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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as gates)
avg rating 4.35 — 205,125 ratings — published 2018
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as gates)
avg rating 4.17 — 133,486 ratings — published 2017
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as gates)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,891 ratings — published 2010
The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as gates)
avg rating 4.01 — 603,684 ratings — published 2013
Origin Story: A Big History of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as gates)
avg rating 4.06 — 7,781 ratings — published 2008
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as gates)
avg rating 3.95 — 21,762 ratings — published 2014
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as gates)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,933,751 ratings — published 2018
Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as gates)
avg rating 3.80 — 54,388 ratings — published 2018
Business adventures (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 24,738 ratings — published 1969
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as gates)
avg rating 4.37 — 234,705 ratings — published 2017
The Headspace Guide to Meditation & Mindfulness (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as gates)
avg rating 4.03 — 13,456 ratings — published 2011
Seveneves (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as gates)
avg rating 4.00 — 127,081 ratings — published 2015
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as gates)
avg rating 4.31 — 692,124 ratings — published 2016
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems (ebook)
by (shelved 15 times as gates)
avg rating 4.22 — 15,078 ratings — published 2019
Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities (Mit Press)
by (shelved 15 times as gates)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,182 ratings — published 2019
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as gates)
avg rating 4.01 — 272,956 ratings — published 2004
These Truths: A History of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as gates)
avg rating 4.40 — 13,954 ratings — published 2018
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as gates)
avg rating 4.15 — 180,794 ratings — published 2018
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as gates)
avg rating 4.19 — 32,879 ratings — published 2018
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as gates)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,304,797 ratings — published 2011
Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as gates)
avg rating 3.76 — 599 ratings — published 2013
The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as gates)
avg rating 4.40 — 98,427 ratings — published 2019
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as gates)
avg rating 3.98 — 43,134 ratings — published 2004
Prepared: What Kids Need for a Fulfilled Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as gates)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,004 ratings — published 2019
Lincoln in the Bardo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as gates)
avg rating 3.75 — 182,591 ratings — published 2017
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as gates)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,093 ratings — published 2015
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as gates)
avg rating 4.15 — 81,208 ratings — published 2014
The Choice: Embrace the Possible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as gates)
avg rating 4.57 — 136,888 ratings — published 2017
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 13 times as gates)
avg rating 4.18 — 293,160 ratings — published 2015
The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties (ebook)
by (shelved 12 times as gates)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,767 ratings — published 2018
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as gates)
avg rating 4.45 — 382,449 ratings — published 2016
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as gates)
avg rating 4.14 — 12,558 ratings — published 2015
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as gates)
avg rating 4.15 — 24,423 ratings — published 2013
How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as gates)
avg rating 3.94 — 14,571 ratings — published 2022
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as gates)
avg rating 4.13 — 82,464 ratings — published 2019
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as gates)
avg rating 4.40 — 286,491 ratings — published 2018
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as gates)
avg rating 3.88 — 95,103 ratings — published 2011
Energy and Civilization: A History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 4,234 ratings — published 2017
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as gates)
avg rating 4.47 — 116,975 ratings — published 2016
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as gates)
avg rating 4.09 — 180,441 ratings — published 2006
Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as gates)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,799 ratings — published 2011
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as gates)
avg rating 4.52 — 119,515 ratings — published 2010
Presidents of War: The Epic Story, from 1807 to Modern Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as gates)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,552 ratings — published 2018
The Man Who Fed the World: Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Norman Borlaug and His Battle to End World Hunger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as gates)
avg rating 3.82 — 525 ratings — published 2006
A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as gates)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,073 ratings — published 2021
Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as gates)
avg rating 3.82 — 4,195 ratings — published 2018
The Best We Could Do (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as gates)
avg rating 4.35 — 41,224 ratings — published 2017
Turtles All the Way Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as gates)
avg rating 3.87 — 654,671 ratings — published 2017
The Power to Compete: An Economist and an Entrepreneur on Revitalizing Japan in the Global Economy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as gates)
avg rating 3.54 — 419 ratings — published 2014
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as gates)
avg rating 4.17 — 217,711 ratings — published 2013
“After another ten minutes, the gates of thievery would open just a crack, and Liesel Meminger would widen them a little further and squeeze through.
***TWO QUESTIONS***
Would the gates shut behind her?
Or would they have the goodwill to let her back out?
As Liesel would discover, a good thief requires many things.
Stealth. Nerve. Speed.
More important than any of those things, however, was one final requirement.
Luck.
Actually.
Forget the ten minutes.
The gates open now.”
― The Book Thief
***TWO QUESTIONS***
Would the gates shut behind her?
Or would they have the goodwill to let her back out?
As Liesel would discover, a good thief requires many things.
Stealth. Nerve. Speed.
More important than any of those things, however, was one final requirement.
Luck.
Actually.
Forget the ten minutes.
The gates open now.”
― The Book Thief
“Healthy boundaries are not walls. They are gates and fences that allow you to enjoy the beauty of your own garden.”
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