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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,327,609 ratings — published 2011
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.16 — 616,034 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 — 576,740 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 — 867,552 ratings — published 2000
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.01 — 911,126 ratings — published 2005
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as brainy)
avg rating 3.96 — 630,828 ratings — published 2005
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.19 — 890,013 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 4.31 — 1,419,359 ratings — published 2018
Love on the Brain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as brainy)
avg rating 3.90 — 691,814 ratings — published 2022
The Love Hypothesis (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,109,758 ratings — published 2021
Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as brainy)
avg rating 3.97 — 11,237 ratings — published 2016
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,756,791 ratings — published 1949
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.50 — 189,345 ratings — published 2013
To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as brainy)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,574 ratings — published 1985
Love, Theoretically (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.08 — 737,561 ratings — published 2023
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as brainy)
avg rating 3.95 — 237,979 ratings — published 2023
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as brainy)
avg rating 3.91 — 121,137 ratings — published 2014
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.25 — 91,335 ratings — published 2018
All About Love: New Visions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as brainy)
avg rating 3.99 — 153,085 ratings — published 1999
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.08 — 147,720 ratings — published 2016
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as brainy)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,152,019 ratings — published 1932
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,422 ratings — published 2010
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as brainy)
avg rating 3.97 — 232,825 ratings — published -400
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.04 — 472,561 ratings — published 1997
Stories of Your Life and Others (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.25 — 132,583 ratings — published 2002
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.48 — 122,171 ratings — published 2010
Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as brainy)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,146 ratings — published 1938
Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales (Emily Wilde, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.07 — 67,627 ratings — published 2025
Hyperpolitik (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as brainy)
avg rating 3.78 — 2,438 ratings — published 2023
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.08 — 67,152 ratings — published 2012
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.20 — 574,768 ratings — published 2020
The Au Pair Affair (Big Shots, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as brainy)
avg rating 3.58 — 103,385 ratings — published 2024
Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.23 — 116,894 ratings — published 2024
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as brainy)
avg rating 3.77 — 512,396 ratings — published 2018
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.24 — 75,360 ratings — published 1934
Sophie’s World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as brainy)
avg rating 3.97 — 291,612 ratings — published 1991
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.52 — 167,923 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 — 42,420 ratings — published 2021
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.35 — 66,151 ratings — published 2020
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,175,722 ratings — published 2011
A Place of Greater Safety (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.01 — 12,716 ratings — published 1992
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.00 — 344,356 ratings — published 2019
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.14 — 418,874 ratings — published 2014
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.15 — 474,048 ratings — published 1997
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.05 — 98,222 ratings — published 2005
Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.04 — 8,958 ratings — published 2020
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.19 — 69,193 ratings — published 2012
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as brainy)
avg rating 4.08 — 536,285 ratings — published 2006
How the Brain Lost Its Mind: Sex, Hysteria, and the Riddle of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as brainy)
avg rating 3.62 — 537 ratings — published 2019
“Instead of being regarded as intelligent or knowledgeable, many a woman would rather be regarded as beautiful or good in the kitchen; many a man, as handsome or good in bed.”
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“A brainstorm about the difference between rain and brain: a b, although both are juicy like water... but if it rained in the brain would that mean that ocurred a brainwash? and if so what would be the cure for that?? That's rough for sure. But if the rain plays mainly in the land would it land instead of fail to fall?? What's the meaning of it all? i'm a brainiac with some brainy thoughts..”
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