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Intellectually Stimulating Books
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,312,277 ratings — published 2011
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 152,003 ratings — published 2007
The Last Lecture (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.26 — 367,635 ratings — published 2008
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 190,535 ratings — published 2021
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 924,116 ratings — published 1946
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 35,813 ratings — published 2016
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 884,998 ratings — published 2008
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 — 205,675 ratings — published 2018
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 113,442 ratings — published 2014
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 629,003 ratings — published 2005
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 908,200 ratings — published 2005
Atlas Shrugged (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 410,952 ratings — published 1957
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 33,669 ratings — published 2010
This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 7,122 ratings — published 2012
E=mc²: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 8,430 ratings — published 2000
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Experimental Futures)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,015 ratings — published 2016
Causal Inference: The Mixtape (ebook)
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avg rating 4.39 — 257 ratings — published
Bee Season Reading Group Guide (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.36 — 56 ratings — published
Tom Lake (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 3.92 — 535,940 ratings — published 2023
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen (ebook)
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avg rating 4.32 — 17,435 ratings — published 2018
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,946,773 ratings — published 2018
The Book of Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 3.79 — 3,551 ratings — published 1976
Calculated (Calculated #1)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,245 ratings — published 2021
sadananda (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 4.06 — 36 ratings — published
The City and Its Uncertain Walls (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 46,152 ratings — published 2023
Intermezzo (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.79 — 393,430 ratings — published 2024
Dubliners (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 183,539 ratings — published 1914
You Are the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 346 ratings — published 1972
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 30,846 ratings — published 1962
New Science (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 956 ratings — published 1725
The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its Implications (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,096 ratings — published 1996
The Glass Bead Game (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 43,528 ratings — published 1943
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 10,236 ratings — published 2011
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 117,551 ratings — published 2010
Gravity’s Rainbow (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 49,759 ratings — published 1973
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.81 — 42,564 ratings — published 2005
Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 2,822 ratings — published 2018
All That Remains: A Life in Death (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 16,651 ratings — published 2018
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 112,015 ratings — published 2014
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 63,909 ratings — published 2013
Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 5,911 ratings — published 2003
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 41,904 ratings — published 1987
The Sudden Appearance of Hope (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.65 — 12,190 ratings — published 2016
The Leopard (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 50,119 ratings — published 1958
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 54,558 ratings — published 2020
Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 636 ratings — published 2015
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 251,841 ratings — published 1864
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 33,244 ratings — published 2016
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 28,091 ratings — published 2011
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 562,263 ratings — published 1984