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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 369 times as society)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,332,258 ratings — published 2011
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 299 times as society)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,777,608 ratings — published 1949
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 242 times as society)
avg rating 4.04 — 473,735 ratings — published 1997
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 233 times as society)
avg rating 4.18 — 296,348 ratings — published 2015
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 218 times as society)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,820,561 ratings — published 1945
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 218 times as society)
avg rating 4.15 — 182,662 ratings — published 2018
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 190 times as society)
avg rating 4.35 — 207,159 ratings — published 2018
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 181 times as society)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,795 ratings — published 2004
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 180 times as society)
avg rating 4.33 — 182,943 ratings — published 2019
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as society)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,157,635 ratings — published 1932
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 165 times as society)
avg rating 4.19 — 69,397 ratings — published 2012
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 159 times as society)
avg rating 4.01 — 912,157 ratings — published 2005
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 144 times as society)
avg rating 4.08 — 67,442 ratings — published 2012
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as society)
avg rating 4.01 — 868,589 ratings — published 2000
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 130 times as society)
avg rating 4.01 — 37,164 ratings — published 2018
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as society)
avg rating 4.17 — 41,746 ratings — published 1985
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 123 times as society)
avg rating 4.07 — 486,160 ratings — published 2012
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 123 times as society)
avg rating 4.21 — 44,752 ratings — published 2014
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as society)
avg rating 4.52 — 168,480 ratings — published 2020
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as society)
avg rating 4.47 — 118,616 ratings — published 2016
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as society)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,606 ratings — published 2010
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as society)
avg rating 4.19 — 891,775 ratings — published 2008
Humankind: A Hopeful History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as society)
avg rating 4.31 — 86,129 ratings — published 2019
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 109 times as society)
avg rating 4.22 — 59,466 ratings — published 2018
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as society)
avg rating 4.15 — 30,023 ratings — published 2010
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 100 times as society)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,543 ratings — published 2018
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as society)
avg rating 4.30 — 222,586 ratings — published 2024
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as society)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,997,848 ratings — published 1963
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as society)
avg rating 4.31 — 56,476 ratings — published 2007
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as society)
avg rating 4.37 — 102,316 ratings — published 2017
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 97 times as society)
avg rating 4.39 — 342,211 ratings — published 2012
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as society)
avg rating 4.05 — 14,311 ratings — published 2018
Capital in the Twenty First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as society)
avg rating 4.06 — 35,444 ratings — published 2013
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as society)
avg rating 4.28 — 113,600 ratings — published 2017
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as society)
avg rating 4.19 — 33,072 ratings — published 2018
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as society)
avg rating 3.83 — 515,605 ratings — published 2016
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as society)
avg rating 4.40 — 376,757 ratings — published 2015
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as society)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,694 ratings — published 1988
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as society)
avg rating 4.19 — 29,005 ratings — published 2021
The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as society)
avg rating 4.19 — 14,941 ratings — published 2020
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as society)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,566,859 ratings — published 1985
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as society)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,320,823 ratings — published 1954
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as society)
avg rating 3.70 — 210,317 ratings — published 1848
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as society)
avg rating 4.21 — 28,474 ratings — published 2011
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as society)
avg rating 4.00 — 344,944 ratings — published 2019
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as society)
avg rating 4.21 — 44,501 ratings — published 2009
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 79 times as society)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,907 ratings — published 2001
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as society)
avg rating 4.36 — 121,082 ratings — published 2019
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as society)
avg rating 4.16 — 28,198 ratings — published 2014
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as society)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,809 ratings — published 2018
“Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.”
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“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.”
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