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Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as interest)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,843,284 ratings — published 1590
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as interest)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,281,537 ratings — published 2011
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as interest)
avg rating 4.19 — 874,111 ratings — published 2008
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as interest)
avg rating 4.17 — 596,761 ratings — published 2011
Eating the Dinosaur (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as interest)
avg rating 3.77 — 16,322 ratings — published 2009
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as interest)
avg rating 4.01 — 901,679 ratings — published 2005
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 13 times as interest)
avg rating 4.18 — 290,203 ratings — published 2015
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as interest)
avg rating 4.22 — 426,445 ratings — published 2003
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as interest)
avg rating 3.90 — 284,705 ratings — published 2006
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as interest)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,520,818 ratings — published 2020
Walden & Civil Disobedience (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as interest)
avg rating 3.93 — 39,225 ratings — published 1849
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as interest)
avg rating 4.21 — 483,402 ratings — published 1988
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as interest)
avg rating 3.96 — 624,985 ratings — published 2005
The 48 Laws of Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as interest)
avg rating 4.08 — 231,477 ratings — published 1999
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as interest)
avg rating 4.37 — 895,895 ratings — published 1946
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as interest)
avg rating 3.94 — 579,373 ratings — published
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as interest)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,351,946 ratings — published 2021
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as interest)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,004,232 ratings — published 2014
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as interest)
avg rating 4.16 — 194,100 ratings — published 1976
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as interest)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,162,520 ratings — published 1936
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as interest)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,759,324 ratings — published 2007
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as interest)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,532,265 ratings — published 1997
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as interest)
avg rating 4.16 — 828,577 ratings — published 1989
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as interest)
avg rating 4.12 — 131,805 ratings — published 2008
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as interest)
avg rating 4.04 — 462,002 ratings — published 1997
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as interest)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,628,401 ratings — published 1945
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as interest)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,232,848 ratings — published 1947
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as interest)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,554,654 ratings — published 1948
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as interest)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,099,725 ratings — published 1932
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as interest)
avg rating 4.21 — 179,107 ratings — published 1984
The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as interest)
avg rating 4.15 — 47,987 ratings — published 1988
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as interest)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,309,980 ratings — published 2011
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as interest)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,624,954 ratings — published 1988
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as interest)
avg rating 4.05 — 248,619 ratings — published 1985
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as interest)
avg rating 4.07 — 449,057 ratings — published 1998
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as interest)
avg rating 4.19 — 210,955 ratings — published 2006
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as interest)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,915,388 ratings — published 1890
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as interest)
avg rating 4.18 — 187,499 ratings — published 2019
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as interest)
avg rating 4.07 — 624,052 ratings — published 2014
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as interest)
avg rating 4.35 — 203,392 ratings — published 2018
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as interest)
avg rating 4.49 — 1,006,435 ratings — published 2006
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as interest)
avg rating 4.47 — 410,860 ratings — published 2016
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as interest)
avg rating 4.09 — 64,281 ratings — published 2012
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as interest)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,109,569 ratings — published 2011
Games People Play (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as interest)
avg rating 3.72 — 41,762 ratings — published 1964
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories (Modern Library)
by (shelved 7 times as interest)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,075 ratings — published 1971
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as interest)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,118,074 ratings — published 1967
Sophie’s World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as interest)
avg rating 3.97 — 285,219 ratings — published 1991
Emma (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as interest)
avg rating 4.05 — 995,273 ratings — published 1815
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as interest)
avg rating 4.44 — 656,418 ratings — published 1952
“When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.”
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“If one has failed to develop curiosity and interest in the early years, it is a good idea to acquire them now, before it is too late to improve the quality of life.
To do so is fairly easy in principle, but more difficult in practice. Yet it is sure worth trying. The first step is to develop the habit of doing whatever needs to be done with concentrated attention, with skill rather than inertia. Even the most routine tasks, like washing dishes, dressing, or mowing the lawn become more rewarding if we approach them with the care it would take to make a work of art. The next step is to transfer some psychic energy each day from tasks that we don’t like doing, or from passive leisure, into something we never did before, or something we enjoy doing but don’t do often enough because it seems too much trouble. There are literally millions of potentially interesting things in the world to see, to do, to learn about. But they don’t become actually interesting until we devote attention to them.”
― Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life
To do so is fairly easy in principle, but more difficult in practice. Yet it is sure worth trying. The first step is to develop the habit of doing whatever needs to be done with concentrated attention, with skill rather than inertia. Even the most routine tasks, like washing dishes, dressing, or mowing the lawn become more rewarding if we approach them with the care it would take to make a work of art. The next step is to transfer some psychic energy each day from tasks that we don’t like doing, or from passive leisure, into something we never did before, or something we enjoy doing but don’t do often enough because it seems too much trouble. There are literally millions of potentially interesting things in the world to see, to do, to learn about. But they don’t become actually interesting until we devote attention to them.”
― Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life
