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Best Books To Frame Thinking
Books from various genres that help shape and contour how to conceive reality in the 21st Century.
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Long Walk to Freedom
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4.36 avg rating — 92,869 ratings
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Language in Thought and Action
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4.22 avg rating — 1,319 ratings
score: 228,
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Therapy from the Quran and Hadith
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4.45 avg rating — 33 ratings
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The Giver (The Giver, #1)
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Lois Lowry (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 2,751,586 ratings
score: 225,
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| 305 |
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The Story of My Life
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4.08 avg rating — 150,410 ratings
score: 223,
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Status of Women in Islam
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4.48 avg rating — 86 ratings
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| 307 |
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Allah: A Christian Response
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3.92 avg rating — 510 ratings
score: 218,
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| 308 |
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Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty
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3.98 avg rating — 660 ratings
score: 217,
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| 308 |
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Muhammad the Messenger of Guidance: A Concise Introduction to His Life and Islam
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4.35 avg rating — 20 ratings
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| 310 |
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Nausea
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3.93 avg rating — 135,691 ratings
score: 214,
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| 311 |
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Al-Muwatta of Imam Malik - Arabic English
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4.56 avg rating — 521 ratings
score: 213,
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| 312 |
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull
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Richard Bach (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 268,686 ratings
score: 211,
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| 312 |
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How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Destruction of the Syrian Arab Kingdom in 1920 and the Rise of Anti-Liberal Islamism
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4.26 avg rating — 235 ratings
score: 211,
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| 314 |
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God in the Qur'an
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3.80 avg rating — 212 ratings
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The Heart of Islam: Enduring Values for Humanity
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4.31 avg rating — 1,904 ratings
score: 208,
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The Sealed Nectar | Biography of Prophet Muhammad
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4.61 avg rating — 23,246 ratings
score: 208,
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| 317 |
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The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
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George Friedman (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 11,058 ratings
score: 206,
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I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
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Malala Yousafzai (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 614,747 ratings
score: 206,
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Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time
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4.09 avg rating — 3,417 ratings
score: 205,
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The Divine Reality: God, Islam and the Mirage of Atheism
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4.48 avg rating — 934 ratings
score: 204,
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Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World
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4.09 avg rating — 1,991 ratings
score: 202,
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The Bliss Experiment: 28 Days to Personal Transformation
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Sean Meshorer (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 78 ratings
score: 200,
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God on Trial
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Sabri Bebawi (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Change Book: Fifty Models to Explain How Things Happen
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3.42 avg rating — 651 ratings
score: 200,
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Relax, It's Just God: How and Why to Talk to Your Kids About Religion When You're Not Religious
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Wendy Thomas Russell (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 394 ratings
score: 200,
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| 322 |
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Stony Kill
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Marie White Small (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 58 ratings
score: 200,
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| 322 |
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Rationality: From AI to Zombies
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Eliezer Yudkowsky (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 1,744 ratings
score: 200,
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| 322 |
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The Explorer's Mindset: Unlock Health Happiness and Success the Fun Way
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Francis Shenstone (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 60 ratings
score: 200,
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Epoca îndreptățirii
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Andrei Cristian (Goodreads Author)
4.65 avg rating — 17 ratings
score: 200,
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| 322 |
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Optimal Happiness: The Fastest & Surest Way to Reach Your Happiest Potential
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Roman Russo (Goodreads Author)
4.52 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Separate Things: A Memoir
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Ashley Marie Berry (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 88 ratings
score: 200,
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The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture
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3.96 avg rating — 1,820 ratings
score: 199,
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I Is God: The Journey Begins
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4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
score: 199,
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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
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4.55 avg rating — 9,939 ratings
score: 199,
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A-Ma Alchemy of Love (AoL Mindfulness, #1)
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Nataša Pantović (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 57 ratings
score: 198,
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WHY GOD SLEEPS WHEN WE WAKE-UP
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Ramzi Najjar (Goodreads Author)
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score: 198,
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| 337 |
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Mother Teresa: In My Own Words
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4.32 avg rating — 1,422 ratings
score: 197,
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Tree of Life with Spiritual Poetry (AoL Mindfulness, #9)
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Nataša Pantović (Goodreads Author)
4.63 avg rating — 30 ratings
score: 197,
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| 337 |
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Don't Label Me: An Incredible Conversation for Divided Times
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Irshad Manji (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 636 ratings
score: 197,
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| 340 |
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The Pursuit of Loneliness: American Culture at the Breaking Point
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4.08 avg rating — 280 ratings
score: 196,
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ACT Made Simple: An Easy-to-Read Primer on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
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4.43 avg rating — 1,938 ratings
score: 196,
