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The King of Torts (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as public)
avg rating 3.73 — 91,714 ratings — published 2003
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as public)
avg rating 4.16 — 123,351 ratings — published 1994
When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as public)
avg rating 3.52 — 2,400 ratings — published 2002
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as public)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,275 ratings — published 2004
Neon Gods (Dark Olympus, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as public)
avg rating 3.68 — 316,290 ratings — published 2021
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 7,004,659 ratings — published 1960
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as public)
avg rating 4.04 — 465,380 ratings — published 1997
Back Seat Baby (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as public)
avg rating 3.69 — 3,201 ratings — published
Eyes on Me (Salacious Players Club, #2)
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avg rating 4.04 — 153,467 ratings — published 2022
Beautiful Stranger (Beautiful Bastard, #2)
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avg rating 4.10 — 102,724 ratings — published 2013
Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 22,120 ratings — published
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 879,153 ratings — published 2008
The Time Machine (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 573,478 ratings — published 1895
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)
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avg rating 4.00 — 519,337 ratings — published 1900
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,051,574 ratings — published 1846
Capital in the Twenty First Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 35,048 ratings — published 2013
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as public)
avg rating 4.14 — 408,759 ratings — published 2014
The Lean Startup (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 368,860 ratings — published 2011
End the Fed (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 6,557 ratings — published 2009
Innocent (Kindle County Legal Thriller, #8)
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avg rating 4.00 — 18,651 ratings — published 2010
Hell Gate (Alexandra Cooper, #12)
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avg rating 3.83 — 6,048 ratings — published 2010
Native Tongue (Skink #2)
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avg rating 3.97 — 19,114 ratings — published 1991
Crave (Fallen Angels, #2)
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avg rating 4.10 — 31,154 ratings — published 2010
Perfect Match (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as public)
avg rating 3.98 — 85,783 ratings — published 2002
Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 2,252 ratings — published 2009
Out of the Woods (Out, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as public)
avg rating 3.85 — 48,484 ratings — published 2025
Morbidly Yours (Love in Galway, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as public)
avg rating 3.86 — 40,232 ratings — published 2023
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as public)
avg rating 4.20 — 112,159 ratings — published 2014
Treading Water (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.71 — 2,475 ratings — published
Reckless (Chestnut Springs, #4)
by (shelved 3 times as public)
avg rating 4.35 — 448,897 ratings — published 2023
Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as public)
avg rating 3.85 — 12,399 ratings — published 2012
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as public)
avg rating 4.18 — 292,092 ratings — published 2015
The Four Leaf (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 3 times as public)
avg rating 3.66 — 23,636 ratings — published 2022
Praise (Salacious Players Club, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as public)
avg rating 4.09 — 260,096 ratings — published 2022
Punk 57 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as public)
avg rating 3.76 — 513,608 ratings — published 2016
Lords of Pain (Royals of Forsyth University, #1)
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avg rating 4.00 — 49,317 ratings — published 2021
The Initiation (Filthy Rich Americans, #1)
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avg rating 3.74 — 16,909 ratings — published 2019
Meditations (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 365,752 ratings — published 180
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,295,549 ratings — published 2011
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 137,990 ratings — published 1995
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
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avg rating 4.09 — 524,050 ratings — published 1968
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 1,952,018 ratings — published 1818
Dracula (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,509,963 ratings — published 1897
The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 48,285 ratings — published 1988
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 908,995 ratings — published 1946
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 194,423 ratings — published 2016
The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as public)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,461 ratings — published 2011
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as public)
avg rating 4.20 — 89,704 ratings — published 2003
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 43,022 ratings — published 2004
Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 14,710 ratings — published 2007
“[On the practical applications of particle physics research with the Large Hadron Collider.]
Sometimes the public says, 'What's in it for Numero Uno? Am I going to get better television reception? Am I going to get better Internet reception?' Well, in some sense, yeah. ... All the wonders of quantum physics were learned basically from looking at atom-smasher technology. ... But let me let you in on a secret: We physicists are not driven to do this because of better color television. ... That's a spin-off. We do this because we want to understand our role and our place in the universe.”
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Sometimes the public says, 'What's in it for Numero Uno? Am I going to get better television reception? Am I going to get better Internet reception?' Well, in some sense, yeah. ... All the wonders of quantum physics were learned basically from looking at atom-smasher technology. ... But let me let you in on a secret: We physicists are not driven to do this because of better color television. ... That's a spin-off. We do this because we want to understand our role and our place in the universe.”
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“The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It's in that intersection that I find the energy of the essay.”
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