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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,340,465 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.21 — 438,362 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 4.35 — 208,167 ratings — published 2018
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.04 — 475,884 ratings — published 1997
The Book of General Ignorance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.75 — 11,393 ratings — published 2006
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.21 — 495,953 ratings — published 1988
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.19 — 894,735 ratings — published 2008
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.13 — 202,221 ratings — published 2014
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 621,816 ratings — published 2011
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.01 — 913,778 ratings — published 2005
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 24 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.18 — 297,458 ratings — published 2015
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.18 — 126,656 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 — 870,183 ratings — published 2000
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.96 — 632,916 ratings — published 2005
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.36 — 241,277 ratings — published 2017
An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned But Probably Didn't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,440 ratings — published 1987
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.15 — 183,287 ratings — published 2018
The 48 Laws of Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.07 — 248,237 ratings — published 1999
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.08 — 68,042 ratings — published 2012
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.14 — 12,681 ratings — published 2015
The Art of War (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 603,076 ratings — published -500
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.09 — 60,220 ratings — published 2012
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.96 — 125,812 ratings — published 2007
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 — 346,017 ratings — published 2019
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,442,702 ratings — published 2018
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.25 — 92,064 ratings — published 2018
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
by (shelved 13 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.08 — 74,113 ratings — published 2001
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.08 — 218,526 ratings — published 2017
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.36 — 949,820 ratings — published 1946
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.40 — 164,626 ratings — published 1980
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.15 — 30,069 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 — 487,718 ratings — published 2012
The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.27 — 372,986 ratings — published 2020
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.97 — 195,031 ratings — published 2013
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,835 ratings — published 1988
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 105,812 ratings — published 2019
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.98 — 70,929 ratings — published 2014
A Little History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.10 — 33,798 ratings — published 1936
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.14 — 424,362 ratings — published 2014
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.16 — 198,856 ratings — published 1976
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 125,139 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 — 102,861 ratings — published 2005
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.19 — 33,141 ratings — published 2018
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.12 — 84,636 ratings — published 2019
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 59,270 ratings — published 2016
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.27 — 387,693 ratings — published 180
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.89 — 34,023 ratings — published 2010
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 1,202,959 ratings — published 1936
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.88 — 95,802 ratings — published 2011
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 — 40,758 ratings — published 2014
“We ought to read mainly, not to know more, but to remind ourselves that we do not know much.”
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“No general knowledge is expressible except in abstract terms. There is nothing particularly difficult about abstractions. We use them every day of our lives and in every sort of conversation. However, the words "abstract" and "concrete" seem to trouble many persons. [How to Read a Book (1972), P. 283]”
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