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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as factual)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,301,662 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as factual)
avg rating 4.22 — 430,626 ratings — published 2003
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as factual)
avg rating 4.21 — 487,850 ratings — published 1988
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as factual)
avg rating 4.06 — 45,183 ratings — published 2008
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as factual)
avg rating 4.33 — 177,191 ratings — published 2019
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as factual)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,274,927 ratings — published 1947
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as factual)
avg rating 3.95 — 159,029 ratings — published 2011
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor (ebook)
by (shelved 16 times as factual)
avg rating 4.39 — 338,588 ratings — published 2017
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as factual)
avg rating 4.17 — 605,412 ratings — published 2011
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as factual)
avg rating 3.99 — 99,602 ratings — published 2010
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as factual)
avg rating 4.14 — 199,042 ratings — published 2014
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as factual)
avg rating 4.01 — 906,081 ratings — published 2005
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as factual)
avg rating 3.90 — 286,368 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 — 204,914 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 — 121,846 ratings — published 2015
Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as factual)
avg rating 4.32 — 50,101 ratings — published 2018
The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as factual)
avg rating 3.73 — 39,281 ratings — published 2015
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as factual)
avg rating 4.13 — 819,628 ratings — published 2010
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as factual)
avg rating 4.19 — 881,410 ratings — published 2008
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as factual)
avg rating 4.05 — 251,148 ratings — published 1985
Notes from a Small Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as factual)
avg rating 3.92 — 121,150 ratings — published 1995
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as factual)
avg rating 4.31 — 102,864 ratings — published 2019
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as factual)
avg rating 4.07 — 481,623 ratings — published 2012
So You've Been Publicly Shamed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as factual)
avg rating 3.93 — 66,379 ratings — published 2015
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as factual)
avg rating 4.09 — 9,441 ratings — published 2012
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as factual)
avg rating 4.04 — 466,847 ratings — published 1997
The Fry Chronicles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as factual)
avg rating 3.85 — 23,096 ratings — published 2010
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as factual)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,211,518 ratings — published 1996
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as factual)
avg rating 4.40 — 161,818 ratings — published 1980
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as factual)
avg rating 4.09 — 745,862 ratings — published 1966
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 — 4,373 ratings — published 2010
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as factual)
avg rating 3.94 — 587,469 ratings — published -500
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as factual)
avg rating 4.01 — 123,675 ratings — published 1859
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as factual)
avg rating 4.16 — 195,849 ratings — published 1976
Shakespeare: The World as Stage (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as factual)
avg rating 3.82 — 49,773 ratings — published 2007
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 — 1,457,291 ratings — published 2016
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as factual)
avg rating 4.37 — 234,206 ratings — published 2017
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as factual)
avg rating 3.91 — 44,748 ratings — published 1990
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as factual)
avg rating 4.16 — 633,213 ratings — published 2012
A Street Cat Named Bob (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as factual)
avg rating 3.99 — 61,558 ratings — published 2012
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as factual)
avg rating 4.06 — 245,411 ratings — published 2003
My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as factual)
avg rating 4.16 — 65,209 ratings — published 1956
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as factual)
avg rating 4.30 — 126,925 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 4.04 — 24,272 ratings — published 2010
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as factual)
avg rating 4.46 — 102,767 ratings — published 2009
The Book of General Ignorance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as factual)
avg rating 3.75 — 11,279 ratings — published 2006
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as factual)
avg rating 3.84 — 392,802 ratings — published 1532
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as factual)
avg rating 4.07 — 452,843 ratings — published 1998
Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as factual)
avg rating 4.11 — 34,941 ratings — published 2023
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as factual)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,225,388 ratings — published 2018
“i’ve already been in the royal box”
― Red, White & Royal Blue
― Red, White & Royal Blue
“To be “matter of fact” about the world is to blunder into fantasy--and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.”
― The Notebooks of Lazarus Long
― The Notebooks of Lazarus Long
