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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,334,898 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 437,077 ratings — published 2003
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 207,409 ratings — published 2018
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 4,342,559 ratings — published 1947
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 474,419 ratings — published 1997
The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as fact)
avg rating 3.90 — 288,696 ratings — published 2006
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 494,841 ratings — published 1988
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
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avg rating 4.18 — 125,793 ratings — published 2015
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 619,543 ratings — published 2011
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.30 — 1,432,446 ratings — published 2018
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 831,157 ratings — published 2010
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 912,853 ratings — published 2005
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
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avg rating 4.18 — 296,717 ratings — published 2015
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 1,198,706 ratings — published 1936
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 198,384 ratings — published 1976
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 102,393 ratings — published 2017
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 183,549 ratings — published 2019
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 201,669 ratings — published 2014
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 255,245 ratings — published 1985
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 758,533 ratings — published 1966
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 892,919 ratings — published 2008
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 45,116 ratings — published 1990
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 278,478 ratings — published 2018
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 944,091 ratings — published 1946
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 67,617 ratings — published 2012
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 118,878 ratings — published 2010
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 29,655 ratings — published 1999
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 224,183 ratings — published 1985
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 57,143 ratings — published 2009
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.02 — 1,228,452 ratings — published 1996
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 249,776 ratings — published 2003
Mythos - The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
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avg rating 4.25 — 181,082 ratings — published 2017
The Art of War (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 600,309 ratings — published -500
Surrounded by Idiots (Audiobook)
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avg rating 3.51 — 84,839 ratings — published 2014
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 113,475 ratings — published 2014
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 486,664 ratings — published 2012
Notes from a Small Island (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 122,190 ratings — published 1995
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 328,872 ratings — published 2000
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 243,380 ratings — published 2023
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 84,233 ratings — published 2019
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 31,071 ratings — published 2016
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
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avg rating 4.11 — 273,010 ratings — published 2018
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 291,340 ratings — published 2018
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 312,072 ratings — published 2014
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 182,849 ratings — published 2018
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 108,857 ratings — published 2018
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 342,680 ratings — published 2012
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 — 641,027 ratings — published 2012
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 185,393 ratings — published 1984
“It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again."
"Yes, it is very true, that. And it is just what some people will not do. They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it aside. But it is always the facts that will not fit in that are significant.”
― Death on the Nile
"Yes, it is very true, that. And it is just what some people will not do. They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it aside. But it is always the facts that will not fit in that are significant.”
― Death on the Nile
“Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.”
― Under the Glacier
― Under the Glacier
