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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 366 times as society)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,301,557 ratings — published 2011
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 290 times as society)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,642,987 ratings — published 1948
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 236 times as society)
avg rating 4.04 — 466,823 ratings — published 1997
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 229 times as society)
avg rating 4.18 — 292,846 ratings — published 2015
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 216 times as society)
avg rating 4.15 — 180,574 ratings — published 2018
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 206 times as society)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,705,131 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 — 204,907 ratings — published 2018
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as society)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,345 ratings — published 2004
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 174 times as society)
avg rating 4.33 — 177,173 ratings — published 2019
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 166 times as society)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,122,740 ratings — published 1932
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as society)
avg rating 4.19 — 68,041 ratings — published 2012
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 159 times as society)
avg rating 4.01 — 906,062 ratings — published 2005
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 140 times as society)
avg rating 4.08 — 65,558 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 — 863,077 ratings — published 2000
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 127 times as society)
avg rating 4.02 — 36,043 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 — 40,446 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 — 481,608 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 — 44,107 ratings — published 2014
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as society)
avg rating 4.47 — 116,770 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 — 119,366 ratings — published 2010
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as society)
avg rating 4.52 — 165,740 ratings — published 2020
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as society)
avg rating 4.19 — 881,380 ratings — published 2008
Humankind: A Hopeful History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as society)
avg rating 4.32 — 83,705 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 — 58,343 ratings — published 2018
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as society)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,876 ratings — published 2010
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 99 times as society)
avg rating 4.39 — 337,565 ratings — published 2012
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as society)
avg rating 4.30 — 55,406 ratings — published 2007
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as society)
avg rating 4.29 — 115,050 ratings — published 2017
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as society)
avg rating 4.37 — 101,762 ratings — published 2017
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 — 173,636 ratings — published 2018
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as society)
avg rating 4.30 — 206,891 ratings — published 2024
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as society)
avg rating 4.19 — 32,851 ratings — published 2018
Capital in the Twenty First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as society)
avg rating 4.06 — 35,115 ratings — published 2013
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as society)
avg rating 3.83 — 510,977 ratings — published 2016
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as society)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,928,819 ratings — published 1963
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as society)
avg rating 4.40 — 372,980 ratings — published 2015
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as society)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,262 ratings — published 1988
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as society)
avg rating 4.05 — 13,955 ratings — published 2018
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as society)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,506,862 ratings — published 1985
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as society)
avg rating 4.19 — 27,851 ratings — published 2021
The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as society)
avg rating 4.19 — 14,587 ratings — published 2020
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as society)
avg rating 3.69 — 205,183 ratings — published 1848
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as society)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,269,472 ratings — published 1954
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as society)
avg rating 4.21 — 27,844 ratings — published 2011
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 79 times as society)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,390 ratings — published 2001
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as society)
avg rating 4.21 — 42,651 ratings — published 2009
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as society)
avg rating 4.00 — 341,683 ratings — published 2019
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as society)
avg rating 4.16 — 28,010 ratings — published 2014
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as society)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,477 ratings — published 2019
No Logo (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as society)
avg rating 3.89 — 33,113 ratings — published 2000
“The soul is healed by being with children.”
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“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions."
(Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953)”
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