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Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as interest)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,868,985 ratings — published 1590
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as interest)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,305,488 ratings — published 2011
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as interest)
avg rating 4.19 — 882,671 ratings — published 2008
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as interest)
avg rating 4.17 — 607,012 ratings — published 2011
Eating the Dinosaur (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as interest)
avg rating 3.77 — 16,371 ratings — published 2009
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as interest)
avg rating 4.01 — 906,877 ratings — published 2005
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 13 times as interest)
avg rating 4.18 — 293,234 ratings — published 2015
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as interest)
avg rating 4.21 — 431,406 ratings — published 2003
The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as interest)
avg rating 3.90 — 286,630 ratings — published 2006
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as interest)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,596,324 ratings — published 2020
Walden & Civil Disobedience (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as interest)
avg rating 3.93 — 39,466 ratings — published 1849
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as interest)
avg rating 4.37 — 918,176 ratings — published 1946
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as interest)
avg rating 4.21 — 488,692 ratings — published 1988
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as interest)
avg rating 3.96 — 628,186 ratings — published 2005
The 48 Laws of Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as interest)
avg rating 4.08 — 238,300 ratings — published 1999
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as interest)
avg rating 3.94 — 588,777 ratings — published -500
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as interest)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,788,341 ratings — published 2007
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as interest)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,703,824 ratings — published 2021
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as interest)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,040,708 ratings — published 2014
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as interest)
avg rating 4.16 — 196,141 ratings — published 1976
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as interest)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,178,854 ratings — published 1936
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as interest)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,671,461 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 — 836,631 ratings — published 1989
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as interest)
avg rating 4.12 — 132,552 ratings — published 2008
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as interest)
avg rating 4.04 — 467,707 ratings — published 1997
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as interest)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,283,334 ratings — published 1947
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as interest)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,660,279 ratings — published 1948
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as interest)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,127,163 ratings — published 1932
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as interest)
avg rating 4.06 — 636,743 ratings — published 2014
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as interest)
avg rating 4.35 — 205,187 ratings — published 2018
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as interest)
avg rating 4.21 — 181,928 ratings — published 1984
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as interest)
avg rating 4.48 — 1,045,420 ratings — published 2006
The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as interest)
avg rating 4.15 — 48,497 ratings — published 1988
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as interest)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,349,064 ratings — published 2011
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as interest)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,689,838 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 — 251,597 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 — 453,600 ratings — published 1998
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as interest)
avg rating 4.19 — 211,757 ratings — published 2006
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as interest)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,958,454 ratings — published 1890
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as interest)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,720,649 ratings — published 1945
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as interest)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,431,774 ratings — published 2022
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as interest)
avg rating 4.20 — 537,056 ratings — published 2020
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as interest)
avg rating 4.18 — 192,816 ratings — published 2019
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as interest)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,935,038 ratings — published 2018
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as interest)
avg rating 4.47 — 419,980 ratings — published 2016
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as interest)
avg rating 4.08 — 65,796 ratings — published 2012
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as interest)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,125,885 ratings — published 2011
Games People Play (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as interest)
avg rating 3.71 — 42,265 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 — 4,149 ratings — published 1971
Sophie’s World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as interest)
avg rating 3.97 — 288,283 ratings — published 1991
“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
“I don't have time, energy, or interest in hating the haters; I'm too busy loving the lovers.”
― Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
― Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
