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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 4.18 — 126,911 ratings — published 2015
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,342,672 ratings — published 2011
Eye for Eye (Talion #1)
by (shelved 12 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,267 ratings — published 2019
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 11 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.18 — 297,693 ratings — published 2015
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.01 — 914,176 ratings — published 2005
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 — 642,805 ratings — published 2012
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.21 — 438,782 ratings — published 2003
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.18 — 27,855 ratings — published 2021
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.46 — 106,634 ratings — published 2009
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.98 — 119,853 ratings — published 2012
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 — 208,351 ratings — published 2018
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.94 — 76,118 ratings — published 2004
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.19 — 895,614 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 — 56,980 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 — 70,019 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 — 68,213 ratings — published 2012
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.16 — 53,168 ratings — published 2015
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.40 — 164,788 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 — 25,331 ratings — published 2011
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,412,317 ratings — published 2012
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 — 18,827 ratings — published 2021
Mornings in Jenin (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.53 — 59,685 ratings — published 2006
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.46 — 433,841 ratings — published 2016
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.27 — 457,522 ratings — published 1967
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.04 — 476,307 ratings — published 1997
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,634,634 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 — 102,864 ratings — published 2005
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.07 — 13,291 ratings — published 2025
The Blind Owl (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.94 — 37,955 ratings — published 1937
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.04 — 24,670 ratings — published 1988
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.89 — 65,906 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 — 15,076 ratings — published 2022
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.72 — 35,879 ratings — published 1966
Sophie’s World (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.97 — 294,237 ratings — published 1991
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.94 — 543,216 ratings — published -750
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.31 — 760,602 ratings — published 2001
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,858 ratings — published 1988
Death and the Penguin (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.77 — 24,136 ratings — published 1996
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.25 — 92,169 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 — 11,722 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 — 30,073 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 — 45,274 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 — 33,151 ratings — published 2018
Frankenstein in Baghdad (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.59 — 21,613 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 4.20 — 74,462 ratings — published 1998
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,162,539 ratings — published 1967
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.19 — 369,123 ratings — published 1995
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.05 — 89,260 ratings — published 2015
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.21 — 496,301 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 — 33,054 ratings — published 2014
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