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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 20245 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,231,211 ratings — published 2011
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19404 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,129,639 ratings — published 1947
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17106 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,815,455 ratings — published 2018
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14853 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.08 — 470,437 ratings — published 2012
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14158 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,240,776 ratings — published 2018
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13934 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 795,742 ratings — published 2010
I’m Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13563 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,404,706 ratings — published 2022
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12302 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 891,473 ratings — published 2005
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12214 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.19 — 855,632 ratings — published 2008
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12053 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,178,017 ratings — published 2018
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12015 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 749,247 ratings — published 2003
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 11648 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,370,113 ratings — published 2016
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 11423 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.22 — 417,475 ratings — published 2003
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 11233 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.37 — 853,904 ratings — published 1946
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11130 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.39 — 325,309 ratings — published 2012
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10571 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.49 — 790,662 ratings — published 2016
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10553 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 576,400 ratings — published 2011
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10546 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,178,650 ratings — published 1996
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 10504 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,347,597 ratings — published 1956
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10167 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.41 — 785,482 ratings — published 2016
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 9957 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 451,229 ratings — published 1997
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 9843 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 719,843 ratings — published 1966
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9770 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.40 — 361,508 ratings — published 2015
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 9644 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 849,375 ratings — published 2000
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9428 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.34 — 162,942 ratings — published 2019
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 9411 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 618,387 ratings — published 2005
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 9386 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 436,125 ratings — published 2017
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 9362 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.26 — 559,391 ratings — published 1997
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 9207 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 237,252 ratings — published 2003
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 9175 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.21 — 473,131 ratings — published 1988
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 9034 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,343,546 ratings — published 2005
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8951 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.34 — 314,217 ratings — published 2000
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 8926 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,048,305 ratings — published 2011
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8616 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 389,368 ratings — published 2010
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8080 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.39 — 997,028 ratings — published 2010
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7987 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.07 — 859,058 ratings — published 2012
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7837 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 555,593 ratings — published 2012
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 7613 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 261,069 ratings — published 2018
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7573 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.24 — 577,172 ratings — published 2021
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7565 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 617,724 ratings — published 2012
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
by (shelved 7382 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,129,497 ratings — published 1936
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 7273 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.95 — 560,546 ratings — published -500
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7202 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.07 — 441,055 ratings — published 1998
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 7111 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.19 — 283,493 ratings — published 2015
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 7026 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.05 — 243,127 ratings — published 1985
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6990 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.37 — 221,366 ratings — published 2017
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6879 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.36 — 267,326 ratings — published 2014
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6850 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 193,529 ratings — published 2014
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6647 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.84 — 496,984 ratings — published 2016
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 6634 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,176,434 ratings — published 1997
“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
― The Complete Prose Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson
― The Complete Prose Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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