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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,314,581 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as factual)
avg rating 4.21 — 433,034 ratings — published 2003
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 490,565 ratings — published 1988
Bad Science (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 45,271 ratings — published 2008
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 179,596 ratings — published 2019
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 4,302,517 ratings — published 1947
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 159,469 ratings — published 2011
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor (ebook)
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avg rating 4.39 — 341,083 ratings — published 2017
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 610,756 ratings — published 2011
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 99,873 ratings — published 2010
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 200,069 ratings — published 2014
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 908,615 ratings — published 2005
The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 287,263 ratings — published 2006
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 — 205,811 ratings — published 2018
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 4.19 — 123,246 ratings — published 2015
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as factual)
avg rating 4.04 — 252,651 ratings — published 1985
Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.32 — 50,602 ratings — published 2018
The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 39,458 ratings — published 2015
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 823,967 ratings — published 2010
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 885,743 ratings — published 2008
Notes from a Small Island (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 121,544 ratings — published 1995
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 103,793 ratings — published 2019
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 483,578 ratings — published 2012
So You've Been Publicly Shamed (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 66,550 ratings — published 2015
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 9,467 ratings — published 2012
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 469,718 ratings — published 1997
The Fry Chronicles (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 23,124 ratings — published 2010
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.02 — 1,218,107 ratings — published 1996
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 162,719 ratings — published 1980
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 750,455 ratings — published 1966
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 247,051 ratings — published 2003
The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 4,393 ratings — published 2010
The Art of War (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 591,938 ratings — published -500
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 124,128 ratings — published 1859
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 196,781 ratings — published 1976
Shakespeare: The World as Stage (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 49,960 ratings — published 2007
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 1,472,367 ratings — published 2016
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 236,244 ratings — published 2017
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 44,882 ratings — published 1990
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 — 636,190 ratings — published 2012
Them: Adventures with Extremists (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 23,198 ratings — published 2001
A Street Cat Named Bob (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 61,818 ratings — published 2012
My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 4.16 — 65,897 ratings — published 1956
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 127,937 ratings — published 1991
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 24,499 ratings — published 2010
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.46 — 103,970 ratings — published 2009
The Book of General Ignorance (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 11,300 ratings — published 2006
The Prince (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 397,261 ratings — published 1513
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 455,647 ratings — published 1998
Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.11 — 35,947 ratings — published 2023
“People will teach you how to treat them.”
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“The true test of character is not how you act when things are going well, but how you handle yourself in times of crisis.”
― Rainbow Six
― Rainbow Six
