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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,247,566 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.04 — 454,743 ratings — published 1997
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.84 — 380,810 ratings — published 1532
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 39 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.18 — 285,968 ratings — published 2015
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.97 — 224,887 ratings — published -400
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.68 — 196,206 ratings — published 1848
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.37 — 866,847 ratings — published 1946
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.17 — 583,091 ratings — published 2011
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,183,625 ratings — published -700
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.15 — 176,653 ratings — published 2018
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.95 — 566,573 ratings — published -500
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,043,733 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 — 115,536 ratings — published 2015
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,458 ratings — published 1978
The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.13 — 44,867 ratings — published 1949
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.09 — 62,237 ratings — published 2012
The Power of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.26 — 53,632 ratings — published 1988
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.75 — 118,416 ratings — published -2000
Meditations (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.28 — 340,650 ratings — published 180
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.03 — 113,187 ratings — published 1886
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.93 — 506,666 ratings — published -800
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.87 — 142,767 ratings — published -19
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,528 ratings — published 2010
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.29 — 181,414 ratings — published -350
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.01 — 894,681 ratings — published 2005
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.90 — 282,454 ratings — published 2006
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.22 — 420,418 ratings — published 2003
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 — 200,875 ratings — published 2018
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.00 — 59,661 ratings — published -350
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.39 — 328,311 ratings — published 2012
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.18 — 47,070 ratings — published 1949
A History of Western Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.13 — 41,429 ratings — published 1945
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.24 — 36,740 ratings — published 1975
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.03 — 205,089 ratings — published 1321
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.21 — 39,534 ratings — published 2009
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.07 — 175,073 ratings — published 1883
Chasing Lincoln's Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.84 — 12,366 ratings — published 2009
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,108 ratings — published 1957
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,403,741 ratings — published 1949
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.09 — 89,202 ratings — published -380
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.94 — 74,530 ratings — published 2004
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.19 — 25,925 ratings — published 2021
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.28 — 99,299 ratings — published 2017
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,830,199 ratings — published 1960
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.99 — 73,610 ratings — published 400
On Liberty (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.96 — 42,899 ratings — published 1859
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.19 — 65,514 ratings — published 2012
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.19 — 861,374 ratings — published 2008
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,295 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 — 244,564 ratings — published 1974
“Empirical disciplines will take us to the stars, but it's humanities that make sure, we don't leave behind our humanity, otherwise we'll just end up a bunch of space monkeys.”
― Sonnets From The Mountaintop
― Sonnets From The Mountaintop












