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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,337,712 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.21 — 437,708 ratings — published 2003
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.35 — 207,729 ratings — published 2018
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.04 — 475,147 ratings — published 1997
The Book of General Ignorance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.75 — 11,380 ratings — published 2006
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.21 — 495,436 ratings — published 1988
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.19 — 893,901 ratings — published 2008
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.13 — 201,945 ratings — published 2014
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 620,753 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 — 913,357 ratings — published 2005
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 24 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.18 — 297,099 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 — 869,781 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 4.18 — 126,211 ratings — published 2015
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.96 — 632,405 ratings — published 2005
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.36 — 240,194 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 — 2,440 ratings — published 1987
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 183,061 ratings — published 2018
The 48 Laws of Power (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 247,408 ratings — published 1999
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.08 — 67,815 ratings — published 2012
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 12,671 ratings — published 2015
The Art of War (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 601,674 ratings — published -500
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.09 — 60,104 ratings — published 2012
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.96 — 125,580 ratings — published 2007
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 — 345,663 ratings — published 2019
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.25 — 91,915 ratings — published 2018
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
by (shelved 13 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.08 — 74,005 ratings — published 2001
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,437,691 ratings — published 2018
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 218,098 ratings — published 2017
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 947,019 ratings — published 1946
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 164,412 ratings — published 1980
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 487,171 ratings — published 2012
The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.27 — 370,960 ratings — published 2020
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.15 — 30,055 ratings — published 2010
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 194,890 ratings — published 2013
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,793 ratings — published 1988
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 105,582 ratings — published 2019
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 70,774 ratings — published 2014
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 423,049 ratings — published 2014
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 198,617 ratings — published 1976
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 124,982 ratings — published 1859
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.69 — 102,849 ratings — published 2005
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.19 — 33,124 ratings — published 2018
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 84,434 ratings — published 2019
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 59,218 ratings — published 2016
Meditations (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 386,155 ratings — published 180
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 33,976 ratings — published 2010
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 1,200,876 ratings — published 1936
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 95,731 ratings — published 2011
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 40,699 ratings — published 2014
The Prince (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 403,208 ratings — published 1513
“Lord Krishna taught Arjuna, the bhagavad gita; What might have been the teaching of Saguni to Duryodhana? Will it be the same?”
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“We ought to read mainly, not to know more, but to remind ourselves that we do not know much.”
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