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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 318 times as society)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,062,287 ratings — published 2011
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 232 times as society)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,716,141 ratings — published 1949
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 212 times as society)
avg rating 4.04 — 417,301 ratings — published 1997
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 206 times as society)
avg rating 4.20 — 255,900 ratings — published 2015
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 187 times as society)
avg rating 4.17 — 160,707 ratings — published 2018
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 180 times as society)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,971,771 ratings — published 1945
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 167 times as society)
avg rating 4.36 — 186,119 ratings — published 2018
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as society)
avg rating 3.93 — 71,879 ratings — published 2004
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 150 times as society)
avg rating 4.01 — 858,548 ratings — published 2005
Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as society)
avg rating 4.21 — 57,624 ratings — published 2012
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as society)
avg rating 4.00 — 820,401 ratings — published 2002
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as society)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,886,985 ratings — published 1932
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 130 times as society)
avg rating 4.35 — 124,947 ratings — published 2019
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as society)
avg rating 4.08 — 51,094 ratings — published 2012
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as society)
avg rating 4.22 — 38,071 ratings — published 2014
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as society)
avg rating 4.47 — 100,290 ratings — published 2016
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as society)
avg rating 4.52 — 109,655 ratings — published 2010
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as society)
avg rating 4.19 — 799,210 ratings — published 2008
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as society)
avg rating 4.08 — 442,294 ratings — published 2012
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as society)
avg rating 4.03 — 26,885 ratings — published 2018
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as society)
avg rating 4.53 — 142,109 ratings — published 2020
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 99 times as society)
avg rating 4.24 — 45,124 ratings — published 2018
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as society)
avg rating 4.15 — 31,726 ratings — published 1985
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as society)
avg rating 4.27 — 48,519 ratings — published 2007
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 94 times as society)
avg rating 4.17 — 165,381 ratings — published 2018
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as society)
avg rating 4.16 — 28,553 ratings — published 2010
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 93 times as society)
avg rating 4.40 — 298,203 ratings — published 2012
Humankind: A Hopeful History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as society)
avg rating 4.32 — 64,014 ratings — published 2019
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as society)
avg rating 3.86 — 416,924 ratings — published 2016
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as society)
avg rating 4.40 — 337,299 ratings — published 2015
Capital in the Twenty First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as society)
avg rating 4.06 — 32,393 ratings — published 2013
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as society)
avg rating 4.24 — 21,177 ratings — published 1988
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as society)
avg rating 4.20 — 30,308 ratings — published 2018
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as society)
avg rating 4.38 — 96,512 ratings — published 2017
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as society)
avg rating 4.06 — 11,530 ratings — published 2018
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as society)
avg rating 4.49 — 105,750 ratings — published 2018
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as society)
avg rating 4.37 — 115,710 ratings — published 2019
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as society)
avg rating 4.00 — 304,140 ratings — published 2019
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 75 times as society)
avg rating 3.65 — 192,219 ratings — published 2001
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as society)
avg rating 3.66 — 169,644 ratings — published 1848
No Logo (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as society)
avg rating 3.88 — 31,599 ratings — published 2000
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
by (shelved 73 times as society)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,092,893 ratings — published 1985
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 71 times as society)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,471,628 ratings — published 1953
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as society)
avg rating 4.16 — 26,114 ratings — published 2014
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as society)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,948,672 ratings — published 1954
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as society)
avg rating 4.19 — 64,462 ratings — published 2017
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as society)
avg rating 4.21 — 22,751 ratings — published 2011
The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as society)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,948 ratings — published 2020
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as society)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,245,531 ratings — published 1960
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as society)
avg rating 3.96 — 113,279 ratings — published 2007
“There are people who are generic. They make generic responses and they expect generic answers. They live inside a box and they think people who don't fit into their box are weird. But I'll tell you what, generic people are the weird people. They are like genetically-manipulated plants growing inside a laboratory, like indistinguishable faces, like droids. Like ignorance.”
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“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?”
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