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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,268,968 ratings — published 2011
Eye for Eye (Talion #1)
by (shelved 12 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.25 — 4,210 ratings — published 2019
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.19 — 117,813 ratings — published 2015
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 9 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.18 — 288,496 ratings — published 2015
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.16 — 625,270 ratings — published 2012
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.46 — 100,187 ratings — published 2009
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.01 — 899,203 ratings — published 2005
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.36 — 202,394 ratings — published 2018
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.22 — 424,009 ratings — published 2003
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.98 — 117,006 ratings — published 2012
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.19 — 25,084 ratings — published 2021
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.40 — 159,438 ratings — published 1980
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.16 — 46,580 ratings — published 2024
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.19 — 66,353 ratings — published 2012
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.17 — 49,057 ratings — published 2015
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.27 — 24,500 ratings — published 2011
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,368,574 ratings — published 1956
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,505,957 ratings — published 2003
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.94 — 74,799 ratings — published 2004
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.66 — 140,598 ratings — published 2003
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.69 — 102,563 ratings — published 2005
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.19 — 869,640 ratings — published 2008
How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.95 — 14,053 ratings — published 2022
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.93 — 511,828 ratings — published -800
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.27 — 17,277 ratings — published 2021
Death and the Penguin (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.78 — 22,507 ratings — published 1996
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.26 — 87,962 ratings — published 2018
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.25 — 11,230 ratings — published 2011
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.21 — 43,224 ratings — published 2014
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.09 — 63,434 ratings — published 2012
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,108,218 ratings — published 1967
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.47 — 405,625 ratings — published 2016
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.28 — 423,486 ratings — published 1967
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.06 — 82,121 ratings — published 2015
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.21 — 480,878 ratings — published 1988
The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,281 ratings — published 2014
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.04 — 459,231 ratings — published 1997
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.26 — 11,049 ratings — published 2002
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.34 — 184,397 ratings — published 2006
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.66 — 358,778 ratings — published 2006
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.75 — 413,998 ratings — published 1958
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.16 — 6,113 ratings — published 2025
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.93 — 41,887 ratings — published 2025
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.35 — 178,092 ratings — published 2021
The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.19 — 45,426 ratings — published 2001
Salt: A World History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.75 — 77,015 ratings — published 2002
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.07 — 84,350 ratings — published 2004
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.04 — 23,134 ratings — published 1988
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.90 — 60,538 ratings — published 2022
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917–2017 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.49 — 35,564 ratings — published 2020
“Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever.”
― Pandemonium
― Pandemonium
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
― Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings
― Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings
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