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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,300,749 ratings — published 2011
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.37 — 913,846 ratings — published 1946
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.19 — 881,094 ratings — published 2008
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as understanding)
avg rating 3.97 — 230,151 ratings — published -400
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.18 — 292,740 ratings — published 2015
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.07 — 481,488 ratings — published 2012
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.17 — 605,015 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.04 — 466,638 ratings — published 1997
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.21 — 487,636 ratings — published 1988
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.22 — 430,438 ratings — published 2003
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.29 — 114,917 ratings — published 2017
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.00 — 62,312 ratings — published -350
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.12 — 153,129 ratings — published 2021
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.40 — 372,855 ratings — published 2015
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.52 — 119,329 ratings — published 2010
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.08 — 145,721 ratings — published 2016
The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.18 — 45,875 ratings — published 2001
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.03 — 117,711 ratings — published 1886
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.29 — 247,091 ratings — published 2012
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.39 — 337,425 ratings — published 2012
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 3.77 — 206,857 ratings — published 1854
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.30 — 591,793 ratings — published 1969
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.34 — 32,815 ratings — published 2003
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.29 — 53,404 ratings — published 1979
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.15 — 465,360 ratings — published 1997
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.10 — 58,971 ratings — published 2012
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,863,744 ratings — published 1590
Purity and Danger (Routledge Classics)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,485 ratings — published 1966
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,213,201 ratings — published 2025
Men Who Hate Women: The Extremism Nobody is Talking About (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.32 — 32,122 ratings — published 2020
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.44 — 18,028 ratings — published 2020
Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 3.62 — 4,979 ratings — published 2023
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.46 — 859,061 ratings — published 2022
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.43 — 47,587 ratings — published 2017
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,926,233 ratings — published 2018
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.15 — 180,507 ratings — published 2018
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.46 — 22,729 ratings — published 2013
Chasing Love: Sawyer (Wild Romance Saga, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.38 — 266 ratings — published 2020
The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.35 — 24,291 ratings — published 2017
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.29 — 15,481 ratings — published 1951
The Denial of Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.05 — 16,553 ratings — published 1973
Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.18 — 109,601 ratings — published 2007
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.34 — 298,220 ratings — published 2014
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.05 — 85,145 ratings — published 2015
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,390,563 ratings — published 2005
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.01 — 56,670 ratings — published -430
Everything I Know About Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 3.93 — 529,762 ratings — published 2018
Girl in Pieces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 3.93 — 280,013 ratings — published 2016
Archer's Voice (Pelion Lake, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.16 — 701,505 ratings — published 2014
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.32 — 100,705 ratings — published 2021
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
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“I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.”
― Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
― Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
