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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,278,825 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.22 — 425,894 ratings — published 2003
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.35 — 203,167 ratings — published 2018
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.04 — 461,390 ratings — published 1997
The Book of General Ignorance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.75 — 11,188 ratings — published 2006
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.21 — 482,861 ratings — published 1988
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.19 — 873,159 ratings — published 2008
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.14 — 197,131 ratings — published 2014
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.01 — 901,140 ratings — published 2005
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.17 — 595,643 ratings — published 2011
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 23 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.18 — 289,858 ratings — published 2015
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.01 — 858,760 ratings — published 2000
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.19 — 119,085 ratings — published 2015
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.96 — 624,636 ratings — published 2005
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.37 — 229,820 ratings — published 2017
An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned But Probably Didn't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,436 ratings — published 1987
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 178,941 ratings — published 2018
The 48 Laws of Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.08 — 230,658 ratings — published 1999
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.09 — 64,098 ratings — published 2012
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.00 — 339,001 ratings — published 2019
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.14 — 12,425 ratings — published 2015
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.94 — 578,186 ratings — published -500
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,333,753 ratings — published 2018
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 88,539 ratings — published 2018
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 58,233 ratings — published 2012
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.37 — 893,468 ratings — published 1946
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.40 — 160,053 ratings — published 1980
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,743 ratings — published 2010
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.07 — 477,891 ratings — published 2012
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.96 — 122,644 ratings — published 2007
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.08 — 209,384 ratings — published 2017
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.97 — 192,517 ratings — published 2013
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
by (shelved 11 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.08 — 71,880 ratings — published 2001
The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.28 — 332,674 ratings — published 2020
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 67,545 ratings — published 2014
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 193,930 ratings — published 1976
The Prince (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 386,584 ratings — published 1532
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 122,630 ratings — published 1859
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.69 — 102,624 ratings — published 2005
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.23 — 24,841 ratings — published 1988
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 100,783 ratings — published 2019
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 32,603 ratings — published 2018
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 58,175 ratings — published 2016
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 33,233 ratings — published 2010
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,160,620 ratings — published 1936
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.15 — 403,503 ratings — published 2014
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.88 — 94,543 ratings — published 2011
This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.66 — 2,848 ratings — published 2013
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.12 — 40,009 ratings — published 2011
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.06 — 242,250 ratings — published 2003
“Guessing a person’s ethnicity right without asking them is a talent that flows within you once you start living in the UAE.”
― Anti-Romantic
― Anti-Romantic
“Lord Krishna taught Arjuna, the bhagavad gita; What might have been the teaching of Saguni to Duryodhana? Will it be the same?”
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