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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,278,925 ratings — published 2011
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,333,926 ratings — published 2018
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 901,149 ratings — published 2005
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 425,911 ratings — published 2003
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 477,903 ratings — published 2012
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 595,690 ratings — published 2011
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 229,848 ratings — published 2017
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 873,184 ratings — published 2008
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 — 1,430,034 ratings — published 2016
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 288,311 ratings — published 2014
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 624,638 ratings — published 2005
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 172,185 ratings — published 2019
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 320,651 ratings — published 2000
The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 332,742 ratings — published 2020
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 209,399 ratings — published 2017
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 482,891 ratings — published 1988
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 810,802 ratings — published 2010
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,160,663 ratings — published 1936
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 197,144 ratings — published 2014
Rich Dad, Poor Dad (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 735,863 ratings — published 1997
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 461,419 ratings — published 1997
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 893,561 ratings — published 1946
The Art of War (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 578,217 ratings — published -500
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 858,778 ratings — published 2000
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 339,011 ratings — published 2019
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 827,703 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 — 566,423 ratings — published 2012
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 242,267 ratings — published 2003
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.52 — 118,260 ratings — published 2010
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 226,081 ratings — published 2025
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 — 203,176 ratings — published 2018
The 48 Laws of Power (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 230,678 ratings — published 1999
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 120,284 ratings — published 2021
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
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avg rating 4.18 — 289,876 ratings — published 2015
Educated (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 1,889,166 ratings — published 2018
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 201,160 ratings — published 1848
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 4,227,325 ratings — published 1947
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 177,140 ratings — published 2013
The Truth Behind the Lies: One Man s Journey Through Wwiii (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 301 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 4.19 — 119,090 ratings — published 2015
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 191,857 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 — 394,867 ratings — published 2010
The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.28 — 484,156 ratings — published 1990
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.52 — 163,477 ratings — published 2020
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 283,601 ratings — published 2018
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 452,809 ratings — published 2017
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 220,178 ratings — published 2014
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 94,545 ratings — published 2011
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 206,625 ratings — published 2001
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 191,134 ratings — published 2024
“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
“We are surrounded by forces that technology cannot yet measure.”
― Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing
― Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing












