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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,300,831 ratings — published 2011
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.37 — 913,938 ratings — published 1946
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.19 — 881,117 ratings — published 2008
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as understanding)
avg rating 3.97 — 230,158 ratings — published -400
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.18 — 292,749 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 — 481,509 ratings — published 2012
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.17 — 605,052 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.04 — 466,656 ratings — published 1997
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 487,658 ratings — published 1988
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.22 — 430,457 ratings — published 2003
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.29 — 114,932 ratings — published 2017
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.00 — 62,318 ratings — published -350
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.12 — 153,141 ratings — published 2021
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.40 — 372,861 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 — 119,330 ratings — published 2010
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.08 — 145,732 ratings — published 2016
The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.18 — 45,878 ratings — published 2001
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.03 — 117,714 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 — 247,101 ratings — published 2012
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.39 — 337,440 ratings — published 2012
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 3.77 — 206,864 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 — 591,808 ratings — published 1969
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.34 — 32,820 ratings — published 2003
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.29 — 53,405 ratings — published 1979
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.15 — 465,390 ratings — published 1997
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.10 — 58,975 ratings — published 2012
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,863,821 ratings — published 1590
Purity and Danger (Routledge Classics)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,485 ratings — published 1966
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,213,441 ratings — published 2025
Men Who Hate Women: The Extremism Nobody is Talking About (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.32 — 32,124 ratings — published 2020
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.44 — 18,028 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 — 4,981 ratings — published 2023
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.46 — 859,178 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 — 47,590 ratings — published 2017
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,926,379 ratings — published 2018
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.15 — 180,515 ratings — published 2018
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.46 — 22,732 ratings — published 2013
Chasing Love: Sawyer (Wild Romance Saga, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.38 — 266 ratings — published 2020
The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.35 — 24,292 ratings — published 2017
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.29 — 15,481 ratings — published 1951
The Denial of Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.05 — 16,553 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 — 109,603 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 4.34 — 298,255 ratings — published 2014
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.05 — 85,149 ratings — published 2015
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,390,615 ratings — published 2005
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.01 — 56,671 ratings — published -430
Everything I Know About Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 3.93 — 529,818 ratings — published 2018
Girl in Pieces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 3.93 — 280,033 ratings — published 2016
Archer's Voice (Pelion Lake, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.16 — 701,565 ratings — published 2014
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as understanding)
avg rating 4.32 — 100,711 ratings — published 2021
“Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck.”
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“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
