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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 20310 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,241,472 ratings — published 2011
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19462 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,148,897 ratings — published 1947
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17173 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,830,846 ratings — published 2018
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14868 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.08 — 472,096 ratings — published 2012
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14223 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,258,058 ratings — published 2018
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13963 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 798,834 ratings — published 2010
I’m Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13691 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,424,203 ratings — published 2022
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12314 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 893,483 ratings — published 2005
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12250 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.19 — 859,203 ratings — published 2008
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12070 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 752,679 ratings — published 2003
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12066 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,184,554 ratings — published 2018
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 11692 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,381,833 ratings — published 2016
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 11461 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.22 — 419,283 ratings — published 2003
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 11324 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.37 — 862,040 ratings — published 1946
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11151 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.39 — 327,034 ratings — published 2012
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10611 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.49 — 796,668 ratings — published 2016
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10604 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 580,616 ratings — published 2011
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10579 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,183,338 ratings — published 1996
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 10537 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,352,569 ratings — published 1956
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10247 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.41 — 794,327 ratings — published 2016
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 9976 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 453,439 ratings — published 1997
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 9882 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 723,277 ratings — published 1966
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9802 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.40 — 363,557 ratings — published 2015
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 9654 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 851,329 ratings — published 2000
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9514 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.34 — 164,922 ratings — published 2019
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 9426 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 439,898 ratings — published 2017
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 9422 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 619,742 ratings — published 2005
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 9400 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.26 — 562,581 ratings — published 1997
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 9239 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 238,401 ratings — published 2003
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 9207 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.21 — 475,400 ratings — published 1988
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 9055 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,349,765 ratings — published 2005
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8983 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.34 — 315,687 ratings — published 2000
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 8927 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,050,571 ratings — published 2011
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8628 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 390,443 ratings — published 2010
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8013 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.39 — 992,239 ratings — published 2010
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7999 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.07 — 861,802 ratings — published 2012
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7856 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 557,871 ratings — published 2012
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7638 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.23 — 585,318 ratings — published 2021
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 7626 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 262,194 ratings — published 2018
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7570 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 618,890 ratings — published 2012
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
by (shelved 7431 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,136,161 ratings — published 1936
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 7312 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.95 — 564,278 ratings — published -500
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7218 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.07 — 442,710 ratings — published 1998
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 7117 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.19 — 285,068 ratings — published 2015
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7050 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.37 — 223,196 ratings — published 2017
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 7040 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.05 — 244,267 ratings — published 1985
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6966 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.35 — 271,600 ratings — published 2014
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6861 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 194,355 ratings — published 2014
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 6668 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,184,317 ratings — published 1997
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6660 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.08 — 204,675 ratings — published 2017
“Just a middle-age man with all the privilege that unasked for gift affords. When in truth it seems, we see suffering as the province of children, mothers, wives and lovers. Broken, struck by the hand of a man’s blind ambition, brutish strength. What of the gentle-man with the soft voice…”
― More Than Love, A Husband's Tale
― More Than Love, A Husband's Tale
“I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it. ”
― First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
― First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
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