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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,316,327 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.21 — 433,377 ratings — published 2003
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.35 — 205,928 ratings — published 2018
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.04 — 470,111 ratings — published 1997
The Book of General Ignorance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.75 — 11,305 ratings — published 2006
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.21 — 490,984 ratings — published 1988
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.19 — 886,350 ratings — published 2008
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.14 — 200,202 ratings — published 2014
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.17 — 611,468 ratings — published 2011
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.01 — 909,012 ratings — published 2005
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 23 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.18 — 294,430 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 23 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.19 — 123,460 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 — 865,614 ratings — published 2000
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.96 — 629,467 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 — 236,513 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 — 2,436 ratings — published 1987
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.15 — 181,476 ratings — published 2018
The 48 Laws of Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.08 — 241,235 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 — 66,495 ratings — published 2012
The Art of War (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 592,647 ratings — published -500
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 — 343,210 ratings — published 2019
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.25 — 90,700 ratings — published 2018
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.14 — 12,612 ratings — published 2015
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.10 — 59,431 ratings — published 2012
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.96 — 124,410 ratings — published 2007
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,400,751 ratings — published 2018
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.37 — 927,532 ratings — published 1946
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.08 — 215,109 ratings — published 2017
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.40 — 162,833 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 — 29,949 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 — 483,870 ratings — published 2012
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
by (shelved 12 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.08 — 73,353 ratings — published 2001
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.97 — 194,058 ratings — published 2013
The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.27 — 356,610 ratings — published 2020
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 69,561 ratings — published 2014
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.16 — 196,914 ratings — published 1976
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.84 — 397,701 ratings — published 1513
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.01 — 124,186 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 — 102,774 ratings — published 2005
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,457 ratings — published 1988
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.31 — 103,919 ratings — published 2019
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.19 — 32,969 ratings — published 2018
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.13 — 83,139 ratings — published 2019
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.95 — 58,879 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 — 33,712 ratings — published 2010
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,185,823 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 4.14 — 415,589 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 — 95,282 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 — 2,860 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 — 40,419 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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