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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 366 times as society)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,314,919 ratings — published 2011
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 293 times as society)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,701,473 ratings — published 1949
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 238 times as society)
avg rating 4.04 — 469,783 ratings — published 1997
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 231 times as society)
avg rating 4.18 — 294,278 ratings — published 2015
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 218 times as society)
avg rating 4.15 — 181,396 ratings — published 2018
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 215 times as society)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,762,350 ratings — published 1945
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 191 times as society)
avg rating 4.35 — 205,835 ratings — published 2018
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 179 times as society)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,497 ratings — published 2004
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 177 times as society)
avg rating 4.33 — 179,673 ratings — published 2019
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as society)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,137,585 ratings — published 1932
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as society)
avg rating 4.19 — 68,666 ratings — published 2012
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 159 times as society)
avg rating 4.01 — 908,709 ratings — published 2005
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 141 times as society)
avg rating 4.08 — 66,407 ratings — published 2012
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as society)
avg rating 4.01 — 865,357 ratings — published 2000
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as society)
avg rating 4.01 — 36,577 ratings — published 2018
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as society)
avg rating 4.17 — 41,024 ratings — published 1985
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 122 times as society)
avg rating 4.07 — 483,631 ratings — published 2012
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 122 times as society)
avg rating 4.21 — 44,421 ratings — published 2014
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as society)
avg rating 4.47 — 117,618 ratings — published 2016
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as society)
avg rating 4.52 — 119,968 ratings — published 2010
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as society)
avg rating 4.19 — 885,856 ratings — published 2008
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as society)
avg rating 4.52 — 166,927 ratings — published 2020
Humankind: A Hopeful History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as society)
avg rating 4.31 — 84,729 ratings — published 2019
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 108 times as society)
avg rating 4.22 — 58,898 ratings — published 2018
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as society)
avg rating 4.15 — 29,943 ratings — published 2010
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as society)
avg rating 4.29 — 117,009 ratings — published 2017
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 100 times as society)
avg rating 4.39 — 339,507 ratings — published 2012
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as society)
avg rating 4.30 — 55,864 ratings — published 2007
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as society)
avg rating 4.30 — 214,535 ratings — published 2024
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 98 times as society)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,070 ratings — published 2018
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as society)
avg rating 4.37 — 102,002 ratings — published 2017
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as society)
avg rating 4.19 — 32,959 ratings — published 2018
Capital in the Twenty First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as society)
avg rating 4.06 — 35,252 ratings — published 2013
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as society)
avg rating 4.05 — 14,105 ratings — published 2018
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as society)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,958,407 ratings — published 1963
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as society)
avg rating 4.40 — 374,646 ratings — published 2015
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as society)
avg rating 3.83 — 513,093 ratings — published 2016
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as society)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,444 ratings — published 1988
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as society)
avg rating 4.19 — 28,335 ratings — published 2021
The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as society)
avg rating 4.19 — 14,759 ratings — published 2020
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as society)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,534,110 ratings — published 1985
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as society)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,293,049 ratings — published 1954
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as society)
avg rating 3.69 — 207,378 ratings — published 1848
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as society)
avg rating 4.21 — 28,135 ratings — published 2011
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 79 times as society)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,654 ratings — published 2001
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as society)
avg rating 4.00 — 343,072 ratings — published 2019
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as society)
avg rating 4.21 — 43,466 ratings — published 2009
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as society)
avg rating 4.16 — 28,078 ratings — published 2014
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as society)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,762 ratings — published 2019
No Logo (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as society)
avg rating 3.89 — 33,212 ratings — published 2000
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
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To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
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