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State of Fear (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 92,159 ratings — published 2004
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 3,515,142 ratings — published 2003
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 3.75 — 415,187 ratings — published 1958
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 626,519 ratings — published 2012
Americanah (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 415,340 ratings — published 2013
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 1,750,470 ratings — published 2007
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
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avg rating 4.19 — 118,495 ratings — published 2015
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 171,860 ratings — published 2010
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.66 — 358,845 ratings — published 2006
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,274,382 ratings — published 2011
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.34 — 636,078 ratings — published 2017
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 185,099 ratings — published 2006
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 460,415 ratings — published 1997
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 1,113,365 ratings — published 1967
Homegoing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 407,940 ratings — published 2016
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 117,271 ratings — published 2012
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 54,314 ratings — published 2007
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 328,126 ratings — published 1997
Eye for Eye (Talion #1)
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avg rating 4.25 — 4,217 ratings — published 2019
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.67 — 380,131 ratings — published 2016
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 813,983 ratings — published 2016
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 206,997 ratings — published 2007
Cutting for Stone (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 429,286 ratings — published 2009
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 89,094 ratings — published 2003
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 194,739 ratings — published 2007
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 207,128 ratings — published 1999
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 202,821 ratings — published 2018
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 55,723 ratings — published 2008
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,116,921 ratings — published 1997
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 796,888 ratings — published 1998
The Alchemist (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 3,603,242 ratings — published 1988
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 323,500 ratings — published 1982
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.69 — 102,594 ratings — published 2005
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
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avg rating 4.31 — 726,103 ratings — published 2001
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
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avg rating 4.27 — 232,094 ratings — published 2003
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.65 — 395,495 ratings — published 2007
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 54,685 ratings — published 2000
And the Mountains Echoed (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 406,823 ratings — published 2012
Like Water for Chocolate (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 396,869 ratings — published 1989
Salt: A World History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 77,214 ratings — published 2002
American Dirt (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 694,200 ratings — published 2020
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.46 — 100,616 ratings — published 2009
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 549,681 ratings — published 1985
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 11,248 ratings — published 2005
The Art of War (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 576,465 ratings — published -500
The Namesake (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 285,024 ratings — published 2003
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 39,755 ratings — published 2005
Minor Detail (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 43,829 ratings — published 2017
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Audible Audio)
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avg rating 3.93 — 160,427 ratings — published 2009
“Joy isn’t just an outcome; it’s a strategy. The happiest and most impactful individuals cultivate habits that feed their soul. From practicing gratitude and fostering authentic relationships to pursuing work that lights them up.”
― Empowering You - Beyond Success: Cultivating a Life of Significance & Joy #2
― Empowering You - Beyond Success: Cultivating a Life of Significance & Joy #2
“If the context is lost and merely bits and pieces remain from a scattered existence, only the connection of anchor points may reinstate a distorted mental balance in an upset life story. ("Lost the global story." )”
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