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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,244,170 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.22 — 419,765 ratings — published 2003
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.36 — 200,628 ratings — published 2018
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.04 — 454,000 ratings — published 1997
The Book of General Ignorance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.75 — 11,109 ratings — published 2006
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.21 — 475,948 ratings — published 1988
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.14 — 194,567 ratings — published 2014
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.19 — 860,081 ratings — published 2008
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.01 — 893,991 ratings — published 2005
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.17 — 581,684 ratings — published 2011
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 23 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.19 — 285,463 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 — 851,730 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 — 115,173 ratings — published 2015
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.96 — 620,066 ratings — published 2005
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 — 2,431 ratings — published 1987
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.15 — 176,408 ratings — published 2018
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.37 — 223,663 ratings — published 2017
The 48 Laws of Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.09 — 221,307 ratings — published 1999
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.14 — 12,256 ratings — published 2015
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.95 — 565,312 ratings — published -500
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.00 — 334,811 ratings — published 2019
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.26 — 86,614 ratings — published 2018
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.09 — 62,017 ratings — published 2012
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.40 — 158,059 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 — 29,506 ratings — published 2010
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.10 — 57,232 ratings — published 2012
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.01 — 121,520 ratings — published 1859
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.08 — 205,038 ratings — published 2017
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.16 — 191,765 ratings — published 1976
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.08 — 472,444 ratings — published 2012
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.97 — 191,081 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 — 70,970 ratings — published 2001
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.96 — 121,184 ratings — published 2007
The Psychology of Money (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.29 — 310,228 ratings — published 2020
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.31 — 98,412 ratings — published 2019
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,262,753 ratings — published 2018
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.98 — 66,156 ratings — published 2014
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.84 — 380,146 ratings — published 1513
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.69 — 102,471 ratings — published
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.24 — 24,173 ratings — published 1988
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.20 — 32,200 ratings — published 2018
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.95 — 57,576 ratings — published 2016
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.89 — 32,833 ratings — published 2010
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.37 — 864,156 ratings — published 1946
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.15 — 394,844 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 — 93,888 ratings — published 2011
This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,835 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 — 39,636 ratings — published 2011
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.06 — 238,709 ratings — published 2003
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.00 — 134,171 ratings — published 2009
“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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“We ought to read mainly, not to know more, but to remind ourselves that we do not know much.”
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