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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 366 times as society)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,314,963 ratings — published 2011
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 293 times as society)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,701,654 ratings — published 1949
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 238 times as society)
avg rating 4.04 — 469,794 ratings — published 1997
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 231 times as society)
avg rating 4.18 — 294,281 ratings — published 2015
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 218 times as society)
avg rating 4.15 — 181,398 ratings — published 2018
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 215 times as society)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,762,531 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 — 205,838 ratings — published 2018
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 179 times as society)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,498 ratings — published 2004
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 177 times as society)
avg rating 4.33 — 179,680 ratings — published 2019
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as society)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,137,634 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 — 908,718 ratings — published 2005
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 141 times as society)
avg rating 4.08 — 66,410 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 — 865,369 ratings — published 2000
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as society)
avg rating 4.01 — 36,578 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 — 41,028 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 — 483,636 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 — 117,621 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 — 119,969 ratings — published 2010
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as society)
avg rating 4.19 — 885,865 ratings — published 2008
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as society)
avg rating 4.52 — 166,932 ratings — published 2020
Humankind: A Hopeful History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as society)
avg rating 4.31 — 84,734 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 — 58,900 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 — 117,016 ratings — published 2017
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 100 times as society)
avg rating 4.39 — 339,516 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 — 214,562 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 — 102,005 ratings — published 2017
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as society)
avg rating 4.19 — 32,960 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 — 2,958,523 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 — 513,100 ratings — published 2016
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as society)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,445 ratings — published 1988
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as society)
avg rating 4.19 — 28,337 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 — 2,534,237 ratings — published 1985
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as society)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,293,125 ratings — published 1954
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as society)
avg rating 3.69 — 207,381 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 — 343,078 ratings — published 2019
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as society)
avg rating 4.21 — 43,470 ratings — published 2009
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as society)
avg rating 4.16 — 28,079 ratings — published 2014
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as society)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,764 ratings — published 2019
No Logo (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as society)
avg rating 3.89 — 33,213 ratings — published 2000
“Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction It is already happening to some extent in our own society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.”
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“Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you. What's important to me is not others' opinions of me, but what's important to me is my opinion of myself.”
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