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Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 4.19 — 894,854 ratings — published 2008
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,340,710 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 4.21 — 438,418 ratings — published 2003
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 4.01 — 870,254 ratings — published 2000
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 4.07 — 487,766 ratings — published 2012
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 3.96 — 632,951 ratings — published 2005
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 4.09 — 761,421 ratings — published 1966
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 4.01 — 913,838 ratings — published 2005
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 4.40 — 377,929 ratings — published 2015
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 4.04 — 475,942 ratings — published 1997
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 4.34 — 329,985 ratings — published 2000
The Library Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 3.88 — 128,945 ratings — published 2018
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 4.27 — 594,928 ratings — published 1997
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 4.49 — 228,610 ratings — published 2014
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 4.06 — 250,747 ratings — published 2003
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 4.16 — 621,921 ratings — published 2011
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 3.99 — 100,559 ratings — published 2010
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 4.00 — 787,409 ratings — published 2003
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 4.14 — 834,167 ratings — published 2010
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,995,974 ratings — published 2018
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 4.47 — 119,152 ratings — published 2016
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 3.84 — 125,059 ratings — published 1998
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 4.36 — 950,086 ratings — published 1946
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 18 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 3.66 — 197,080 ratings — published 2001
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 4.47 — 201,991 ratings — published 2018
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 4.31 — 312,400 ratings — published 2025
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 4.00 — 346,059 ratings — published 2019
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 4.35 — 208,188 ratings — published 2018
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 4.41 — 861,411 ratings — published 2016
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 4.13 — 202,244 ratings — published 2014
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,355,106 ratings — published 1947
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 4.07 — 461,006 ratings — published 1998
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 4.53 — 155,473 ratings — published 2021
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 4.33 — 185,195 ratings — published 2019
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 4.13 — 580,373 ratings — published 2012
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 3.98 — 119,799 ratings — published 2012
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 4.30 — 241,136 ratings — published 2009
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 3.79 — 128,624 ratings — published 2021
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 4.12 — 159,053 ratings — published 2021
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 4.40 — 294,791 ratings — published 2018
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 4.36 — 241,324 ratings — published 2017
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 4.04 — 256,175 ratings — published 1985
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,628 ratings — published 2010
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 3.87 — 107,062 ratings — published 2003
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 4.19 — 212,777 ratings — published 2006
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 4.01 — 233,065 ratings — published 2003
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 4.52 — 169,894 ratings — published 2020
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,500,484 ratings — published 2016
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 13 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 4.18 — 297,488 ratings — published 2015
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as non-fiction-general)
avg rating 3.86 — 61,428 ratings — published 2008