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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,246,656 ratings — published 2011
Eye for Eye (Talion #1)
by (shelved 12 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.25 — 4,195 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 — 115,447 ratings — published 2015
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 9 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.18 — 285,832 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 — 620,023 ratings — published 2012
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.22 — 420,253 ratings — published 2003
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.46 — 98,964 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 — 894,507 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 — 200,812 ratings — published 2018
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.98 — 116,416 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 — 24,425 ratings — published 2021
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.40 — 158,209 ratings — published 1980
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.06 — 80,525 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 — 24,278 ratings — published 2011
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.26 — 10,991 ratings — published 2002
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,355,207 ratings — published 1956
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,468,714 ratings — published 2003
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.94 — 74,519 ratings — published 2004
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.66 — 140,004 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 — 102,480 ratings — published
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.19 — 861,058 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 — 13,806 ratings — published 2022
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.93 — 506,475 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 — 16,860 ratings — published 2021
Death and the Penguin (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.78 — 22,129 ratings — published 1996
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.26 — 86,739 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 — 11,125 ratings — published 2011
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.19 — 65,461 ratings — published 2012
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.21 — 42,700 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 — 62,173 ratings — published 2012
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,096,428 ratings — published 1967
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.17 — 48,145 ratings — published 2015
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.95 — 60,157 ratings — published 2010
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.47 — 399,602 ratings — published 2016
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.28 — 416,335 ratings — published 1967
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.21 — 476,481 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 — 29,516 ratings — published 2014
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.15 — 78,941 ratings — published 2014
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.04 — 454,551 ratings — published 1997
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.34 — 182,062 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 — 358,569 ratings — published 2006
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.16 — 43,490 ratings — published 2024
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.35 — 172,585 ratings — published 2021
The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.19 — 45,205 ratings — published 2001
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.90 — 59,331 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 — 34,290 ratings — published 2020
The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.33 — 24,970 ratings — published 1945
A Man Called Ove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,201,356 ratings — published 2012
The Idiot (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.21 — 215,326 ratings — published 1869
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.64 — 67,863 ratings — published 2000
“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
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“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
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