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Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
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4.15 avg rating — 659,020 ratings
"classic humanistic book "
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rated it 4 stars
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Religion Unplugged: Spirituality or Fanaticism?
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4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
"most comprehensive analysis of religions"
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rated it 5 stars
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Communication: From Pheromones to the Internet and Beyond
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4.47 avg rating — 15 ratings
"most complete analysis of all aspects of communiction"
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rated it 4 stars
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The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
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4.03 avg rating — 7,353 ratings
"best description of major human follies through history"
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rated it 4 stars
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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
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3.90 avg rating — 110,872 ratings
"best romantic exploration "
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rated it 4 stars
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A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
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3.89 avg rating — 52,622 ratings
"The best description of how the human concept of God has evolved."
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rated it 4 stars
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Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
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3.88 avg rating — 94,240 ratings
"learn how to remember things"
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rated it 4 stars
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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3.94 avg rating — 74,731 ratings
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rated it 4 stars
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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
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4.28 avg rating — 55,668 ratings
"inspirational plea for female equality"
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rated it 4 stars
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
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4.20 avg rating — 88,866 ratings
"dramatic account of Farmer's quest for third world disease control"
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rated it 4 stars
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
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3.66 avg rating — 358,719 ratings
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rated it 4 stars
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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4.05 avg rating — 95,383 ratings
"the Americas marvelous cultures at the time of Columbus"
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rated it 4 stars
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 458,427 ratings
"how and why the first human civilizations appeared"
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rated it 4 stars
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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4.01 avg rating — 898,463 ratings
"real life economics"
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rated it 4 stars
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