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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,308,857 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as fact)
avg rating 4.21 — 432,003 ratings — published 2003
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as fact)
avg rating 4.35 — 205,400 ratings — published 2018
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as fact)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,290,854 ratings — published 1947
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as fact)
avg rating 4.04 — 468,480 ratings — published 1997
The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as fact)
avg rating 3.90 — 286,867 ratings — published 2006
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as fact)
avg rating 4.21 — 489,364 ratings — published 1988
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as fact)
avg rating 4.17 — 608,367 ratings — published 2011
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.31 — 1,387,726 ratings — published 2018
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
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avg rating 4.19 — 122,633 ratings — published 2015
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 822,168 ratings — published 2010
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as fact)
avg rating 4.01 — 907,536 ratings — published 2005
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as fact)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,181,007 ratings — published 1936
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 196,386 ratings — published 1976
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as fact)
avg rating 4.37 — 101,876 ratings — published 2017
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as fact)
avg rating 4.33 — 178,551 ratings — published 2019
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 8 times as fact)
avg rating 4.18 — 293,598 ratings — published 2015
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 199,609 ratings — published 2014
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as fact)
avg rating 4.05 — 251,993 ratings — published 1985
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 748,440 ratings — published 1966
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 883,815 ratings — published 2008
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 44,838 ratings — published 1990
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as fact)
avg rating 3.90 — 274,977 ratings — published 2018
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as fact)
avg rating 4.37 — 921,114 ratings — published 1946
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as fact)
avg rating 4.34 — 117,338 ratings — published 2010
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as fact)
avg rating 4.30 — 29,424 ratings — published 1999
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as fact)
avg rating 4.26 — 221,823 ratings — published 1985
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as fact)
avg rating 4.16 — 56,831 ratings — published 2009
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.02 — 1,215,132 ratings — published 1996
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as fact)
avg rating 4.06 — 246,292 ratings — published 2003
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as fact)
avg rating 3.94 — 589,899 ratings — published -500
Surrounded by Idiots (Audiobook)
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avg rating 3.51 — 81,831 ratings — published 2014
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as fact)
avg rating 4.21 — 111,780 ratings — published 2014
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 66,019 ratings — published 2012
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 482,735 ratings — published 2012
Notes from a Small Island (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 121,366 ratings — published 1995
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 325,152 ratings — published 2002
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as fact)
avg rating 4.17 — 230,487 ratings — published 2023
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as fact)
avg rating 4.13 — 82,705 ratings — published 2019
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as fact)
avg rating 3.87 — 30,761 ratings — published 2016
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as fact)
avg rating 4.11 — 269,747 ratings — published 2018
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 235,376 ratings — published 2017
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 301,729 ratings — published 2014
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 181,040 ratings — published 2018
Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.32 — 50,380 ratings — published 2018
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 108,554 ratings — published 2018
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 338,618 ratings — published 2012
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 182,309 ratings — published 1984
Fermat's Enigma (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 33,995 ratings — published 1997
“A new beginning is an illusion.
We continue.”
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We continue.”
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“Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.”
― Under the Glacier
― Under the Glacier
