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The Secret Gospel of Jesus, AD 0-78 (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.66 — 68 ratings — published 2020
The Alchemist (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 3,507,524 ratings — published 1988
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 217,510 ratings — published
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 505,411 ratings — published 1997
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 1,235,425 ratings — published 2011
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 850,202 ratings — published 2000
1984 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 5,355,977 ratings — published 1949
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 441,277 ratings — published 1997
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 1,179,542 ratings — published 1997
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 4,461,643 ratings — published 1945
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 325,979 ratings — published 2012
Educated (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 1,821,842 ratings — published 2018
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 793,865 ratings — published 2003
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 864,674 ratings — published 1922
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 857,234 ratings — published 1946
The Women (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.59 — 1,468,451 ratings — published 2024
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 180,409 ratings — published -350
The Philosophy of Cosmic Spirituality (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.83 — 41 ratings — published 2014
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 1,374,912 ratings — published 2016
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 362,320 ratings — published 2015
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.64 — 1,833,168 ratings — published 2006
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 418,213 ratings — published 2003
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 892,287 ratings — published 2005
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as enlightening)
avg rating 4.15 — 442,760 ratings — published 2022
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as enlightening)
avg rating 4.21 — 139,854 ratings — published 2007
Mere Christianity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 452,684 ratings — published 1952
The Gifts of Imperfection (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 218,974 ratings — published 2010
The Richest Man in Babylon (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 238,661 ratings — published 1926
Eating Animals (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 80,472 ratings — published 2009
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 618,924 ratings — published 2005
The Other Side of the Judeo-Christian History (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as enlightening)
avg rating 4.85 — 61 ratings — published 2011
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as enlightening)
avg rating 4.36 — 269,050 ratings — published 2014
Spare (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 423,448 ratings — published 2023
Paceville and Metanoia (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.54 — 46 ratings — published 2022
All About Love: New Visions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 130,744 ratings — published 1999
Becoming (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.44 — 1,180,715 ratings — published 2018
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,247,693 ratings — published 2018
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 124,728 ratings — published 2009
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 793,200 ratings — published 2016
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 64,930 ratings — published 2012
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.45 — 1,000,216 ratings — published 2017
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 617,448 ratings — published 2012
The Tao of Pooh (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 129,578 ratings — published 1982
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.41 — 789,714 ratings — published 2016
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 341,656 ratings — published 1990
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 389,813 ratings — published 2010
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 104,540 ratings — published 2009
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 857,096 ratings — published 2008
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 288,724 ratings — published 1965
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.45 — 1,713,004 ratings — published 2007
“They stood in the pool of lantern light, the house still around them. She placed a hand to calm his still heaving chest, the heat of his body fresh from travel. The coolness of her hand made him start, then he pulled her close. It was more than her body he needed.”
― Red Clay, Running Waters
― Red Clay, Running Waters
“She said, “My people of Oxford, you are suffering from the administration of Hugh le Despencer the Elder and his son called Hugh le Despencer the Younger! I have issued warrants for their arrest and bringing to trial for crimes of High Treason against both men and their partner in crime called Edmund Fitzalan! I urge all of you to inform my soldiers of the where-abouts of these men!”
― Isabella Warrior Queen
― Isabella Warrior Queen












