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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as world)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,281,941 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as world)
avg rating 4.04 — 462,093 ratings — published 1997
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as world)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,527,994 ratings — published 2003
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as world)
avg rating 4.22 — 426,531 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 — 119,430 ratings — published 2015
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as world)
avg rating 4.35 — 203,420 ratings — published 2018
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 74 times as world)
avg rating 4.18 — 290,261 ratings — published 2015
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 74 times as world)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,910,204 ratings — published 2005
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as world)
avg rating 3.75 — 416,905 ratings — published 1958
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as world)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,759,774 ratings — published 2007
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as world)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,495,994 ratings — published 1969
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as world)
avg rating 4.15 — 179,194 ratings — published 2018
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as world)
avg rating 4.09 — 64,313 ratings — published 2012
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as world)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,376,791 ratings — published 1956
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as world)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,118,346 ratings — published 1967
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as world)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,233,598 ratings — published 1947
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as world)
avg rating 3.99 — 892,046 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 — 1,004,109 ratings — published 2010
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as world)
avg rating 4.49 — 818,384 ratings — published 2016
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as world)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,625,972 ratings — published 1988
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as world)
avg rating 4.17 — 49,677 ratings — published 2015
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as world)
avg rating 4.31 — 417,052 ratings — published 2013
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 40 times as world)
avg rating 4.46 — 101,235 ratings — published 2009
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as world)
avg rating 4.11 — 525,744 ratings — published 1928
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 39 times as world)
avg rating 4.34 — 643,254 ratings — published 2017
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as world)
avg rating 4.34 — 186,134 ratings — published 2006
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as world)
avg rating 4.19 — 817,818 ratings — published 2008
Cryptonomicon (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as world)
avg rating 4.23 — 117,369 ratings — published 1999
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as world)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,436,742 ratings — published 1942
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 — 140,188 ratings — published 1992
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as world)
avg rating 4.18 — 497,388 ratings — published 2006
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as world)
avg rating 4.47 — 411,022 ratings — published 2016
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as world)
avg rating 4.16 — 195,068 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 31 times as world)
avg rating 4.16 — 628,340 ratings — published 2012
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 31 times as world)
avg rating 4.35 — 843,241 ratings — published 1978
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as world)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,120,794 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 — 102,626 ratings — published 2005
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as world)
avg rating 3.96 — 329,867 ratings — published 1997
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as world)
avg rating 4.30 — 326,214 ratings — published 1982
The 48 Laws of Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as world)
avg rating 4.08 — 231,599 ratings — published 1999
How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as world)
avg rating 3.95 — 14,236 ratings — published 2022
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as world)
avg rating 4.31 — 729,739 ratings — published 2001
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as world)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,026 ratings — published 2004
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as world)
avg rating 4.19 — 27,047 ratings — published 2021
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as world)
avg rating 4.10 — 942,546 ratings — published 1878
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as world)
avg rating 3.94 — 551,271 ratings — published 1985
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as world)
avg rating 4.01 — 901,792 ratings — published 2005
Good Omens (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as world)
avg rating 4.25 — 830,536 ratings — published 1990
The White Tiger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as world)
avg rating 3.77 — 204,039 ratings — published 2008
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as world)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,103,378 ratings — published 1866
“It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.”
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“It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.”
― Siddhartha
― Siddhartha
