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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,265,590 ratings — published 2011
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.37 — 881,272 ratings — published 1946
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.19 — 868,417 ratings — published 2008
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as understanding)
avg rating 3.97 — 226,432 ratings — published -400
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.18 — 288,036 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 4.08 — 475,831 ratings — published 2012
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.17 — 590,442 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.04 — 458,548 ratings — published 1997
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.21 — 480,227 ratings — published 1988
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.22 — 423,418 ratings — published 2003
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.29 — 108,206 ratings — published 2017
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.00 — 60,488 ratings — published -350
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.13 — 146,672 ratings — published 2021
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,306,251 ratings — published 2018
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,434,745 ratings — published 1915
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.40 — 367,103 ratings — published 2015
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.52 — 117,455 ratings — published 2010
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.08 — 142,374 ratings — published 2016
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,407,916 ratings — published 1942
The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.19 — 45,384 ratings — published 2001
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.03 — 114,491 ratings — published 1886
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.29 — 243,260 ratings — published 2012
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.39 — 331,249 ratings — published 2012
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.41 — 809,613 ratings — published 2016
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.29 — 182,790 ratings — published -350
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 3.77 — 204,505 ratings — published 1854
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.30 — 582,527 ratings — published 1969
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.35 — 30,348 ratings — published 2003
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,626 ratings — published 1979
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.15 — 452,094 ratings — published 1997
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.10 — 57,774 ratings — published 2012
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,826,620 ratings — published 1590
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,429,150 ratings — published 2017
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,480,683 ratings — published 1949
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,567,469 ratings — published 1945
Men Who Hate Women: The Extremism Nobody is Talking About (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.33 — 29,359 ratings — published 2020
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.44 — 17,447 ratings — published 2020
Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 3.62 — 4,610 ratings — published 2023
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.47 — 800,185 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 4.44 — 46,120 ratings — published 2017
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,866,988 ratings — published 2018
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.15 — 177,878 ratings — published 2018
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.46 — 22,003 ratings — published 2013
Chasing Love: Sawyer (Wild Romance Saga, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.41 — 260 ratings — published 2020
The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.36 — 23,585 ratings — published 2017
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.30 — 14,819 ratings — published 1951
The Denial of Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.05 — 15,989 ratings — published 1973
Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.18 — 106,925 ratings — published 2007
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.35 — 282,304 ratings — published 2014
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.06 — 81,858 ratings — published 2015
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
― I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
“Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.”
― Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
― Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
