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The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as global)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,488,438 ratings — published 2003
State of Fear (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 91,759 ratings — published 2004
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as global)
avg rating 3.74 — 412,133 ratings — published 1958
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 622,854 ratings — published 2012
Americanah (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 412,108 ratings — published 2013
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.45 — 1,732,367 ratings — published 2007
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as global)
avg rating 4.19 — 116,564 ratings — published 2015
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 170,914 ratings — published 2010
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as global)
avg rating 3.66 — 358,660 ratings — published 2006
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,258,480 ratings — published 2011
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 1,103,140 ratings — published 1967
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as global)
avg rating 4.34 — 622,608 ratings — published 2017
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as global)
avg rating 4.34 — 183,158 ratings — published 2006
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as global)
avg rating 4.04 — 456,991 ratings — published 1997
Homegoing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 402,273 ratings — published 2016
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as global)
avg rating 3.98 — 116,693 ratings — published 2012
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 324,936 ratings — published 1997
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 206,235 ratings — published 1999
Eye for Eye (Talion #1)
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avg rating 4.25 — 4,200 ratings — published 2019
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.67 — 372,371 ratings — published 2016
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 805,487 ratings — published 2016
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 205,019 ratings — published 2007
Cutting for Stone (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 426,342 ratings — published 2009
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as global)
avg rating 4.20 — 88,714 ratings — published 2003
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 194,100 ratings — published 2007
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 53,690 ratings — published 2007
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 201,618 ratings — published 2018
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 55,641 ratings — published 2008
The Alchemist (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 3,562,028 ratings — published 1988
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 318,992 ratings — published 1982
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 792,975 ratings — published 1998
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as global)
avg rating 3.65 — 378,628 ratings — published 2007
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,108,960 ratings — published 1997
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.69 — 102,512 ratings — published 2005
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
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avg rating 4.31 — 718,746 ratings — published 2001
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
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avg rating 4.27 — 230,229 ratings — published 2003
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 54,085 ratings — published 2000
And the Mountains Echoed (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 403,813 ratings — published 2012
Like Water for Chocolate (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 394,481 ratings — published 1989
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 546,441 ratings — published 1985
Salt: A World History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 76,648 ratings — published 2002
American Dirt (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 684,189 ratings — published 2020
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 419,498 ratings — published 1967
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 727,802 ratings — published 1987
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.46 — 99,495 ratings — published 2009
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 11,243 ratings — published 2005
The Art of War (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 570,257 ratings — published -500
The Namesake (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 283,737 ratings — published 2003
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 39,559 ratings — published 2005
“Our incredible bewilderment (wilderness separation) blinds us from seeing that our many personal and global problems primarily result from our assault of and separation from the natural creation process within and around us. Our estrangement from nature leaves us wanting,and when we want there is never enough. Our insatiable wanting is called greed. It is a major source of our destructive dependencies and violence.”
― Reconnecting With Nature: Finding Wellness Through Restoring Your Bond With the Earth
― Reconnecting With Nature: Finding Wellness Through Restoring Your Bond With the Earth
“humans have a global benchmark-standard of conduct that called humanity”
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