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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,334,787 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 437,052 ratings — published 2003
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 207,404 ratings — published 2018
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 4,342,366 ratings — published 1947
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 474,394 ratings — published 1997
The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 288,694 ratings — published 2006
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 494,824 ratings — published 1988
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 4.18 — 125,777 ratings — published 2015
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 619,506 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 — 1,432,272 ratings — published 2018
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 831,119 ratings — published 2010
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 912,829 ratings — published 2005
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
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avg rating 4.18 — 296,703 ratings — published 2015
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 1,198,647 ratings — published 1936
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 198,385 ratings — published 1976
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 102,391 ratings — published 2017
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 183,526 ratings — published 2019
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 201,661 ratings — published 2014
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 255,235 ratings — published 1985
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 758,490 ratings — published 1966
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 892,897 ratings — published 2008
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 45,116 ratings — published 1990
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 278,473 ratings — published 2018
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 943,988 ratings — published 1946
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 67,611 ratings — published 2012
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 118,867 ratings — published 2010
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 29,655 ratings — published 1999
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 224,176 ratings — published 1985
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 57,145 ratings — published 2009
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.02 — 1,228,413 ratings — published 1996
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 249,752 ratings — published 2003
Mythos - The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
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avg rating 4.25 — 181,055 ratings — published 2017
The Art of War (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 600,267 ratings — published -500
Surrounded by Idiots (Audiobook)
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avg rating 3.51 — 84,827 ratings — published 2014
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 113,466 ratings — published 2014
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 486,646 ratings — published 2012
Notes from a Small Island (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 122,189 ratings — published 1995
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 328,856 ratings — published 2000
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 243,337 ratings — published 2023
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 84,225 ratings — published 2019
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 31,072 ratings — published 2016
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
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avg rating 4.11 — 272,991 ratings — published 2018
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 291,316 ratings — published 2018
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 312,036 ratings — published 2014
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 182,849 ratings — published 2018
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 108,857 ratings — published 2018
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 342,671 ratings — published 2012
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 185,385 ratings — published 1984
Fermat's Enigma (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 34,279 ratings — published 1997
“Wild animals are less wild and more human than many humans of this world”
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“...most people in the ancient world, did not make a sharp distinction between myth and reality. The two were intimately tied together in their spiritual experience. That is to say, they were less interested in what actually happened, than in what it meant. It would have been perfectly normal, indeed expected, for a writer in the ancient world, to tell tales of gods and heroes, whose fundamental facts would have been recognized as false, but whose underlying message would have been seen as true.”
― Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
― Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
