526 books
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295 voters
World Books
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as world)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,300,891 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as world)
avg rating 4.04 — 466,663 ratings — published 1997
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as world)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,561,110 ratings — published 2003
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as world)
avg rating 4.22 — 430,471 ratings — published 2003
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 76 times as world)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,939,012 ratings — published 2005
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as world)
avg rating 4.35 — 204,868 ratings — published 2018
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 74 times as world)
avg rating 4.19 — 121,771 ratings — published 2015
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 73 times as world)
avg rating 4.18 — 292,758 ratings — published 2015
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 68 times as world)
avg rating 3.75 — 420,921 ratings — published 1958
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as world)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,782,516 ratings — published 2007
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as world)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,509,037 ratings — published 1969
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as world)
avg rating 4.15 — 180,521 ratings — published 2018
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as world)
avg rating 4.08 — 65,514 ratings — published 2012
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as world)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,130,788 ratings — published 1967
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as world)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,388,754 ratings — published 1956
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as world)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,273,136 ratings — published 1947
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as world)
avg rating 3.99 — 897,457 ratings — published 1961
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as world)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,010,159 ratings — published 2010
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as world)
avg rating 4.49 — 829,867 ratings — published 2016
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as world)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,677,155 ratings — published 1988
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as world)
avg rating 4.16 — 50,853 ratings — published 2015
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as world)
avg rating 4.34 — 188,758 ratings — published 2006
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 40 times as world)
avg rating 4.46 — 102,702 ratings — published 2009
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as world)
avg rating 4.12 — 532,272 ratings — published 1928
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 39 times as world)
avg rating 4.34 — 662,961 ratings — published 2017
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as world)
avg rating 4.31 — 420,938 ratings — published 2013
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as world)
avg rating 4.19 — 823,233 ratings — published 2008
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as world)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,472,275 ratings — published 1942
Cryptonomicon (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as world)
avg rating 4.23 — 117,881 ratings — published 1999
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as world)
avg rating 4.44 — 141,342 ratings — published 1992
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as world)
avg rating 4.18 — 499,518 ratings — published 2006
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as world)
avg rating 4.47 — 418,161 ratings — published 2016
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as world)
avg rating 4.16 — 633,009 ratings — published 2012
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as world)
avg rating 4.16 — 195,897 ratings — published 2007
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 32 times as world)
avg rating 4.35 — 851,943 ratings — published 1978
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as world)
avg rating 3.96 — 334,552 ratings — published 1997
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as world)
avg rating 4.19 — 27,820 ratings — published 2021
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as world)
avg rating 4.31 — 738,884 ratings — published 2001
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as world)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,337 ratings — published 2004
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as world)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,130,445 ratings — published 1997
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as world)
avg rating 3.69 — 102,720 ratings — published 2005
The 48 Laws of Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as world)
avg rating 4.08 — 237,035 ratings — published 1999
How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as world)
avg rating 3.94 — 14,529 ratings — published 2022
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as world)
avg rating 4.11 — 952,880 ratings — published 1878
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as world)
avg rating 4.30 — 335,088 ratings — published 1982
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as world)
avg rating 3.94 — 555,440 ratings — published 1985
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as world)
avg rating 4.01 — 905,942 ratings — published 2005
Good Omens (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as world)
avg rating 4.25 — 836,343 ratings — published 1990
The White Tiger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as world)
avg rating 3.77 — 205,239 ratings — published 2008
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as world)
avg rating 4.28 — 437,366 ratings — published 1967
“The real world is where the monsters are.”
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