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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,268,864 ratings — published 2011
Eye for Eye (Talion #1)
by (shelved 12 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.25 — 4,210 ratings — published 2019
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.19 — 117,800 ratings — published 2015
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 9 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.18 — 288,483 ratings — published 2015
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.16 — 625,248 ratings — published 2012
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.46 — 100,180 ratings — published 2009
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.01 — 899,182 ratings — published 2005
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.36 — 202,388 ratings — published 2018
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.22 — 423,986 ratings — published 2003
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.98 — 117,003 ratings — published 2012
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.19 — 25,083 ratings — published 2021
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.40 — 159,426 ratings — published 1980
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.16 — 46,560 ratings — published 2024
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.19 — 66,346 ratings — published 2012
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.17 — 49,050 ratings — published 2015
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.27 — 24,498 ratings — published 2011
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,368,506 ratings — published 1956
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,505,793 ratings — published 2003
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.94 — 74,796 ratings — published 2004
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.66 — 140,593 ratings — published 2003
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.69 — 102,563 ratings — published 2005
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.19 — 869,600 ratings — published 2008
How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.95 — 14,053 ratings — published 2022
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.93 — 511,794 ratings — published -800
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.27 — 17,272 ratings — published 2021
Death and the Penguin (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.78 — 22,503 ratings — published 1996
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.26 — 87,959 ratings — published 2018
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.25 — 11,229 ratings — published 2011
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.21 — 43,221 ratings — published 2014
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.09 — 63,427 ratings — published 2012
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,108,150 ratings — published 1967
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.47 — 405,584 ratings — published 2016
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.28 — 423,430 ratings — published 1967
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.06 — 82,114 ratings — published 2015
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.21 — 480,848 ratings — published 1988
The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,276 ratings — published 2014
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.04 — 459,213 ratings — published 1997
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.26 — 11,049 ratings — published 2002
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.34 — 184,386 ratings — published 2006
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.66 — 358,779 ratings — published 2006
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.75 — 413,964 ratings — published 1958
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.16 — 6,103 ratings — published 2025
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.93 — 41,859 ratings — published 2025
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.35 — 178,058 ratings — published 2021
The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.19 — 45,424 ratings — published 2001
Salt: A World History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.75 — 77,010 ratings — published 2002
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.07 — 84,342 ratings — published 2004
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.04 — 23,130 ratings — published 1988
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.90 — 60,534 ratings — published 2022
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917–2017 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.49 — 35,552 ratings — published 2020
“Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.”
― The Poems of John Donne (Volume 1); Miscellaneous Poems (Songs and Sonnets) Elegies. Epithalamions, or Marriage Songs. Satires. Epigrams. the Progress of the Soul. Notes
― The Poems of John Donne (Volume 1); Miscellaneous Poems (Songs and Sonnets) Elegies. Epithalamions, or Marriage Songs. Satires. Epigrams. the Progress of the Soul. Notes
“If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.”
― Something Rotten
― Something Rotten
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