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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,341,135 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.04 — 476,071 ratings — published 1997
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.84 — 404,331 ratings — published 1513
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.97 — 234,939 ratings — published -400
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.36 — 950,570 ratings — published 1946
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 37 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.18 — 297,547 ratings — published 2015
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,300,808 ratings — published -800
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.16 — 622,135 ratings — published 2011
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.70 — 212,259 ratings — published 1848
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.15 — 183,338 ratings — published 2018
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.94 — 603,395 ratings — published -500
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,097,478 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 28 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.18 — 126,755 ratings — published 2015
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.12 — 46,551 ratings — published 1949
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.08 — 68,088 ratings — published 2012
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,760 ratings — published 1978
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.01 — 913,934 ratings — published 2005
The Power of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.26 — 54,918 ratings — published 1988
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.27 — 388,078 ratings — published 180
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.21 — 438,520 ratings — published 2003
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.03 — 121,885 ratings — published 1886
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.76 — 125,466 ratings — published -1800
The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.90 — 289,183 ratings — published 2006
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.94 — 542,667 ratings — published -750
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.88 — 150,037 ratings — published -19
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.07 — 185,703 ratings — published 1883
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.01 — 64,111 ratings — published -350
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.15 — 30,068 ratings — published 2010
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.19 — 29,446 ratings — published 2021
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 4.35 — 208,220 ratings — published 2018
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.39 — 343,906 ratings — published 2012
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.19 — 49,749 ratings — published 1949
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.03 — 214,621 ratings — published 1321
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.21 — 45,176 ratings — published 2009
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.28 — 189,506 ratings — published -350
On Liberty (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.96 — 45,186 ratings — published 1859
A History of Western Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.13 — 42,547 ratings — published 1945
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,781 ratings — published 1957
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.23 — 38,808 ratings — published 1975
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.09 — 96,684 ratings — published -380
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.94 — 76,091 ratings — published 2004
Chasing Lincoln's Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.84 — 13,009 ratings — published 2009
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.02 — 80,485 ratings — published 400
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.19 — 69,930 ratings — published 2012
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.19 — 33,144 ratings — published 2018
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.28 — 114,892 ratings — published 2017
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.29 — 16,038 ratings — published 1951
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,163,643 ratings — published 1960
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.83 — 31,287 ratings — published -335
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.30 — 28,768 ratings — published 2009
“Learned books are published by the thousand, yet learning was never less trusted as something to be pursued for its own sake. Too often used for ill, it is now asked about its use for good, and usually on the assumption that any goodwill be measurable on a market, like a commodity.”
― Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
― Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
“You can’t enjoy art or books in a hurry.”
― Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
― Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
