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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 368 times as society)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,319,563 ratings — published 2011
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 294 times as society)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,721,996 ratings — published 1949
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 238 times as society)
avg rating 4.04 — 470,786 ratings — published 1997
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 231 times as society)
avg rating 4.18 — 294,803 ratings — published 2015
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 218 times as society)
avg rating 4.15 — 181,695 ratings — published 2018
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 216 times as society)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,774,325 ratings — published 1945
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 191 times as society)
avg rating 4.35 — 206,167 ratings — published 2018
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 179 times as society)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,551 ratings — published 2004
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 178 times as society)
avg rating 4.33 — 180,463 ratings — published 2019
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 171 times as society)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,143,039 ratings — published 1932
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 164 times as society)
avg rating 4.19 — 68,868 ratings — published 2012
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 159 times as society)
avg rating 4.01 — 909,633 ratings — published 2005
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 142 times as society)
avg rating 4.08 — 66,670 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 — 866,177 ratings — published 2000
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as society)
avg rating 4.01 — 36,713 ratings — published 2018
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as society)
avg rating 4.17 — 41,205 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 — 484,318 ratings — published 2012
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 122 times as society)
avg rating 4.21 — 44,523 ratings — published 2014
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as society)
avg rating 4.47 — 117,891 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 — 120,139 ratings — published 2010
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as society)
avg rating 4.19 — 887,432 ratings — published 2008
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as society)
avg rating 4.52 — 167,301 ratings — published 2020
Humankind: A Hopeful History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as society)
avg rating 4.31 — 85,122 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 108 times as society)
avg rating 4.22 — 59,053 ratings — published 2018
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as society)
avg rating 4.15 — 29,962 ratings — published 2010
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as society)
avg rating 4.29 — 117,542 ratings — published 2017
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 100 times as society)
avg rating 4.39 — 340,253 ratings — published 2012
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as society)
avg rating 4.30 — 56,021 ratings — published 2007
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as society)
avg rating 4.30 — 216,795 ratings — published 2024
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 98 times as society)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,178 ratings — published 2018
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as society)
avg rating 4.37 — 102,078 ratings — published 2017
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as society)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,968,972 ratings — published 1963
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as society)
avg rating 4.19 — 32,989 ratings — published 2018
Capital in the Twenty First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as society)
avg rating 4.06 — 35,304 ratings — published 2013
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as society)
avg rating 4.05 — 14,158 ratings — published 2018
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as society)
avg rating 4.40 — 375,153 ratings — published 2015
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as society)
avg rating 3.83 — 513,760 ratings — published 2016
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as society)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,495 ratings — published 1988
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as society)
avg rating 4.19 — 28,509 ratings — published 2021
The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as society)
avg rating 4.19 — 14,810 ratings — published 2020
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as society)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,543,085 ratings — published 1985
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as society)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,300,640 ratings — published 1954
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as society)
avg rating 3.69 — 208,232 ratings — published 1848
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as society)
avg rating 4.21 — 28,221 ratings — published 2011
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 79 times as society)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,744 ratings — published 2001
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as society)
avg rating 4.00 — 343,525 ratings — published 2019
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as society)
avg rating 4.21 — 43,735 ratings — published 2009
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as society)
avg rating 4.16 — 28,119 ratings — published 2014
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as society)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,868 ratings — published 2019
No Logo (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as society)
avg rating 3.89 — 33,245 ratings — published 2000
“Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group encounters, orgies, biking, herbs, Catholicism, weight-lifting, travel, withdrawal, vegetarianism, India, painting, writing, sculpting, composing, conducting, backpacking, yoga, copulating, gambling, drinking, hanging around, frozen yogurt, Beethoven, Back, Buddha, Christ, TM, H, carrot juice, suicide, handmade suits, jet travel, New York City, and then it all evaporated and fell apart. People had to find things to do while waiting to die. I guess it was nice to have a choice.”
― Women
― Women
“The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
