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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 890,315 ratings — published 2005
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.19 — 853,590 ratings — published 2008
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,224,731 ratings — published 2011
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.08 — 469,406 ratings — published 2012
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 717,338 ratings — published 1966
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 617,637 ratings — published 2005
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 747,152 ratings — published 2003
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 848,321 ratings — published 2000
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.26 — 557,417 ratings — published 1997
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.81 — 112,652 ratings — published 2021
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 793,923 ratings — published 2010
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,805,730 ratings — published 2018
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,175,989 ratings — published 1996
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.41 — 278,584 ratings — published 2018
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 236,604 ratings — published 2003
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.22 — 416,389 ratings — published 2003
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.40 — 360,294 ratings — published 2015
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 573,884 ratings — published 2011
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.47 — 111,558 ratings — published 2016
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.19 — 209,485 ratings — published 2006
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 449,803 ratings — published 1997
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.84 — 495,053 ratings — published 2016
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.07 — 439,975 ratings — published 1998
The Library Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 122,232 ratings — published 2018
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.52 — 115,934 ratings — published 2010
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 222,365 ratings — published 2003
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 24 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.65 — 194,899 ratings — published 2001
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 23 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 260,280 ratings — published 2018
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.37 — 848,943 ratings — published 1946
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,229,594 ratings — published 2018
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 388,685 ratings — published 2010
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.27 — 58,564 ratings — published 2023
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.34 — 161,594 ratings — published 2019
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.49 — 213,578 ratings — published 2014
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.95 — 156,321 ratings — published 2011
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.30 — 169,077 ratings — published 2010
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.47 — 156,099 ratings — published 2018
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,362,292 ratings — published 2016
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 554,214 ratings — published 2012
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.75 — 206,377 ratings — published 2001
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.53 — 158,170 ratings — published 2020
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.36 — 118,740 ratings — published 2019
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 433,883 ratings — published 2017
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.36 — 199,114 ratings — published 2018
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.51 — 164,158 ratings — published 2013
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.62 — 257,375 ratings — published 2014
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,125,514 ratings — published 1936
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.29 — 100,897 ratings — published 2009
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.78 — 243,039 ratings — published 1974
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as general-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.41 — 781,195 ratings — published 2016