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The Science of Fear: Why We Fear the Things We Shouldn't--and Put Ourselves in Greater Danger
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3.96 avg rating — 5,719 ratings
score: 196,
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Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence
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4.17 avg rating — 6,699 ratings
score: 196,
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Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives
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4.17 avg rating — 79,408 ratings
score: 196,
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The Strange One
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Bernie Morris (Goodreads Author)
4.57 avg rating — 21 ratings
score: 196,
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Conspiracy U: A Case Study
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Scott A. Shay (Goodreads Author)
4.43 avg rating — 30 ratings
score: 196,
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Perfect Nothing (Mark Miller's One, #7)
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4.83 avg rating — 23 ratings
score: 195,
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The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths
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3.93 avg rating — 7,628 ratings
score: 195,
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The Truth-Seeker’s Handbook: A Science-Based Guide
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Gleb Tsipursky (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 77 ratings
score: 195,
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Stories Of The Prophets
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4.50 avg rating — 6,494 ratings
score: 195,
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Snake in the Water (Mark Miller's One, #6)
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George Michael Loughmueller (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
score: 194,
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Ideology: An Introduction
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4.06 avg rating — 698 ratings
score: 194,
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Race And Culture
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4.32 avg rating — 946 ratings
score: 194,
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Enlightened in the 21st Century
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4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Are We Muslims?
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3.92 avg rating — 550 ratings
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Learning to Kiss in the Snow
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D.B. Tarpley (Goodreads Author)
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score: 192,
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Cybernetics: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 745 ratings
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Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth
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4.20 avg rating — 39,653 ratings
score: 191,
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The Revolution: A Manifesto
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4.13 avg rating — 7,753 ratings
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Superstoe
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4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Watchman's Rattle: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction
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Rebecca D. Costa (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 574 ratings
score: 190,
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| 361 |
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Politixworks
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Chuck U. Farlie (Goodreads Author)
4.62 avg rating — 16 ratings
score: 190,
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El economista camuflado. La economía de las pequeñas cosas
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Tim Harford (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 29,205 ratings
score: 190,
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Mindful Being (AoL Mindfulness, #4)
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Nataša Pantović (Goodreads Author)
4.71 avg rating — 48 ratings
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
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Margalit Fox (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 3,659 ratings
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Dating: I Think We've Missed The Point
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Conscious Parenting: Mindful Living Course (AoL Mindfulness #5)
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Nataša Pantović (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Chanting Mantras with Best Chords (AoL Mindfulness, #6)
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Nataša Pantović (Goodreads Author)
4.67 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Maxims
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4.03 avg rating — 4,342 ratings
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Orthodoxy
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4.19 avg rating — 41,382 ratings
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Unclog Your Happiness; A Practical Guide to Living Blissfully
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David J. Ring III (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Fear: A Cultural History
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3.48 avg rating — 207 ratings
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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
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Nick Bostrom (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 20,554 ratings
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Intellectuals and Society
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4.29 avg rating — 3,954 ratings
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Confucius Speaks: Words to Live By
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4.13 avg rating — 98 ratings
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The Social Conquest of Earth
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4.02 avg rating — 4,299 ratings
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The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
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David Epstein (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 16,682 ratings
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Dark Around the Edges
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4.82 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Profiles in Courage
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3.92 avg rating — 14,369 ratings
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A Room of One’s Own
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The Hidden Connections: A Science for Sustainable Living
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3.98 avg rating — 728 ratings
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Breaking Free: True Stories of Girls Who Escaped Modern Slavery
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Abby Sher (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 342 ratings
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Thinking In Systems: A Primer
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4.19 avg rating — 21,151 ratings
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
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3.99 avg rating — 63,228 ratings
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What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
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3.93 avg rating — 13,795 ratings
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Home: A Short History of an Idea
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3.94 avg rating — 1,663 ratings
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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
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4.37 avg rating — 218,456 ratings
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The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
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3.81 avg rating — 5,768 ratings
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Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet
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4.19 avg rating — 7,087 ratings
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Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980
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3.85 avg rating — 699 ratings
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I Rule World (Balu Baldauf #1)
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4.69 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Power (The Secret, #2)
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4.08 avg rating — 32,041 ratings
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Islam and the Destiny of Man
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4.40 avg rating — 1,221 ratings
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Everything Must Change
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3.78 avg rating — 1,835 ratings
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Antonio's Will
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Yasmin Tirado-Chiodini (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Why Does E=mc²?
