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The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 165 times as naval)
avg rating 3.97 — 13,702 ratings — published 2010
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 139 times as naval)
avg rating 4.17 — 10,096 ratings — published 2011
The Lessons of History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 130 times as naval)
avg rating 4.05 — 21,179 ratings — published 1968
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as naval)
avg rating 4.20 — 31,505 ratings — published 1994
Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as naval)
avg rating 3.91 — 32,432 ratings — published 2018
Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as naval)
avg rating 4.39 — 18,724 ratings — published 2005
The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as naval)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,320 ratings — published 1997
Reality is Not What it Seems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as naval)
avg rating 4.33 — 17,066 ratings — published 2014
Thinking Physics: Understandable Practical Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as naval)
avg rating 4.40 — 436 ratings — published 1989
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as naval)
avg rating 4.14 — 12,536 ratings — published 2015
The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as naval)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,886 ratings — published 1995
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as naval)
avg rating 3.98 — 68,647 ratings — published 2014
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as naval)
avg rating 3.78 — 11,108 ratings — published 2010
The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as naval)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,513 ratings — published 2015
Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
by (shelved 77 times as naval)
avg rating 4.07 — 64,776 ratings — published 1969
The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as naval)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,217 ratings — published 1997
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as naval)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,298,177 ratings — published 2011
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as naval)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,345 ratings — published 1999
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as naval)
avg rating 4.09 — 897,437 ratings — published 1922
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as naval)
avg rating 4.05 — 17,403 ratings — published 1993
Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as naval)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,194 ratings — published 2000
The Compleat Strategyst: Being a Primer on the Theory of Games of Strategy (Dover Books on Mathematics)
by (shelved 69 times as naval)
avg rating 3.45 — 232 ratings — published 1965
Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as naval)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,625 ratings — published 1996
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as naval)
avg rating 4.28 — 367,071 ratings — published 180
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as naval)
avg rating 4.27 — 86,080 ratings — published 2018
Snow Crash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as naval)
avg rating 4.01 — 300,973 ratings — published 1992
Stories of Your Life and Others (ebook)
by (shelved 61 times as naval)
avg rating 4.25 — 129,419 ratings — published 2002
Ficciones (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as naval)
avg rating 4.39 — 81,572 ratings — published 1944
The Prophet (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as naval)
avg rating 4.23 — 334,319 ratings — published 1923
The Evolution of Cooperation (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as naval)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,396 ratings — published 1984
Jed McKenna's Theory of Everything (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 55 times as naval)
avg rating 4.33 — 514 ratings — published 2013
H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)
by (shelved 55 times as naval)
avg rating 4.42 — 21,858 ratings — published 1973
Direct Truth: Uncompromising, non-prescriptive Truths to the enduring questions of life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 52 times as naval)
avg rating 4.40 — 827 ratings — published
Perfectly Reasonable Deviations (from the Beaten Track): The Letters of Richard P. Feynman
by (shelved 51 times as naval)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,769 ratings — published 2004
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as naval)
avg rating 4.12 — 24,345 ratings — published
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as naval)
avg rating 4.20 — 149,746 ratings — published 2007
Six Not So Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as naval)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,591 ratings — published 1963
The Book of Secrets (Complete)
by (shelved 47 times as naval)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,806 ratings — published 1974
The Tao of Seneca: Practical Letters from a Stoic Master, Volume 1 (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 46 times as naval)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,386 ratings — published
The Mauritius Command (Aubrey & Maturin, #4)
by (shelved 46 times as naval)
avg rating 4.35 — 18,799 ratings — published 1977
The Way to Love: The Last Meditations of Anthony de Mello (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as naval)
avg rating 4.30 — 5,281 ratings — published 1991
Post Captain (Aubrey & Maturin, #2)
by (shelved 44 times as naval)
avg rating 4.26 — 25,797 ratings — published 1972
Desolation Island (Aubrey & Maturin, #5)
by (shelved 43 times as naval)
avg rating 4.41 — 16,677 ratings — published 1978
The Lifecycle of Software Objects (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as naval)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,635 ratings — published 2010
A Master's Secret Whispers: For those who abhor the noise and seek The Truth about life and living (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 41 times as naval)
avg rating 4.43 — 758 ratings — published
Exhalation (ebook)
by (shelved 40 times as naval)
avg rating 4.27 — 115,227 ratings — published 2019
Atmamun: The Path To Achieving The Bliss Of The Himalayan Swamis. And The Freedom Of A Living God. (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 39 times as naval)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,251 ratings — published
Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as naval)
avg rating 3.87 — 16,474 ratings — published 2012
The Fortune of War (Aubrey & Maturin, #6)
by (shelved 39 times as naval)
avg rating 4.41 — 15,446 ratings — published 1979
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as naval)
avg rating 4.18 — 19,727 ratings — published 1950
“That is not the Dryad. It has three masts.'
'There is no concealing anything from the Doctor,' said Jack, and turning directly to him he went on, 'Give you joy of our prize: we took her in the night.'
'Breakfast is disgracefully late,' said Stephen.”
― Treason's Harbour
'There is no concealing anything from the Doctor,' said Jack, and turning directly to him he went on, 'Give you joy of our prize: we took her in the night.'
'Breakfast is disgracefully late,' said Stephen.”
― Treason's Harbour
“It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening. They emptied a big tin dish of juicy fragments of fish- the blood-ends the cook had collected overnight. They cleaned up the plates and pans of the elder mess, who were out fishing, sliced pork for the midday meal, swabbed down the foc'sle, filled the lamps, drew coal and water for the cook, an investigated the fore-hold, where the boat's stores were stacked. It was another perfect day - soft, mild and clear; and Harvey breathed to the very bottom of his lungs.”
― Captains Courageous
― Captains Courageous












