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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,338,931 ratings — published 2011
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 621,244 ratings — published 2011
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.13 — 580,014 ratings — published 2012
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.01 — 869,954 ratings — published 2000
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.01 — 913,573 ratings — published 2005
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 632,643 ratings — published 2005
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 894,269 ratings — published 2008
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,439,807 ratings — published 2018
Love on the Brain (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.90 — 705,178 ratings — published 2022
The Love Hypothesis (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 2,216,867 ratings — published 2021
Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 11,284 ratings — published 2016
1984 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 5,810,059 ratings — published 1949
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 192,611 ratings — published 2013
Brave New World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 2,165,675 ratings — published 1932
To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.68 — 2,589 ratings — published 1985
Love, Theoretically (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 756,857 ratings — published 2023
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
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avg rating 3.95 — 242,669 ratings — published 2023
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 121,456 ratings — published 2014
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 91,972 ratings — published 2018
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
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avg rating 4.08 — 543,691 ratings — published 2006
All About Love: New Visions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 156,240 ratings — published 1999
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 148,809 ratings — published 2016
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.52 — 120,900 ratings — published 2010
The Republic (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 234,558 ratings — published -400
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 475,514 ratings — published 1997
Stories of Your Life and Others (ebook)
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avg rating 4.25 — 133,884 ratings — published 2002
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 123,093 ratings — published 2010
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 35,357 ratings — published 1961
Confessions (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 80,225 ratings — published 400
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 3,859 ratings — published 1993
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 17,116 ratings — published 1983
Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 3,181 ratings — published 1938
Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales (Emily Wilde, #3)
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avg rating 4.07 — 69,552 ratings — published 2025
Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 3,687 ratings — published 2023
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 67,909 ratings — published 2012
Piranesi (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 599,970 ratings — published 2020
The Au Pair Affair (Big Shots, #2)
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avg rating 3.58 — 105,064 ratings — published 2024
Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)
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avg rating 4.23 — 119,275 ratings — published 2024
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 518,101 ratings — published 2018
The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
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avg rating 4.40 — 245,098 ratings — published 2008
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
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avg rating 4.24 — 75,833 ratings — published 1934
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.32 — 7,839 ratings — published 1992
Sophie’s World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 293,652 ratings — published 1991
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.52 — 169,608 ratings — published 2020
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.69 — 42,844 ratings — published 2021
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 66,554 ratings — published 2020
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 2,208,944 ratings — published 2011
A Place of Greater Safety (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 12,895 ratings — published 1992
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 345,826 ratings — published 2019
“I conquer you without a fight,
I steal your strength, but grant you light.
I make you fall, yet help you rise,
I wound your heart to open your eyes.
I take your ground, I make you switch
I ask for all, yet leave you rich,
I am the loss that feels like gain,
The quiet joy inside your pain.
Who am I?”
― Mind-Bending Riddles Inspired by Philosophy | With Answers and Explanations | Philosophical Riddles | Philosophy in Rhymes : From Plato, Socrates, Lao Tzu, the Stoics, Epicurus, Buddhism, Rumi
I steal your strength, but grant you light.
I make you fall, yet help you rise,
I wound your heart to open your eyes.
I take your ground, I make you switch
I ask for all, yet leave you rich,
I am the loss that feels like gain,
The quiet joy inside your pain.
Who am I?”
― Mind-Bending Riddles Inspired by Philosophy | With Answers and Explanations | Philosophical Riddles | Philosophy in Rhymes : From Plato, Socrates, Lao Tzu, the Stoics, Epicurus, Buddhism, Rumi
“Religion is an experience, not a bunch of doctrines.”
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