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1984
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The Ultimate Human Secrets - The Hidden Power in our Mysterious Unconscious Knowledge
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Ramzi Najjar (Goodreads Author)
4.62 avg rating — 164 ratings
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The You Beyond You: The Knowledge of the Willing
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Ramzi Najjar (Goodreads Author)
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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Siddhartha
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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4.34 avg rating — 1,217,246 ratings
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The Echoes of Enigma: Illuminating Life's Profound Akashic Mysteries
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Ramzi Najjar (Goodreads Author)
4.83 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The Little Prince
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4.33 avg rating — 2,400,277 ratings
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Do You QuantumThink?: New Thinking That Will Rock Your World
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4.23 avg rating — 139 ratings
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Night
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4.38 avg rating — 1,341,376 ratings
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The Alchemist
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Paulo Coelho (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 3,465,925 ratings
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The Selfish Gene
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Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 189,965 ratings
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EXSTATICA Self-Help Essentials: Unleash the Transformative Sparkles of the Renaissance Mantegna Tarot
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Frank (Goodreads Author)
4.62 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Ultimate Human Secrets: The Hidden Power in Our Mysterious Unconscious Knowledge
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4.62 avg rating — 164 ratings
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Cosmos
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4.40 avg rating — 156,485 ratings
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The Trial
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3.94 avg rating — 380,995 ratings
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Fahrenheit 451
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3.97 avg rating — 2,748,548 ratings
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The Lord of the Rings
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4.54 avg rating — 720,207 ratings
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The Book of Disquiet
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4.40 avg rating — 36,278 ratings
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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4.29 avg rating — 52,420 ratings
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Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1
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4.29 avg rating — 14,202 ratings
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The Prince
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3.84 avg rating — 374,575 ratings
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Lord of the Flies
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3.70 avg rating — 3,138,142 ratings
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The Iliad
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3.93 avg rating — 498,632 ratings
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Sophie’s World
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3.97 avg rating — 277,101 ratings
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The Holy Bible: King James Version
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4.44 avg rating — 310,965 ratings
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
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4.24 avg rating — 23,489 ratings
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The Odyssey
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3.83 avg rating — 1,165,436 ratings
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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4.29 avg rating — 78,946 ratings
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Man's Search for Meaning
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4.37 avg rating — 843,269 ratings
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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4.01 avg rating — 888,921 ratings
score: 883,
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To the Lighthouse
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3.81 avg rating — 209,353 ratings
score: 863,
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,089,979 ratings
score: 861,
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Animal Farm / 1984
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4.30 avg rating — 212,534 ratings
score: 854,
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Steppenwolf
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4.13 avg rating — 209,048 ratings
score: 847,
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How the Mind Works
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Steven Pinker (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 20,930 ratings
score: 829,
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A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
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4.08 avg rating — 261,329 ratings
score: 818,
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The Society of the Spectacle
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4.03 avg rating — 22,854 ratings
score: 813,
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Brave New World
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3.88 avg rating — 1,262,069 ratings
score: 798,
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The Real Crisis
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4.59 avg rating — 34 ratings
score: 780,
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
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3.78 avg rating — 242,534 ratings
score: 764,
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Letters to a Young Poet
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4.28 avg rating — 116,086 ratings
score: 750,
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The Republic
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3.97 avg rating — 221,654 ratings
score: 748,
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Meditations
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4.28 avg rating — 327,396 ratings
score: 741,
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The Weaver of Odds (Vivian Amberville, #1)
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Louise Blackwick (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 76 ratings
score: 698,
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
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3.69 avg rating — 102,386 ratings
score: 691,
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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3.88 avg rating — 34,514 ratings
score: 687,
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The Human Condition
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4.20 avg rating — 9,281 ratings
score: 666,
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The Man Without Qualities
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4.19 avg rating — 7,234 ratings
score: 666,
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The Art of Happiness
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4.17 avg rating — 123,606 ratings
score: 663,
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Catch-22
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3.99 avg rating — 876,938 ratings
score: 652,
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Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
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4.16 avg rating — 10,035 ratings
score: 649,
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Dune (Dune #1)
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4.29 avg rating — 1,585,738 ratings
score: 645,
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Simulacra and Simulation
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16,147 ratings
score: 640,
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
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4.30 avg rating — 572,314 ratings
score: 635,
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
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Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 41,302 ratings
score: 622,
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Fully Alive: Using the Lessons of the Amazon to Live Your Mission in Business and Life
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Tyler Gage (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 136 ratings
score: 600,
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
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4.16 avg rating — 27,394 ratings
score: 585,
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The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
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4.22 avg rating — 64,097 ratings
score: 569,
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Beyond Good and Evil
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4.03 avg rating — 110,593 ratings
score: 569,
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Gargantua and Pantagruel
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3.65 avg rating — 16,068 ratings
score: 568,
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Being and Time
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4.05 avg rating — 27,263 ratings
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Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
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4.19 avg rating — 78,164 ratings
score: 558,
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.19 avg rating — 797,990 ratings
score: 556,
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Orlando
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3.87 avg rating — 111,102 ratings
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Columbine
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Dave Cullen (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 100,505 ratings
score: 540,
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Nausea
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3.93 avg rating — 135,687 ratings
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The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 1,599,924 ratings
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Manage My Emotions: What I Wish I'd Learned in School about Anger, Fear and Love
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Kenneth J. Martz (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 96 ratings
score: 499,
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Faust, First Part
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3.83 avg rating — 84,592 ratings
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No Logo
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3.89 avg rating — 32,523 ratings
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Death on the Installment Plan
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4.21 avg rating — 9,113 ratings
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The Woman in the Dunes
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3.88 avg rating — 38,044 ratings
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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
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3.93 avg rating — 9,737 ratings
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Stranger in a Strange Land
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3.92 avg rating — 324,256 ratings
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Foundation (Foundation, #1)
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Get Bail, Leave Jail: America’s Guide to Hiring a Bondsman, Navigating Bail Bonds, and Getting out of Custody before Trial
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4.75 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Book of Chaos (Vivian Amberville, #2)
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Louise Blackwick (Goodreads Author)
4.80 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination
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MindHub: Personality Profiler
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4.34 avg rating — 74 ratings
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The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
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Aimee Bender (Goodreads Author)
3.25 avg rating — 68,315 ratings
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I Is God: The Journey Begins
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4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Tell It to the World: International Justice and the Secret Campaign to Hide Mass Murder in Kosovo
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Eliott Behar (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 171 ratings
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Journey to the End of the Night
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Father Forgive Us, for We Know Not What We Do
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4.08 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Dialogues
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4.39 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable
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Near-Death Experiences; True stories of Near-Death Experiences told by real people. True stories of those who went to Heaven.
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Steph Young (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 113 ratings
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The Handmaid's Tale
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 2,349,339 ratings
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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The God Delusion
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Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 280,397 ratings
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A Woman Called God: A Picture Book For Grown Ups
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Swipe to Unlock: The Primer on Technology and Business Strategy
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Parth Detroja (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 3,350 ratings
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THE BROKEN RULES OF ENGAGEMENT
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The Two Week Traveller
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Matthew Lightfoot (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 98 ratings
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The Merchant of Stories: A Creative Entrepreneur's Journey
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Dipa Sanatani (Goodreads Author)
4.59 avg rating — 128 ratings
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The Kitab-i-Aqdas: The Most Holy Book
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