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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,341,649 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.04 — 476,136 ratings — published 1997
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.84 — 404,499 ratings — published 1513
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.97 — 235,017 ratings — published -400
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.36 — 951,104 ratings — published 1946
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 37 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.18 — 297,620 ratings — published 2015
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,301,555 ratings — published -800
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.16 — 622,341 ratings — published 2011
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.70 — 212,403 ratings — published 1848
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.15 — 183,375 ratings — published 2018
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.94 — 603,614 ratings — published -500
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,097,827 ratings — published 1601
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.18 — 126,822 ratings — published 2015
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.12 — 46,569 ratings — published 1949
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.08 — 68,154 ratings — published 2012
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,775 ratings — published 1978
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.01 — 914,023 ratings — published 2005
The Power of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.26 — 54,929 ratings — published 1988
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.27 — 388,353 ratings — published 180
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.21 — 438,631 ratings — published 2003
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.03 — 121,936 ratings — published 1886
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.76 — 125,528 ratings — published -1800
The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.90 — 289,220 ratings — published 2006
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.94 — 542,915 ratings — published -750
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.88 — 150,081 ratings — published -19
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.07 — 185,785 ratings — published 1883
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.01 — 64,138 ratings — published -350
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.15 — 30,071 ratings — published 2010
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.19 — 29,468 ratings — published 2021
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.35 — 208,288 ratings — published 2018
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.39 — 344,045 ratings — published 2012
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.19 — 49,768 ratings — published 1949
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.03 — 214,683 ratings — published 1321
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.21 — 45,226 ratings — published 2009
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.28 — 189,569 ratings — published -350
On Liberty (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.96 — 45,206 ratings — published 1859
A History of Western Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.13 — 42,561 ratings — published 1945
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,787 ratings — published 1957
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.23 — 38,824 ratings — published 1975
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.09 — 96,747 ratings — published -380
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.94 — 76,098 ratings — published 2004
Chasing Lincoln's Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.84 — 13,009 ratings — published 2009
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.02 — 80,551 ratings — published 400
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.19 — 69,971 ratings — published 2012
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.19 — 33,146 ratings — published 2018
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.28 — 114,974 ratings — published 2017
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.29 — 16,049 ratings — published 1951
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,165,677 ratings — published 1960
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.83 — 31,305 ratings — published -335
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.30 — 28,774 ratings — published 2009
“In my parents' day and age, it used to be the person who fell short. Now it's the discipline. Reading the classics is too difficult, therefore it's the classics that are to blame. Today the student asserts his incapacity as a privilege. I can't learn it, so there is something wrong with it. And there is something especially wrong with the bad teacher who wants to teach it. There are no more criteria, Mr. Zuckerman, only opinions.”
― The Human Stain
― The Human Stain
“A different voice may be particularly effective in disturbing the existing participants into re-examining matters they had come to take for granted.”
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