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as big-brain)
avg rating 4.33 — 260,501 ratings — published 2025
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as big-brain)
avg rating 4.49 — 37,747 ratings — published 2020
The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as big-brain)
avg rating 4.03 — 128,069 ratings — published 2020
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as big-brain)
avg rating 4.35 — 98,336 ratings — published 2015
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as big-brain)
avg rating 4.62 — 268,152 ratings — published 2014
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as big-brain)
avg rating 4.39 — 337,158 ratings — published 2012
Women Who Run With the Wolves (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as big-brain)
avg rating 4.10 — 99,768 ratings — published 1992
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as big-brain)
avg rating 4.02 — 79,281 ratings — published 2019
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as big-brain)
avg rating 4.45 — 676,382 ratings — published 1952
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as big-brain)
avg rating 4.07 — 481,192 ratings — published 2012
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as big-brain)
avg rating 4.29 — 185,856 ratings — published -350
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as big-brain)
avg rating 4.37 — 233,796 ratings — published 2017
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as big-brain)
avg rating 4.20 — 149,895 ratings — published 2007
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as big-brain)
avg rating 4.14 — 120,478 ratings — published 2020
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as big-brain)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,454,217 ratings — published 2016
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as big-brain)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,946,730 ratings — published 1890
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as big-brain)
avg rating 4.52 — 119,267 ratings — published 2010
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as big-brain)
avg rating 4.07 — 180,350 ratings — published 1883
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 5 times as big-brain)
avg rating 4.16 — 173,570 ratings — published 2018
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as big-brain)
avg rating 4.06 — 245,059 ratings — published 2003
“the average human brain varies from 1,200 to 1,600 c.c., that of the chimpanzee from 350 to 500 c.c. The biggest brains of all are found among the Buryats. If the 'white' race is a higher race than either the 'yellow' or the 'black' race, why is it that the biggest brain is not found among representatives of the Europeoid great race, but among the Buryats, who belong to the Mongoloid great race?”
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