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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,305,159 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.04 — 467,633 ratings — published 1997
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.84 — 395,080 ratings — published 1513
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 37 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.18 — 293,204 ratings — published 2015
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.37 — 917,873 ratings — published 1946
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.97 — 230,597 ratings — published -400
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.17 — 606,861 ratings — published 2011
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.69 — 205,779 ratings — published 1848
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,232,345 ratings — published -700
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.15 — 180,818 ratings — published 2018
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.94 — 588,651 ratings — published -500
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,078,200 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 26 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.19 — 122,234 ratings — published 2015
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.12 — 45,922 ratings — published 1949
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.14 — 30,870 ratings — published 1978
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.08 — 65,780 ratings — published 2012
The Power of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.26 — 54,393 ratings — published 1988
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.28 — 370,621 ratings — published 180
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.21 — 431,332 ratings — published 2003
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.02 — 118,186 ratings — published 1886
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.76 — 122,122 ratings — published -1800
The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.90 — 286,613 ratings — published 2006
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.93 — 525,408 ratings — published -750
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.88 — 146,837 ratings — published -19
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.01 — 906,787 ratings — published 2005
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.00 — 62,472 ratings — published -350
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,893 ratings — published 2010
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 — 205,157 ratings — published 2018
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.39 — 338,097 ratings — published 2012
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.18 — 48,684 ratings — published 1949
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.03 — 210,809 ratings — published 1321
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.19 — 27,999 ratings — published 2021
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.21 — 42,895 ratings — published 2009
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.29 — 186,340 ratings — published -350
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.07 — 181,088 ratings — published 1883
A History of Western Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.13 — 42,080 ratings — published 1945
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,507 ratings — published 1957
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.23 — 37,911 ratings — published 1975
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,387 ratings — published 2004
Chasing Lincoln's Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.84 — 12,817 ratings — published 2009
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,658,785 ratings — published 1948
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.09 — 93,654 ratings — published -380
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.29 — 115,541 ratings — published 2017
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,041,176 ratings — published 1960
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.01 — 76,988 ratings — published 400
On Liberty (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.96 — 44,358 ratings — published 1859
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.83 — 30,480 ratings — published -335
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.30 — 28,205 ratings — published 2009
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.19 — 882,563 ratings — published 2008
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.03 — 24,141 ratings — published 1967
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