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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,339,263 ratings — published 2011
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 948,626 ratings — published 1946
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 894,364 ratings — published 2008
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as understanding)
avg rating 3.97 — 234,614 ratings — published -400
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,917 ratings — published 2010
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.18 — 297,309 ratings — published 2015
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.07 — 487,503 ratings — published 2012
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 343,554 ratings — published 2012
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 621,394 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.04 — 475,598 ratings — published 1997
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 495,729 ratings — published 1988
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 438,088 ratings — published 2003
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.01 — 63,978 ratings — published -350
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.01 — 57,551 ratings — published -430
Girl in Pieces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 3.93 — 291,363 ratings — published 2016
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.32 — 103,033 ratings — published 2021
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 377,745 ratings — published 2015
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 148,844 ratings — published 2016
The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 46,396 ratings — published 2001
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 125,079 ratings — published 1859
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 121,684 ratings — published 1886
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.29 — 250,709 ratings — published 2012
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.41 — 860,393 ratings — published 2016
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 209,421 ratings — published 1854
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
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avg rating 4.30 — 600,976 ratings — published 1969
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 35,664 ratings — published 2003
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 54,314 ratings — published 1979
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 478,152 ratings — published
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 60,180 ratings — published 2012
Sirf Dil Nahi, Samajh Bhi Chahiye (Hindi Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.45 — 11 ratings — published
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 114,624 ratings — published 2017
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 2,900,525 ratings — published 1590
Purity and Danger (Routledge Classics)
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avg rating 3.98 — 2,550 ratings — published 1966
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games)
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avg rating 4.49 — 1,366,266 ratings — published 2025
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,506,461 ratings — published 2017
Funny Story (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.18 — 1,463,935 ratings — published 2024
Men Who Hate Women: The Extremism Nobody is Talking About (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.32 — 34,522 ratings — published 2020
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.43 — 18,594 ratings — published 2020
Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.61 — 5,314 ratings — published 2023
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 923,271 ratings — published 2022
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.43 — 49,035 ratings — published 2017
Educated (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 1,993,416 ratings — published 2018
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)
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avg rating 4.39 — 45,685 ratings — published 2021
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 183,186 ratings — published 2018
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.45 — 23,538 ratings — published 2013
Chasing Love: Sawyer (Wild Romance Saga, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.38 — 272 ratings — published 2020
The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity (ebook)
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avg rating 4.35 — 25,028 ratings — published 2017
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 16,012 ratings — published 1951
The Denial of Death (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 17,141 ratings — published 1973
Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 112,236 ratings — published 2007
“Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”
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― I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
