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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,226,670 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.04 — 450,241 ratings — published 1997
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.84 — 376,517 ratings — published 1513
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 40 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.19 — 282,804 ratings — published 2015
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.68 — 192,817 ratings — published 1848
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.97 — 222,627 ratings — published -400
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,170,711 ratings — published -700
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.16 — 175,025 ratings — published 2018
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.37 — 850,433 ratings — published 1946
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.95 — 559,037 ratings — published -500
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.17 — 574,652 ratings — published 2011
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,031,654 ratings — published 1601
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 humanities)
avg rating 4.19 — 113,194 ratings — published 2015
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.13 — 28,994 ratings — published 1978
The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.13 — 44,527 ratings — published 1949
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.09 — 60,795 ratings — published 2012
The Power of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.26 — 53,386 ratings — published 1988
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.93 — 501,285 ratings — published -800
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.75 — 115,852 ratings — published -1200
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.03 — 111,365 ratings — published 1886
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.16 — 42,081 ratings — published 2010
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.29 — 179,567 ratings — published -350
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.01 — 890,681 ratings — published 2005
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.90 — 281,014 ratings — published 2006
Meditations (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.28 — 331,372 ratings — published 180
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.22 — 416,676 ratings — published 2003
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.87 — 141,354 ratings — published -19
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.36 — 199,270 ratings — published 2018
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.00 — 58,506 ratings — published -350
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.39 — 324,632 ratings — published 2012
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.18 — 46,510 ratings — published 1949
A History of Western Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.13 — 41,173 ratings — published 1945
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.03 — 202,938 ratings — published 1320
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.21 — 38,359 ratings — published 2009
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.24 — 36,264 ratings — published 1975
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.07 — 172,449 ratings — published 1883
Chasing Lincoln's Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.84 — 12,256 ratings — published 2009
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.08 — 16,967 ratings — published 1957
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,322,133 ratings — published 1949
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.09 — 87,656 ratings — published -380
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.93 — 74,221 ratings — published 2004
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.19 — 25,194 ratings — published 2021
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,764,829 ratings — published 1960
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.99 — 72,599 ratings — published 400
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.03 — 22,969 ratings — published 1967
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.78 — 243,165 ratings — published 1974
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,345,619 ratings — published 1956
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.53 — 158,360 ratings — published 2020
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.21 — 26,196 ratings — published 2011
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.27 — 95,190 ratings — published 2017
“Might not too much investment in teaching Shelley mean falling behind our economic competitors? But there is no university without humane inquiry, which means that universities and advanced capitalism are fundamentally incompatible. And the political implications of that run far deeper than the question of student fees.”
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“Good work, like good talk or any other form of worthwhile human relationship, depends upon being able to assume an extended shared world.”
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