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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,337,371 ratings — published 2011
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 4.20 — 155,799 ratings — published 2007
The Last Lecture (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 4.26 — 369,659 ratings — published 2008
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 4.31 — 56,097 ratings — published 2020
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 4.34 — 196,689 ratings — published 2021
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 4.36 — 946,601 ratings — published 1946
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 4.12 — 36,169 ratings — published 2016
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 893,761 ratings — published 2008
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 4.35 — 207,655 ratings — published 2018
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 4.19 — 116,269 ratings — published 2014
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 3.96 — 632,341 ratings — published 2005
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 4.01 — 913,304 ratings — published 2005
Atlas Shrugged (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 3.69 — 412,840 ratings — published 1957
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 3.89 — 33,969 ratings — published 2010
This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,175 ratings — published 2012
E=mc²: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 4.10 — 8,455 ratings — published 2000
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,649 ratings — published 1996
Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You & Your World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 2,714 ratings — published 1990
The Secret Destiny of America (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 761 ratings — published 1944
Worlds in Collision (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,094 ratings — published 1950
The Myth of the Eternal Return or, Cosmos and History (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,519 ratings — published 1949
The Holographic Universe (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 4.09 — 10,835 ratings — published 1991
How to Know Higher Worlds: A Modern Path of Initiation (Classics in Anthroposophy)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,321 ratings — published 1904
The Road to Serfdom (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 4.14 — 26,932 ratings — published 1944
Neuropolitics: Thinking, Culture, Speed (Theory out of Bounds, Vol. 23)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 3.89 — 62 ratings — published 2002
Dissection of a Murder (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 4.07 — 55,784 ratings — published 2026
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Experimental Futures)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,135 ratings — published 2016
Causal Inference: The Mixtape (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 4.38 — 261 ratings — published
Bee Season Reading Group Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 3.36 — 56 ratings — published
Tom Lake (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 3.92 — 556,158 ratings — published 2023
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 4.32 — 17,716 ratings — published 2018
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,989,635 ratings — published 2018
The Book of Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 3.79 — 3,580 ratings — published 1976
Calculated (Calculated #1)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,363 ratings — published 2021
sadananda (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 4.03 — 37 ratings — published
The City and Its Uncertain Walls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 3.73 — 49,632 ratings — published 2023
Intermezzo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 3.78 — 412,725 ratings — published 2024
Dubliners (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 3.83 — 187,026 ratings — published 1914
You Are the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 4.30 — 348 ratings — published 1972
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 4.02 — 31,268 ratings — published 1962
New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 4.01 — 966 ratings — published 1725
The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its Implications (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,173 ratings — published 1996
The Glass Bead Game (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 44,122 ratings — published 1943
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 4.17 — 10,437 ratings — published 2011
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 4.34 — 119,028 ratings — published 2010
Gravity’s Rainbow (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 4.02 — 50,513 ratings — published 1973
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.81 — 42,713 ratings — published 2005
Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 2,895 ratings — published 2018
All That Remains: A Life in Death (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 17,102 ratings — published 2018
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectually-stimulating)
avg rating 4.21 — 113,667 ratings — published 2014