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4.05 avg rating — 10,248 ratings
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The Hope Handbook for Couples: The Search for Personal Growth
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Germany Kent (Goodreads Author)
4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Kristin Lavransdatter
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4.31 avg rating — 14,044 ratings
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Clean Energy Common Sense: An American Call to Action on Global Climate Change
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3.67 avg rating — 42 ratings
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The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
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Excellent. I've read all of the top twenty five save the exact Chomsky titles (though I've read plenty of his work, and his key points tend to be stable), "Green Illusions," and "Hot Flat and Crowded" -- though I confess that I started the book, but never finished. Not sure why...
Great list! Thank you, Charles, for starting it and everyone else for building it up. I'm tempted to put every one of 'em on my to-read list, except for the mere half dozen or so I've read.
Leo wrote: "Excellent. I've read all of the top twenty five save the exact Chomsky titles (though I've read plenty of his work, and his key points tend to be stable), "Green Illusions," and "Hot Flat and Crowd..."So what would it look like for these top titles to actually shape the thinking of leaders?
Lacewing wrote: "Great list! Thank you, Charles, for starting it and everyone else for building it up. I'm tempted to put every one of 'em on my to-read list, except for the mere half dozen or so I've read."You are welcome! How are you coming on the reading?
Maybe add Nassim Taleb's Black Swan as a complement to the Structure of Scientific Revolutions?
Fantastic list. I've added a few of these to my To Read list.
Awesome list!! Thanks for creating it. Definitely reading some of these for my 2016 reading challenge :)
Too much Pinker, but this is a f*ing good list
Great list! I think I'll contribute a few books to this list too.
Gotta say, this is the best list I've ever seen on the goodreads. Thank you
commenting so I can remember where this list is
Valerie wrote: "This is like, ALL white men"If for some reason you don't want to read European authors, just in the top 100: Jared Diamond, Naomi Klein, Viktor Frankl, Howard Zinn, Daniel Kahneman, Noam Chomsky, Steven Pinker, Sigmund Freud, Christopher Hitchens, Saul Alinsky, Yuval Noah Harari, Franz Kafka, Douglas Hofstadter, Carl Sagan, Thomas Kuhn, Jared Diamond, M. Scott Peck, Dan Ariely, David Graeber, Charles Murray, William Deresiewicz, Steven Levitt, Thomas Friedman, Jonathan Haidt, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Jonathan Safran Foer are Jewish (plus the Bible, obviously), Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Daron Acemoğlu, and Edward Said are also Near Eastern but not Jewish, Malcolm Gladwell, Paulo Freire, and Gustavo Gutierrez are Hispanic, Mohandas Gandhi is Indian, and Martin Luther King, Jr. is African.
It seems like much more of a Judeocentric than a Eurocentric list to me, but I agree that it's totally androcentric.
It is still mostly white men. and one Nazi person (Martin Heidegger)
The list is so race-blind that I am guessing the author probably thought Gandhi and Martin Luther King ,Jr are also white.
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