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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as factual)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,271,575 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as factual)
avg rating 4.22 — 424,527 ratings — published 2003
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as factual)
avg rating 4.21 — 481,398 ratings — published 1988
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as factual)
avg rating 4.06 — 44,932 ratings — published 2008
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as factual)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,212,466 ratings — published 1947
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as factual)
avg rating 4.34 — 170,573 ratings — published 2019
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as factual)
avg rating 4.17 — 592,771 ratings — published 2011
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as factual)
avg rating 3.95 — 157,874 ratings — published 2011
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor (ebook)
by (shelved 16 times as factual)
avg rating 4.40 — 332,258 ratings — published 2017
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as factual)
avg rating 4.01 — 899,732 ratings — published 2005
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as factual)
avg rating 3.99 — 98,797 ratings — published 2010
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as factual)
avg rating 3.90 — 284,033 ratings — published 2006
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as factual)
avg rating 4.35 — 202,585 ratings — published 2018
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as factual)
avg rating 4.19 — 118,107 ratings — published 2015
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as factual)
avg rating 4.14 — 196,567 ratings — published 2014
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as factual)
avg rating 4.19 — 870,589 ratings — published 2008
Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as factual)
avg rating 4.32 — 48,564 ratings — published 2018
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as factual)
avg rating 4.04 — 459,795 ratings — published 1997
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as factual)
avg rating 4.13 — 808,201 ratings — published 2010
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as factual)
avg rating 4.05 — 247,477 ratings — published 1985
Notes from a Small Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as factual)
avg rating 3.92 — 120,066 ratings — published 1995
The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as factual)
avg rating 3.72 — 38,828 ratings — published 2015
So You've Been Publicly Shamed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as factual)
avg rating 3.93 — 65,942 ratings — published 2015
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as factual)
avg rating 4.10 — 9,310 ratings — published 2012
The Fry Chronicles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as factual)
avg rating 3.85 — 22,926 ratings — published 2010
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as factual)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,197,225 ratings — published 1996
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as factual)
avg rating 4.31 — 100,204 ratings — published 2019
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as factual)
avg rating 4.09 — 733,292 ratings — published 1966
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as factual)
avg rating 4.07 — 476,748 ratings — published 2012
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as factual)
avg rating 4.06 — 241,452 ratings — published 2003
The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as factual)
avg rating 3.81 — 4,307 ratings — published 2010
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as factual)
avg rating 3.94 — 575,385 ratings — published -500
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as factual)
avg rating 4.40 — 159,586 ratings — published 1980
Shakespeare: The World as Stage (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as factual)
avg rating 3.82 — 49,147 ratings — published 2007
Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as factual)
avg rating 4.12 — 32,469 ratings — published 2023
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as factual)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,420,968 ratings — published 2016
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as factual)
avg rating 3.91 — 44,355 ratings — published 1990
A Street Cat Named Bob (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 60,589 ratings — published 2012
My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as factual)
avg rating 4.16 — 64,022 ratings — published 1956
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as factual)
avg rating 4.30 — 124,407 ratings — published 1991
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as factual)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,699 ratings — published 2010
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as factual)
avg rating 4.46 — 100,394 ratings — published 2009
The Book of General Ignorance (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 11,163 ratings — published 2006
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 122,388 ratings — published 1859
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 193,459 ratings — published 1976
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as factual)
avg rating 4.07 — 447,343 ratings — published 1998
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as factual)
avg rating 4.32 — 51,690 ratings — published 2020
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as factual)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,204,471 ratings — published 2018
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as factual)
avg rating 4.09 — 68,331 ratings — published 2019
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 228,434 ratings — published 2017
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