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Ada Twist, Scientist (The Questioneers (Picture Books) #3)
by (shelved 22 times as curiosity)
avg rating 4.47 — 8,950 ratings — published 2016
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as curiosity)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,317,022 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as curiosity)
avg rating 4.21 — 433,495 ratings — published 2003
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as curiosity)
avg rating 4.14 — 200,238 ratings — published 2014
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as curiosity)
avg rating 4.08 — 215,187 ratings — published 2017
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as curiosity)
avg rating 4.17 — 611,768 ratings — published 2011
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as curiosity)
avg rating 4.16 — 196,955 ratings — published 1976
Just Because (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as curiosity)
avg rating 3.80 — 2,230 ratings — published 2019
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as curiosity)
avg rating 4.36 — 236,607 ratings — published 2017
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as curiosity)
avg rating 4.19 — 886,568 ratings — published 2008
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as curiosity)
avg rating 4.01 — 909,126 ratings — published 2005
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as curiosity)
avg rating 4.21 — 491,121 ratings — published 1988
Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as curiosity)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,146 ratings — published 2014
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as curiosity)
avg rating 3.96 — 629,551 ratings — published 2005
Curious George (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as curiosity)
avg rating 4.17 — 140,983 ratings — published 1941
A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as curiosity)
avg rating 3.41 — 6,431 ratings — published 2014
Areté: Activate Your Heroic Potential (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as curiosity)
avg rating 4.56 — 1,641 ratings — published 2023
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as curiosity)
avg rating 4.33 — 180,053 ratings — published 2019
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as curiosity)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,143,338 ratings — published 1866
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as curiosity)
avg rating 4.31 — 54,833 ratings — published 2020
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as curiosity)
avg rating 4.35 — 205,988 ratings — published 2018
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as curiosity)
avg rating 3.94 — 592,914 ratings — published -500
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as curiosity)
avg rating 4.40 — 162,867 ratings — published 1980
The Cow Who Climbed a Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as curiosity)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,250 ratings — published 2013
Toys Meet Snow: Being the Wintertime Adventures of a Curious Stuffed Buffalo, a Sensitive Plush Stingray, and a Book-loving Rubber Ball (Toys, #Companion Picture Book)
by (shelved 8 times as curiosity)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,157 ratings — published 2015
The Heart and the Bottle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as curiosity)
avg rating 4.38 — 6,924 ratings — published 2010
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as curiosity)
avg rating 4.04 — 470,255 ratings — published 1997
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as curiosity)
avg rating 4.01 — 865,746 ratings — published 2000
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as curiosity)
avg rating 4.19 — 28,407 ratings — published 2021
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as curiosity)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,636,252 ratings — published 2020
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as curiosity)
avg rating 4.21 — 183,077 ratings — published 1984
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as curiosity)
avg rating 4.15 — 181,518 ratings — published 2018
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as curiosity)
avg rating 4.31 — 103,967 ratings — published 2019
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as curiosity)
avg rating 4.25 — 90,747 ratings — published 2018
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as curiosity)
avg rating 4.37 — 928,117 ratings — published 1946
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as curiosity)
avg rating 4.06 — 621,454 ratings — published 1871
Windows (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as curiosity)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,790 ratings — published 2017
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as curiosity)
avg rating 4.33 — 305,042 ratings — published 2014
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as curiosity)
avg rating 4.17 — 33,355 ratings — published 2016
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as curiosity)
avg rating 4.29 — 53,740 ratings — published 1979
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as curiosity)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,962,603 ratings — published 2005
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as curiosity)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,107,176 ratings — published 1992
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as curiosity)
avg rating 3.87 — 973,049 ratings — published 1955
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as curiosity)
avg rating 4.13 — 824,763 ratings — published 2010
Seek: How Curiosity Can Transform Your Life and Change the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as curiosity)
avg rating 3.67 — 554 ratings — published
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as curiosity)
avg rating 4.37 — 33,957 ratings — published 2017
The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as curiosity)
avg rating 4.27 — 356,989 ratings — published 2020
Wonder Walkers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as curiosity)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,953 ratings — published 2021
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as curiosity)
avg rating 4.14 — 122,477 ratings — published 2020
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as curiosity)
avg rating 4.22 — 58,966 ratings — published 2018
“There are young men and women up and down the land who happily (or unhappily) tell anyone who will listen that they don’t have an academic turn of mind, or that they aren’t lucky enough to have been blessed with a good memory, and yet can recite hundreds of pop lyrics and reel off any amount of information about footballers. Why? Because they are interested in those things. They are curious. If you are hungry for food, you are prepared to hunt high and low for it. If you are hungry for information it is the same. Information is all around us, now more than ever before in human history. You barely have to stir or incommode yourself to find things out. The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.”
― The Fry Chronicles
― The Fry Chronicles
“Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.”
― Works of Samuel Johnson. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, A Grammar of the English Tongue, Preface to Shakespeare, Lives of the English Poets & more [improved 11/20/2010]
― Works of Samuel Johnson. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, A Grammar of the English Tongue, Preface to Shakespeare, Lives of the English Poets & more [improved 11/20/2010]
