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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,334,893 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as fact)
avg rating 4.21 — 437,076 ratings — published 2003
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as fact)
avg rating 4.35 — 207,409 ratings — published 2018
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as fact)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,342,548 ratings — published 1947
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as fact)
avg rating 4.04 — 474,416 ratings — published 1997
The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as fact)
avg rating 3.90 — 288,695 ratings — published 2006
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as fact)
avg rating 4.21 — 494,838 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 — 125,792 ratings — published 2015
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 619,541 ratings — published 2011
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.31 — 1,432,436 ratings — published 2018
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 831,154 ratings — published 2010
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 912,852 ratings — published 2005
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
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avg rating 4.18 — 296,716 ratings — published 2015
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 1,198,701 ratings — published 1936
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 198,383 ratings — published 1976
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as fact)
avg rating 4.37 — 102,392 ratings — published 2017
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 183,548 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 — 255,244 ratings — published 1985
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 758,529 ratings — published 1966
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 892,918 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)
by (shelved 7 times as fact)
avg rating 3.90 — 278,478 ratings — published 2018
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 944,087 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 — 118,877 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)
by (shelved 7 times as fact)
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 — 57,144 ratings — published 2009
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.02 — 1,228,449 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 — 181,081 ratings — published 2017
The Art of War (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 600,306 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 — 243,379 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 — 291,338 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 — 342,678 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
