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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as world)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,319,441 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as world)
avg rating 4.04 — 470,757 ratings — published 1997
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as world)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,594,329 ratings — published 2003
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as world)
avg rating 4.21 — 433,922 ratings — published 2003
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 76 times as world)
avg rating 4.19 — 123,798 ratings — published 2015
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 76 times as world)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,965,905 ratings — published 2005
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as world)
avg rating 4.35 — 206,159 ratings — published 2018
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 74 times as world)
avg rating 4.18 — 294,784 ratings — published 2015
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 69 times as world)
avg rating 3.75 — 424,620 ratings — published 1958
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as world)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,806,849 ratings — published 2007
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as world)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,521,487 ratings — published 1969
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as world)
avg rating 4.15 — 181,683 ratings — published 2018
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as world)
avg rating 4.08 — 66,662 ratings — published 2012
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as world)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,143,051 ratings — published 1967
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as world)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,398,481 ratings — published 1956
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as world)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,312,257 ratings — published 1947
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as world)
avg rating 3.99 — 902,347 ratings — published 1961
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as world)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,015,453 ratings — published 2010
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as world)
avg rating 4.48 — 841,712 ratings — published 2016
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as world)
avg rating 4.34 — 191,288 ratings — published 2006
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as world)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,727,584 ratings — published 1988
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as world)
avg rating 4.16 — 51,804 ratings — published 2015
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as world)
avg rating 4.31 — 424,518 ratings — published 2013
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 39 times as world)
avg rating 4.34 — 682,121 ratings — published 2017
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 39 times as world)
avg rating 4.46 — 104,373 ratings — published 2009
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as world)
avg rating 4.12 — 537,703 ratings — published 1928
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as world)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,509,468 ratings — published 1942
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as world)
avg rating 4.19 — 828,489 ratings — published 2008
Cryptonomicon (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as world)
avg rating 4.23 — 118,360 ratings — published 1999
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as world)
avg rating 4.47 — 425,240 ratings — published 2016
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as world)
avg rating 4.44 — 142,367 ratings — published 1992
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as world)
avg rating 4.18 — 501,338 ratings — published 2006
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as world)
avg rating 4.16 — 196,557 ratings — published 2007
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as world)
avg rating 4.16 — 637,273 ratings — published 2012
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 33 times as world)
avg rating 4.35 — 859,401 ratings — published 1978
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as world)
avg rating 3.96 — 339,466 ratings — published 1997
The 48 Laws of Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as world)
avg rating 4.07 — 242,030 ratings — published 1999
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as world)
avg rating 4.19 — 28,502 ratings — published 2021
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as world)
avg rating 4.31 — 747,588 ratings — published 2001
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as world)
avg rating 4.11 — 962,605 ratings — published 1878
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as world)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,551 ratings — published 2004
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as world)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,140,487 ratings — published 1997
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as world)
avg rating 3.69 — 102,780 ratings — published 2005
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as world)
avg rating 4.31 — 343,651 ratings — published 1982
How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as world)
avg rating 3.94 — 14,738 ratings — published 2022
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as world)
avg rating 3.94 — 560,465 ratings — published 1985
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as world)
avg rating 4.01 — 909,614 ratings — published 2005
A Farewell to Arms (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as world)
avg rating 3.82 — 365,460 ratings — published 1929
Good Omens (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as world)
avg rating 4.25 — 843,462 ratings — published 1990
The White Tiger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as world)
avg rating 3.77 — 206,249 ratings — published 2008
“I am a citizen of the world.”
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“Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.”
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