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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,294,651 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as fact)
avg rating 4.22 — 429,182 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 — 204,387 ratings — published 2018
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 4,259,434 ratings — published 1947
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as fact)
avg rating 4.04 — 465,151 ratings — published 1997
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as fact)
avg rating 3.90 — 285,841 ratings — published 2006
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as fact)
avg rating 4.21 — 486,301 ratings — published 1988
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as fact)
avg rating 4.17 — 602,404 ratings — published 2011
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as fact)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,362,703 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 10 times as fact)
avg rating 4.19 — 120,986 ratings — published 2015
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 817,011 ratings — published 2010
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 904,522 ratings — published 2005
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 1,171,261 ratings — published 1936
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 195,325 ratings — published 1976
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as fact)
avg rating 4.33 — 175,816 ratings — published 2019
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 8 times as fact)
avg rating 4.18 — 291,962 ratings — published 2015
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as fact)
avg rating 4.14 — 198,457 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 — 250,324 ratings — published 1985
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 743,008 ratings — published 1966
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as fact)
avg rating 4.19 — 878,783 ratings — published 2008
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 44,676 ratings — published 1990
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as fact)
avg rating 4.37 — 101,627 ratings — published 2017
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as fact)
avg rating 3.90 — 272,898 ratings — published 2018
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as fact)
avg rating 4.37 — 908,137 ratings — published 1946
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as fact)
avg rating 4.34 — 116,449 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 — 29,279 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 — 220,607 ratings — published 1985
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as fact)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,207,931 ratings — published 1996
Surrounded by Idiots (Audiobook)
by (shelved 6 times as fact)
avg rating 3.51 — 80,136 ratings — published 2014
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as fact)
avg rating 4.21 — 110,782 ratings — published 2014
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as fact)
avg rating 4.08 — 65,109 ratings — published 2012
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as fact)
avg rating 4.07 — 480,476 ratings — published 2012
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as fact)
avg rating 4.16 — 56,658 ratings — published 2009
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as fact)
avg rating 4.06 — 244,383 ratings — published 2003
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as fact)
avg rating 4.31 — 102,238 ratings — published 2019
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 81,614 ratings — published 2019
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 30,558 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 — 267,989 ratings — published 2018
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as fact)
avg rating 4.37 — 232,915 ratings — published 2017
The Art of War (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 584,494 ratings — published -500
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 295,277 ratings — published 2014
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 180,107 ratings — published 2018
Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as fact)
avg rating 4.32 — 49,769 ratings — published 2018
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as fact)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,324 ratings — published 2018
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 336,414 ratings — published 2012
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 180,684 ratings — published 1984
Notes from a Small Island (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 120,901 ratings — published 1995
Fermat's Enigma (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 33,825 ratings — published 1997
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as fact)
avg rating 4.26 — 579,054 ratings — published 1997
“It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.”
― Flipped
― Flipped
“I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.”
― The Story of the Malakand Field Force
― The Story of the Malakand Field Force
