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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,313,547 ratings — published 2011
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.37 — 925,092 ratings — published 1946
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.19 — 885,388 ratings — published 2008
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as understanding)
avg rating 3.97 — 231,415 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 — 119,910 ratings — published 2010
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.18 — 294,116 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 — 483,443 ratings — published 2012
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.17 — 610,337 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.04 — 469,495 ratings — published 1997
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.21 — 490,339 ratings — published 1988
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.21 — 432,849 ratings — published 2003
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.29 — 116,843 ratings — published 2017
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.00 — 62,792 ratings — published -350
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.01 — 56,935 ratings — published -430
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.32 — 101,501 ratings — published 2021
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.12 — 155,092 ratings — published 2021
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.40 — 374,465 ratings — published 2015
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.08 — 146,729 ratings — published 2016
The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.18 — 46,027 ratings — published 2001
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.01 — 124,084 ratings — published 1859
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.02 — 118,895 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 — 248,357 ratings — published 2012
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.39 — 339,300 ratings — published 2012
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 3.77 — 207,623 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 — 594,806 ratings — published 1969
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.34 — 33,789 ratings — published 2003
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.29 — 53,682 ratings — published 1979
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.15 — 469,444 ratings — published 1997
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.10 — 59,350 ratings — published 2012
Sirf Dil Nahi, Samajh Bhi Chahiye (Hindi Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.40 — 10 ratings — published
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,876,934 ratings — published 1590
Purity and Danger (Routledge Classics)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,513 ratings — published 1966
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,258,367 ratings — published 2025
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,479,853 ratings — published 2017
Men Who Hate Women: The Extremism Nobody is Talking About (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.32 — 32,987 ratings — published 2020
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.44 — 18,240 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 — 5,114 ratings — published 2023
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.46 — 880,531 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 — 48,067 ratings — published 2017
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,948,726 ratings — published 2018
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.15 — 181,315 ratings — published 2018
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.46 — 22,980 ratings — published 2013
Chasing Love: Sawyer (Wild Romance Saga, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.37 — 268 ratings — published 2020
The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.35 — 24,500 ratings — published 2017
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.29 — 15,654 ratings — published 1951
The Denial of Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.05 — 16,716 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 — 110,580 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 4.33 — 303,666 ratings — published 2014
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.05 — 86,252 ratings — published 2015
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,400,257 ratings — published 2005
“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.”
― Ender's Game
― Ender's Game
“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
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