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Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,257,488 ratings — published 2018
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as insightful)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,241,103 ratings — published 2011
The Alchemist (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 3,520,551 ratings — published 1988
The Midnight Library (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 2,398,051 ratings — published 2020
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 861,779 ratings — published 1946
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 4,480,724 ratings — published 1945
1984 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 5,378,726 ratings — published 1949
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 580,491 ratings — published 2011
The Psychology of Money (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 308,152 ratings — published 2020
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 1,381,465 ratings — published 2016
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 5,667,348 ratings — published 2012
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 859,095 ratings — published 2008
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 6,810,283 ratings — published 1960
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.41 — 794,105 ratings — published 2016
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.97 — 2,794,170 ratings — published 1953
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 867,570 ratings — published 1922
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 1,184,063 ratings — published 1997
I’m Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.44 — 1,423,644 ratings — published 2022
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 398,936 ratings — published 2019
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 2,850,578 ratings — published 2005
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 4,148,307 ratings — published 1947
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
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avg rating 4.09 — 4,530,152 ratings — published 2016
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,135,936 ratings — published 1936
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 1,587,079 ratings — published 2003
Meditations (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 337,766 ratings — published 180
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 223,129 ratings — published 2017
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
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avg rating 4.19 — 285,008 ratings — published 2015
Life of Pi (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 1,744,207 ratings — published 2001
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 1,982,048 ratings — published 1999
The Last Lecture (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.26 — 362,222 ratings — published 2008
Brave New World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 2,056,862 ratings — published 1932
Wonder (Wonder, #1)
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avg rating 4.36 — 1,186,427 ratings — published 2012
Educated (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 1,830,371 ratings — published 2018
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 200,397 ratings — published 2018
Rich Dad, Poor Dad (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 714,306 ratings — published 1997
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.45 — 1,718,051 ratings — published 2007
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 1,323,059 ratings — published 2022
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 1,199,348 ratings — published 1963
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 2,439,477 ratings — published 1943
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 164,850 ratings — published 2019
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 176,180 ratings — published 2018
The Stranger (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,371,631 ratings — published 1942
The Humans (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 156,570 ratings — published 2013
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 814,622 ratings — published 1989
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 893,428 ratings — published 2005
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 2,804,375 ratings — published 1937
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,100,706 ratings — published 1997
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 472,041 ratings — published 2012
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 5,846,246 ratings — published 1925
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 538,052 ratings — published 1984
“We had old architects and were working with what we had on hand. You’ve hired this new, young architect now, and, Pericles, I’m going to build you a statue of Athena—all gold and ivory, think of that, Pericles—and taller than our city walls.” Pericles raised his eyes toward the birds.”
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
“He saw it in her eyes. The anguish, the frustration. The terrible nothing that clawed inside and sought to smother her. She knew. It was there, inside. She had been broken.
Then she smiled. Oh, storms. She smiled anyway.
It was the single most beautiful thing he’d seen in his entire life.”
― Words of Radiance
Then she smiled. Oh, storms. She smiled anyway.
It was the single most beautiful thing he’d seen in his entire life.”
― Words of Radiance












