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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,322,379 ratings — published 2011
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.31 — 1,410,756 ratings — published 2018
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 910,187 ratings — published 2005
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 434,477 ratings — published 2003
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 613,898 ratings — published 2011
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 484,666 ratings — published 2012
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 237,512 ratings — published 2017
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 888,354 ratings — published 2008
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 307,010 ratings — published 2014
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 1,481,045 ratings — published 2016
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 180,923 ratings — published 2019
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 630,186 ratings — published 2005
The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 360,202 ratings — published 2020
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 492,281 ratings — published 1988
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 326,919 ratings — published 2002
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 826,399 ratings — published 2010
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.32 — 290,837 ratings — published 2025
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 215,898 ratings — published 2017
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 1,189,606 ratings — published 1936
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 200,636 ratings — published 2014
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money—That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 758,172 ratings — published 1997
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 866,732 ratings — published 2000
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 471,453 ratings — published 1997
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 932,616 ratings — published 1946
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 343,816 ratings — published 2019
The Art of War (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 594,821 ratings — published -500
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 841,640 ratings — published 1989
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 575,694 ratings — published 2012
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 247,974 ratings — published 2003
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.52 — 120,231 ratings — published 2010
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 — 206,324 ratings — published 2018
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.79 — 126,496 ratings — published 2021
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
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avg rating 4.18 — 295,088 ratings — published 2015
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 218,054 ratings — published 2024
Educated (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 1,962,965 ratings — published 2018
The 48 Laws of Power (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 242,822 ratings — published 1999
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 188,180 ratings — published 2013
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 208,664 ratings — published 1848
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 4,317,950 ratings — published 1947
The Truth Behind the Lies: One Man s Journey Through Wwiii (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 300 ratings — published
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 4.18 — 124,160 ratings — published 2015
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 468,520 ratings — published 2017
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 198,008 ratings — published 2016
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 399,443 ratings — published 2010
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.52 — 167,489 ratings — published 2020
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 288,417 ratings — published 2018
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 226,113 ratings — published 2014
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 194,264 ratings — published 2013
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 95,391 ratings — published 2011
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 273,334 ratings — published 1980
“WITH BLEEDING INSIDE THE HEAD
THERE IS A METALLIC TASTE AT
THE BACK OF THE THROAT.”
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THERE IS A METALLIC TASTE AT
THE BACK OF THE THROAT.”
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“For more than half a century now, we have treated the trials of sickness, aging, and mortality as medical concerns. It's been and experiment in social engineering, putting our fate in the hands of people valued more for their technical prowess than for their understanding of human needs. That experiment has failed... we seek a life of worth and purpose, yet are routinely denied the conditions that might make it possible, there is no other way to see what modern society has done.”
― Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
― Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
