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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as world)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,268,932 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as world)
avg rating 4.04 — 459,223 ratings — published 1997
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as world)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,505,868 ratings — published 2003
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as world)
avg rating 4.22 — 423,998 ratings — published 2003
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 75 times as world)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,890,270 ratings — published 2005
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as world)
avg rating 4.36 — 202,389 ratings — published 2018
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 73 times as world)
avg rating 4.18 — 288,491 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 71 times as world)
avg rating 4.19 — 117,805 ratings — published 2015
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as world)
avg rating 3.75 — 413,983 ratings — published 1958
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as world)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,743,899 ratings — published 2007
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as world)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,487,788 ratings — published 1969
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as world)
avg rating 4.15 — 178,154 ratings — published 2018
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as world)
avg rating 4.09 — 63,433 ratings — published 2012
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as world)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,368,543 ratings — published 1956
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as world)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,108,182 ratings — published 1967
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as world)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,206,925 ratings — published 1947
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as world)
avg rating 3.99 — 888,592 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 — 1,000,077 ratings — published 2010
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as world)
avg rating 4.49 — 810,742 ratings — published 2016
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as world)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,589,087 ratings — published 1988
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as world)
avg rating 4.31 — 414,126 ratings — published 2013
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as world)
avg rating 4.11 — 520,718 ratings — published 1928
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as world)
avg rating 4.34 — 184,389 ratings — published 2006
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 39 times as world)
avg rating 4.46 — 100,186 ratings — published 2009
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 38 times as world)
avg rating 4.34 — 631,128 ratings — published 2017
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as world)
avg rating 4.17 — 49,052 ratings — published 2015
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as world)
avg rating 4.19 — 813,006 ratings — published 2008
Cryptonomicon (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as world)
avg rating 4.23 — 117,082 ratings — published 1999
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 — 139,402 ratings — published 1992
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as world)
avg rating 4.47 — 405,607 ratings — published 2016
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as world)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,413,519 ratings — published 1942
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as world)
avg rating 4.18 — 495,878 ratings — published 2006
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as world)
avg rating 4.16 — 194,493 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 — 625,260 ratings — published 2012
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 31 times as world)
avg rating 4.35 — 838,127 ratings — published 1978
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as world)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,114,093 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 — 102,563 ratings — published 2005
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as world)
avg rating 3.96 — 326,901 ratings — published 1997
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as world)
avg rating 4.01 — 899,193 ratings — published 2005
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as world)
avg rating 3.94 — 74,796 ratings — published 2004
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as world)
avg rating 4.30 — 321,878 ratings — published 1982
The 48 Laws of Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as world)
avg rating 4.09 — 227,817 ratings — published 1999
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as world)
avg rating 4.10 — 935,455 ratings — published 1878
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as world)
avg rating 3.94 — 548,521 ratings — published 1985
How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as world)
avg rating 3.95 — 14,053 ratings — published 2022
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as world)
avg rating 4.31 — 723,475 ratings — published 2001
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as world)
avg rating 4.25 — 827,043 ratings — published 1990
The White Tiger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as world)
avg rating 3.77 — 203,207 ratings — published 2008
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as world)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,088,753 ratings — published 1866
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as world)
avg rating 4.23 — 148,869 ratings — published 1960
“Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.”
― The Poems of John Donne (Volume 1); Miscellaneous Poems (Songs and Sonnets) Elegies. Epithalamions, or Marriage Songs. Satires. Epigrams. the Progress of the Soul. Notes
― The Poems of John Donne (Volume 1); Miscellaneous Poems (Songs and Sonnets) Elegies. Epithalamions, or Marriage Songs. Satires. Epigrams. the Progress of the Soul. Notes
“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
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