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Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.19 — 123,793 ratings — published 2015
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,319,418 ratings — published 2011
Eye for Eye (Talion #1)
by (shelved 12 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,246 ratings — published 2019
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 10 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.18 — 294,778 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 — 637,263 ratings — published 2012
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.21 — 433,911 ratings — published 2003
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.01 — 909,610 ratings — published 2005
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.46 — 104,370 ratings — published 2009
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.18 — 26,998 ratings — published 2021
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 4.35 — 206,158 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 — 119,104 ratings — published 2012
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,551 ratings — published 2004
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.19 — 887,365 ratings — published 2008
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.15 — 53,802 ratings — published 2024
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.19 — 68,864 ratings — published 2012
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.08 — 66,660 ratings — published 2012
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.16 — 51,802 ratings — published 2015
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.40 — 163,025 ratings — published 1980
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.27 — 25,085 ratings — published 2011
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,398,471 ratings — published 1956
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,404 ratings — published 2021
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.47 — 425,229 ratings — published 2016
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.04 — 470,754 ratings — published 1997
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,594,283 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 — 102,780 ratings — published 2005
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.89 — 64,260 ratings — published 2022
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 3.94 — 14,738 ratings — published 2022
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.94 — 532,502 ratings — published -750
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,494 ratings — published 1988
Death and the Penguin (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.77 — 23,625 ratings — published 1996
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.25 — 90,893 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 — 11,546 ratings — published 2011
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.15 — 29,964 ratings — published 2010
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.21 — 44,519 ratings — published 2014
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.19 — 32,990 ratings — published 2018
Frankenstein in Baghdad (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.59 — 21,041 ratings — published 2013
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.19 — 72,675 ratings — published 1998
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,143,030 ratings — published 1967
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.18 — 355,974 ratings — published 1995
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.28 — 445,504 ratings — published 1925
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.05 — 86,775 ratings — published 2015
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.21 — 491,628 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 4.32 — 32,161 ratings — published 2014
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.10 — 59,514 ratings — published 2012
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.26 — 11,149 ratings — published 2002
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.34 — 191,276 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 — 359,390 ratings — published 2006
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.67 — 143,488 ratings — published 2003
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.00 — 135,078 ratings — published 2009
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.21 — 90,857 ratings — published 1997
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
― Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings
― Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings
“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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