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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as world)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,314,988 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as world)
avg rating 4.04 — 469,798 ratings — published 1997
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as world)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,586,398 ratings — published 2003
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as world)
avg rating 4.21 — 433,115 ratings — published 2003
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 76 times as world)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,959,681 ratings — published 2005
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as world)
avg rating 4.19 — 123,306 ratings — published 2015
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 — 205,838 ratings — published 2018
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 74 times as world)
avg rating 4.18 — 294,283 ratings — published 2015
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 69 times as world)
avg rating 3.75 — 423,746 ratings — published 1958
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as world)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,800,829 ratings — published 2007
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as world)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,518,493 ratings — published 1969
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as world)
avg rating 4.15 — 181,399 ratings — published 2018
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as world)
avg rating 4.08 — 66,411 ratings — published 2012
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as world)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,139,958 ratings — published 1967
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as world)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,396,341 ratings — published 1956
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as world)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,303,395 ratings — published 1947
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as world)
avg rating 3.99 — 901,184 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 — 1,014,354 ratings — published 2010
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as world)
avg rating 4.49 — 838,944 ratings — published 2016
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as world)
avg rating 4.34 — 190,659 ratings — published 2006
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as world)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,715,439 ratings — published 1988
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as world)
avg rating 4.16 — 51,561 ratings — published 2015
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 39 times as world)
avg rating 4.34 — 677,684 ratings — published 2017
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as world)
avg rating 4.31 — 423,613 ratings — published 2013
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 39 times as world)
avg rating 4.46 — 104,001 ratings — published 2009
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as world)
avg rating 4.12 — 536,431 ratings — published 1928
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as world)
avg rating 4.19 — 827,276 ratings — published 2008
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as world)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,498,058 ratings — published 1942
Cryptonomicon (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as world)
avg rating 4.23 — 118,271 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 — 142,128 ratings — published 1992
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as world)
avg rating 4.47 — 423,561 ratings — published 2016
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as world)
avg rating 4.18 — 500,909 ratings — published 2006
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as world)
avg rating 4.16 — 196,404 ratings — published 2007
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 — 636,290 ratings — published 2012
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 33 times as world)
avg rating 4.35 — 857,788 ratings — published 1978
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as world)
avg rating 3.96 — 338,259 ratings — published 1997
The 48 Laws of Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as world)
avg rating 4.08 — 240,891 ratings — published 1999
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as world)
avg rating 4.19 — 28,339 ratings — published 2021
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as world)
avg rating 4.31 — 745,405 ratings — published 2001
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as world)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,499 ratings — published 2004
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as world)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,138,102 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 — 102,770 ratings — published 2005
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as world)
avg rating 4.11 — 960,288 ratings — published 1878
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as world)
avg rating 4.31 — 341,721 ratings — published 1982
How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as world)
avg rating 3.94 — 14,682 ratings — published 2022
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as world)
avg rating 3.94 — 559,383 ratings — published 1985
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as world)
avg rating 4.01 — 908,721 ratings — published 2005
A Farewell to Arms (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as world)
avg rating 3.82 — 364,552 ratings — published 1929
Good Omens (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as world)
avg rating 4.25 — 841,774 ratings — published 1990
The White Tiger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as world)
avg rating 3.77 — 206,003 ratings — published 2008
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
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“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
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