596 books
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294 voters
World Books
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as world)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,294,535 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as world)
avg rating 4.04 — 465,127 ratings — published 1997
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as world)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,549,348 ratings — published 2003
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as world)
avg rating 4.22 — 429,156 ratings — published 2003
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 75 times as world)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,928,987 ratings — published 2005
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 — 204,379 ratings — published 2018
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 74 times as world)
avg rating 4.18 — 291,949 ratings — published 2015
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 74 times as world)
avg rating 4.19 — 120,975 ratings — published 2015
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as world)
avg rating 3.75 — 419,532 ratings — published 1958
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as world)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,774,622 ratings — published 2007
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as world)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,504,448 ratings — published 1969
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as world)
avg rating 4.15 — 180,097 ratings — published 2018
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as world)
avg rating 4.08 — 65,100 ratings — published 2012
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as world)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,384,732 ratings — published 1956
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as world)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,126,546 ratings — published 1967
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as world)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,259,199 ratings — published 1947
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as world)
avg rating 3.99 — 895,539 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 — 1,008,080 ratings — published 2010
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as world)
avg rating 4.49 — 825,680 ratings — published 2016
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as world)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,659,241 ratings — published 1988
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as world)
avg rating 4.16 — 50,497 ratings — published 2015
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 40 times as world)
avg rating 4.46 — 102,189 ratings — published 2009
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as world)
avg rating 4.12 — 530,124 ratings — published 1928
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 39 times as world)
avg rating 4.34 — 655,929 ratings — published 2017
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as world)
avg rating 4.31 — 419,610 ratings — published 2013
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as world)
avg rating 4.34 — 187,875 ratings — published 2006
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as world)
avg rating 4.19 — 821,512 ratings — published 2008
Cryptonomicon (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as world)
avg rating 4.23 — 117,715 ratings — published 1999
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as world)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,459,304 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 — 140,924 ratings — published 1992
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as world)
avg rating 4.18 — 498,792 ratings — published 2006
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as world)
avg rating 4.47 — 415,729 ratings — published 2016
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as world)
avg rating 4.16 — 195,602 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 32 times as world)
avg rating 4.16 — 631,484 ratings — published 2012
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 32 times as world)
avg rating 4.35 — 848,946 ratings — published 1978
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as world)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,256 ratings — published 2004
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as world)
avg rating 3.96 — 332,972 ratings — published 1997
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as world)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,127,139 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 — 102,686 ratings — published 2005
The 48 Laws of Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as world)
avg rating 4.08 — 235,158 ratings — published 1999
How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as world)
avg rating 3.94 — 14,437 ratings — published 2022
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as world)
avg rating 4.31 — 735,875 ratings — published 2001
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as world)
avg rating 4.19 — 27,547 ratings — published 2021
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as world)
avg rating 4.11 — 949,165 ratings — published 1878
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as world)
avg rating 4.01 — 904,496 ratings — published 2005
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as world)
avg rating 4.30 — 331,429 ratings — published 1982
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as world)
avg rating 3.94 — 554,046 ratings — published 1985
Good Omens (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as world)
avg rating 4.25 — 834,244 ratings — published 1990
The White Tiger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as world)
avg rating 3.77 — 204,860 ratings — published 2008
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as world)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,116,899 ratings — published 1866
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
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“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.”
― The Merchant of Venice
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