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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,295,606 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.22 — 429,373 ratings — published 2003
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.35 — 204,465 ratings — published 2018
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.04 — 465,397 ratings — published 1997
The Book of General Ignorance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.75 — 11,260 ratings — published 2006
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.21 — 486,535 ratings — published 1988
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.19 — 879,176 ratings — published 2008
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.14 — 198,539 ratings — published 2014
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.17 — 602,834 ratings — published 2011
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.01 — 904,739 ratings — published 2005
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 23 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.18 — 292,096 ratings — published 2015
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.01 — 861,931 ratings — published 2000
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.19 — 121,101 ratings — published 2015
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.96 — 626,850 ratings — published 2005
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.37 — 233,147 ratings — published 2017
An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned But Probably Didn't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,441 ratings — published 1987
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.15 — 180,180 ratings — published 2018
The 48 Laws of Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.08 — 235,501 ratings — published 1999
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.09 — 65,177 ratings — published 2012
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.00 — 340,954 ratings — published 2019
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.14 — 12,515 ratings — published 2015
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.94 — 584,862 ratings — published -500
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.09 — 58,786 ratings — published 2012
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,364,359 ratings — published 2018
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.25 — 89,604 ratings — published 2018
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.96 — 123,460 ratings — published 2007
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.37 — 909,059 ratings — published 1946
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.40 — 161,377 ratings — published 1980
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,848 ratings — published 2010
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.07 — 480,626 ratings — published 2012
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.08 — 212,073 ratings — published 2017
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.97 — 193,304 ratings — published 2013
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
by (shelved 11 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.08 — 72,383 ratings — published 2001
The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.28 — 343,377 ratings — published 2020
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.98 — 68,534 ratings — published 2014
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.16 — 195,397 ratings — published 1976
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.84 — 390,567 ratings — published 1532
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.01 — 123,438 ratings — published 1859
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.69 — 102,697 ratings — published 2005
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,157 ratings — published 1988
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.31 — 102,341 ratings — published 2019
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.19 — 32,794 ratings — published 2018
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.13 — 81,696 ratings — published 2019
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.95 — 58,534 ratings — published 2016
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.89 — 33,446 ratings — published 2010
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,171,946 ratings — published 1936
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.14 — 408,779 ratings — published 2014
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.88 — 94,902 ratings — published 2011
This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,853 ratings — published 2013
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.12 — 40,235 ratings — published 2014
“We ought to read mainly, not to know more, but to remind ourselves that we do not know much.”
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“No general knowledge is expressible except in abstract terms. There is nothing particularly difficult about abstractions. We use them every day of our lives and in every sort of conversation. However, the words "abstract" and "concrete" seem to trouble many persons. [How to Read a Book (1972), P. 283]”
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