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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as factual)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,246,849 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as factual)
avg rating 4.22 — 420,289 ratings — published 2003
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as factual)
avg rating 4.21 — 476,517 ratings — published 1988
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as factual)
avg rating 4.06 — 44,761 ratings — published 2008
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as factual)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,158,979 ratings — published 1947
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as factual)
avg rating 4.34 — 166,033 ratings — published 2019
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as factual)
avg rating 4.17 — 582,806 ratings — published 2011
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as factual)
avg rating 3.95 — 157,113 ratings — published 2011
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as factual)
avg rating 4.01 — 894,540 ratings — published 2005
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as factual)
avg rating 3.99 — 98,307 ratings — published 2010
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor (ebook)
by (shelved 15 times as factual)
avg rating 4.40 — 327,506 ratings — published 2017
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as factual)
avg rating 3.90 — 282,398 ratings — published 2006
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as factual)
avg rating 4.36 — 200,828 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 14 times as factual)
avg rating 4.19 — 115,464 ratings — published 2015
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as factual)
avg rating 4.14 — 194,766 ratings — published 2014
Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as factual)
avg rating 4.32 — 47,681 ratings — published 2018
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as factual)
avg rating 4.04 — 454,582 ratings — published 1997
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as factual)
avg rating 4.13 — 800,504 ratings — published 2010
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as factual)
avg rating 4.19 — 861,139 ratings — published 2008
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as factual)
avg rating 4.05 — 244,909 ratings — published 1985
Notes from a Small Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as factual)
avg rating 3.92 — 119,349 ratings — published 1995
The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as factual)
avg rating 3.72 — 38,570 ratings — published 2015
So You've Been Publicly Shamed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as factual)
avg rating 3.93 — 65,698 ratings — published 2015
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as factual)
avg rating 4.10 — 9,262 ratings — published 2012
The Fry Chronicles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as factual)
avg rating 3.85 — 22,832 ratings — published 2010
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as factual)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,185,687 ratings — published 1996
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as factual)
avg rating 4.31 — 98,588 ratings — published 2019
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 724,977 ratings — published 1966
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as factual)
avg rating 4.08 — 472,927 ratings — published 2012
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as factual)
avg rating 4.06 — 238,999 ratings — published 2003
The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as factual)
avg rating 3.81 — 4,271 ratings — published 2010
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as factual)
avg rating 4.40 — 158,230 ratings — published 1980
Shakespeare: The World as Stage (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as factual)
avg rating 3.82 — 48,745 ratings — published 2007
Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as factual)
avg rating 4.12 — 30,803 ratings — published 2023
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as factual)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,388,026 ratings — published 2016
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as factual)
avg rating 3.91 — 44,078 ratings — published 1990
A Street Cat Named Bob (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 60,137 ratings — published 2012
My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 4.16 — 63,318 ratings — published 1956
The Art of War (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 566,330 ratings — published -500
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as factual)
avg rating 4.30 — 123,015 ratings — published 1991
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as factual)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,289 ratings — published 2010
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as factual)
avg rating 4.46 — 98,974 ratings — published 2009
The Book of General Ignorance (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 11,113 ratings — published 2006
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 121,613 ratings — published 1859
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as factual)
avg rating 4.16 — 191,950 ratings — published 1976
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 443,501 ratings — published 1998
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as factual)
avg rating 4.32 — 50,340 ratings — published 2020
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as factual)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,187,654 ratings — published 2018
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as factual)
avg rating 4.09 — 66,562 ratings — published 2019
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 224,137 ratings — published 2017
“Not too fashionable, still, she was admirable, intellectual; and yet to many, factual, though fairly objectionable, when met through claiming: 'I don't respect you unless you respect truth.”
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“Navarre asserted, “We have such powerful forces and so strong a defence system that Dien Bien Phu is an impregnable fortress!” the American Lieutenant General “Iron Mike” O’Daniel also shared that opinion.”
― A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
― A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
