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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 149 times as world)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,342,682 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as world)
avg rating 4.04 — 476,312 ratings — published 1997
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as world)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,634,652 ratings — published 2003
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as world)
avg rating 4.21 — 438,783 ratings — published 2003
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 81 times as world)
avg rating 4.18 — 126,911 ratings — published 2015
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as world)
avg rating 4.35 — 208,351 ratings — published 2018
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 75 times as world)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,999,150 ratings — published 2005
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 74 times as world)
avg rating 4.18 — 297,694 ratings — published 2015
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 72 times as world)
avg rating 3.75 — 429,595 ratings — published 1958
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as world)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,837,674 ratings — published 2007
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as world)
avg rating 4.08 — 68,213 ratings — published 2012
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as world)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,537,559 ratings — published 1969
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as world)
avg rating 4.15 — 183,416 ratings — published 2018
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as world)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,162,549 ratings — published 1967
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as world)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,358,376 ratings — published 1947
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as world)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,412,322 ratings — published 2012
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as world)
avg rating 3.99 — 908,754 ratings — published 1961
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as world)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,023,120 ratings — published 2010
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as world)
avg rating 4.48 — 858,196 ratings — published 2016
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as world)
avg rating 4.16 — 53,170 ratings — published 2015
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as world)
avg rating 4.34 — 194,652 ratings — published 2006
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as world)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,555,573 ratings — published 1942
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as world)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,789,598 ratings — published 1988
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 41 times as world)
avg rating 4.34 — 709,572 ratings — published 2017
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as world)
avg rating 4.31 — 429,194 ratings — published 2013
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 39 times as world)
avg rating 4.46 — 106,634 ratings — published 2009
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as world)
avg rating 4.13 — 545,482 ratings — published 1928
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as world)
avg rating 4.20 — 836,576 ratings — published 2008
Cryptonomicon (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as world)
avg rating 4.23 — 118,974 ratings — published 1999
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as world)
avg rating 4.46 — 433,842 ratings — published 2016
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as world)
avg rating 4.18 — 503,852 ratings — published 2006
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as world)
avg rating 4.44 — 144,055 ratings — published 1992
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as world)
avg rating 4.16 — 197,514 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 — 642,811 ratings — published 2012
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 33 times as world)
avg rating 4.35 — 869,821 ratings — published 1978
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as world)
avg rating 4.19 — 29,503 ratings — published 2021
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as world)
avg rating 3.94 — 76,118 ratings — published 2004
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as world)
avg rating 3.96 — 345,647 ratings — published 1997
The 48 Laws of Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as world)
avg rating 4.07 — 248,735 ratings — published 1999
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as world)
avg rating 4.31 — 760,608 ratings — published 2001
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as world)
avg rating 4.11 — 976,327 ratings — published 1878
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as world)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,152,199 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 — 102,864 ratings — published 2005
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as world)
avg rating 4.31 — 353,592 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 — 15,076 ratings — published 2022
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as world)
avg rating 3.94 — 566,665 ratings — published 1985
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as world)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,302,486 ratings — published -800
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as world)
avg rating 4.01 — 914,183 ratings — published 2005
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as world)
avg rating 4.27 — 457,531 ratings — published 1967
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as world)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,176,377 ratings — published 1866
“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
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
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