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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,288,201 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.04 — 463,533 ratings — published 1997
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.84 — 388,880 ratings — published 1532
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 38 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.18 — 291,083 ratings — published 2015
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.37 — 902,134 ratings — published 1946
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.97 — 228,851 ratings — published -400
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.17 — 599,596 ratings — published 2011
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.69 — 202,885 ratings — published 1848
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,214,285 ratings — published -800
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.15 — 179,670 ratings — published 2018
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.94 — 582,089 ratings — published -500
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,068,512 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 25 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.19 — 120,216 ratings — published 2015
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.14 — 30,366 ratings — published 1978
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.12 — 45,585 ratings — published 1949
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.09 — 64,731 ratings — published 2012
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.76 — 120,990 ratings — published -1200
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.90 — 285,273 ratings — published 2006
The Power of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.26 — 54,140 ratings — published 1988
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.03 — 116,544 ratings — published 1886
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.93 — 519,340 ratings — published -800
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.88 — 145,481 ratings — published -19
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.01 — 903,141 ratings — published 2005
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.00 — 61,722 ratings — published -350
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.28 — 362,106 ratings — published 180
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.22 — 427,794 ratings — published 2003
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,791 ratings — published 2010
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 — 203,895 ratings — published 2018
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.39 — 335,337 ratings — published 2012
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.18 — 48,119 ratings — published 1949
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.03 — 209,029 ratings — published 1321
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.21 — 41,762 ratings — published 2009
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.29 — 184,850 ratings — published -350
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.07 — 179,672 ratings — published 1883
A History of Western Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.13 — 41,838 ratings — published 1945
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,358 ratings — published 1957
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.24 — 37,558 ratings — published 1975
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.19 — 27,280 ratings — published 2021
Chasing Lincoln's Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.84 — 12,649 ratings — published 2009
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,583,931 ratings — published 1948
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.09 — 92,228 ratings — published -380
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,144 ratings — published 2004
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.29 — 112,966 ratings — published 2017
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,979,269 ratings — published 1960
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.00 — 75,759 ratings — published 400
On Liberty (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.96 — 43,827 ratings — published 1859
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.30 — 27,879 ratings — published 2009
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.19 — 876,518 ratings — published 2008
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,865 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 — 247,475 ratings — published 1974
“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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“The humanities are like the great old Paris Flea Market where, amidst masses of junk, people with a good eye found cast away treasures...They are like a refugee camp where all the geniuses driven out of their jobs and countries by unfriendly regimes are idling.”
― The Closing of the American Mind
― The Closing of the American Mind
