64 books
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51 voters
The World Books
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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 13 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.19 — 120,971 ratings — published 2015
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,294,530 ratings — published 2011
Eye for Eye (Talion #1)
by (shelved 12 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.25 — 4,239 ratings — published 2019
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 10 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.18 — 291,949 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 — 631,480 ratings — published 2012
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.22 — 429,154 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 — 904,493 ratings — published 2005
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.46 — 102,186 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 4.19 — 26,106 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 — 204,379 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 — 118,167 ratings — published 2012
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,255 ratings — published 2004
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.19 — 878,735 ratings — published 2008
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.19 — 67,652 ratings — published 2012
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.16 — 50,496 ratings — published 2015
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.40 — 161,302 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 — 24,801 ratings — published 2011
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,384,717 ratings — published 1956
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 — 50,514 ratings — published 2024
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.27 — 17,942 ratings — published 2021
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.08 — 65,101 ratings — published 2012
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.04 — 465,121 ratings — published 1997
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,549,319 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 — 102,686 ratings — published 2005
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 — 14,437 ratings — published 2022
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.93 — 521,371 ratings — published -800
Death and the Penguin (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.77 — 23,086 ratings — published 1996
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.26 — 89,552 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 — 11,397 ratings — published 2011
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,843 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 — 43,929 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 — 32,780 ratings — published 2018
Frankenstein in Baghdad (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.59 — 20,488 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 — 71,099 ratings — published 1998
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,126,541 ratings — published 1967
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.47 — 415,722 ratings — published 2016
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.18 — 348,159 ratings — published 1995
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.28 — 434,569 ratings — published 1967
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.05 — 84,551 ratings — published 2015
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.21 — 486,272 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 — 31,324 ratings — published 2014
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.10 — 58,736 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 — 11,105 ratings — published 2002
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.34 — 187,875 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 — 359,117 ratings — published 2006
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.67 — 142,185 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 — 134,798 ratings — published 2009
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as the-world)
avg rating 3.75 — 419,529 ratings — published 1958
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.11 — 9,291 ratings — published 2025
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as the-world)
avg rating 4.33 — 253,415 ratings — published 2025
“The real world is where the monsters are.”
― The Lightning Thief
― The Lightning Thief
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