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Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as people)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,376,772 ratings — published 2011
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as people)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,222,674 ratings — published 2018
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as people)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,265,929 ratings — published 1947
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as people)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,173,401 ratings — published 1936
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as people)
avg rating 4.12 — 450,950 ratings — published 2015
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 69 times as people)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,065,342 ratings — published 2011
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as people)
avg rating 4.16 — 632,203 ratings — published 2012
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as people)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,920,915 ratings — published 2018
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as people)
avg rating 4.49 — 827,872 ratings — published 2016
Yes Please (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as people)
avg rating 3.85 — 561,154 ratings — published 2014
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as people)
avg rating 4.37 — 295,982 ratings — published 1965
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 57 times as people)
avg rating 4.31 — 282,237 ratings — published 2020
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as people)
avg rating 4.19 — 879,938 ratings — published 2008
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as people)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,557,616 ratings — published 2022
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
by (shelved 45 times as people)
avg rating 3.86 — 516,138 ratings — published 2011
Einstein: His Life and Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as people)
avg rating 4.16 — 205,953 ratings — published 2007
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as people)
avg rating 4.26 — 220,874 ratings — published 1985
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 41 times as people)
avg rating 4.41 — 832,124 ratings — published 2016
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as people)
avg rating 4.13 — 818,142 ratings — published 2010
Greenlights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as people)
avg rating 4.20 — 477,884 ratings — published 2020
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as people)
avg rating 4.37 — 910,926 ratings — published 1946
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as people)
avg rating 4.19 — 390,399 ratings — published 2000
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as people)
avg rating 4.21 — 368,549 ratings — published 2010
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as people)
avg rating 4.45 — 380,294 ratings — published 2016
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 36 times as people)
avg rating 4.30 — 590,935 ratings — published 1969
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as people)
avg rating 4.17 — 132,658 ratings — published 2017
Spare (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as people)
avg rating 3.83 — 438,139 ratings — published 2023
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as people)
avg rating 4.21 — 181,047 ratings — published 1984
The Princess Diarist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as people)
avg rating 3.69 — 92,338 ratings — published 2016
Long Walk to Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as people)
avg rating 4.36 — 95,674 ratings — published 1994
The 48 Laws of Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as people)
avg rating 4.08 — 236,087 ratings — published 1999
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as people)
avg rating 4.22 — 203,763 ratings — published 2004
Wishful Drinking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as people)
avg rating 3.82 — 95,114 ratings — published 2008
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as people)
avg rating 3.94 — 232,260 ratings — published 1995
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as people)
avg rating 4.23 — 626,279 ratings — published 2021
The Last Lecture (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 29 times as people)
avg rating 4.26 — 366,575 ratings — published 2008
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as people)
avg rating 4.07 — 878,707 ratings — published 2012
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as people)
avg rating 3.90 — 202,799 ratings — published 2012
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as people)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,386,763 ratings — published 1956
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as people)
avg rating 4.40 — 372,404 ratings — published 2015
The Woman in Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as people)
avg rating 3.83 — 588,379 ratings — published 2023
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as people)
avg rating 3.94 — 413,853 ratings — published 2022
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as people)
avg rating 4.00 — 341,211 ratings — published 2019
Why Not Me? (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as people)
avg rating 3.90 — 227,725 ratings — published 2015
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 26 times as people)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,209,449 ratings — published 1996
Finding Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as people)
avg rating 4.53 — 190,211 ratings — published 2022
Know My Name (ebook)
by (shelved 24 times as people)
avg rating 4.68 — 267,226 ratings — published 2019
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,388,262 ratings — published 2005
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as people)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,297,610 ratings — published 2011
The Story of My Life (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as people)
avg rating 4.07 — 151,731 ratings — published 1902
“I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”
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“Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another?
We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
