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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,217,246 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.04 — 448,131 ratings — published 1997
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.84 — 374,573 ratings — published 1513
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 38 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.19 — 281,334 ratings — published 2015
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.68 — 191,337 ratings — published 1848
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.97 — 221,655 ratings — published -400
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,165,431 ratings — published -700
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,255 ratings — published 2018
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.95 — 555,939 ratings — published -500
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.37 — 843,262 ratings — published 1946
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,026,953 ratings — published 1601
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.17 — 570,742 ratings — published 2011
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.19 — 112,117 ratings — published 2015
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.13 — 28,812 ratings — published 1978
The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.13 — 44,393 ratings — published 1949
The Power of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.26 — 53,280 ratings — published 1988
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.09 — 60,185 ratings — published 2012
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.03 — 110,593 ratings — published 1886
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.93 — 498,632 ratings — published -800
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.75 — 115,144 ratings — published -1200
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,347 ratings — published 2010
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.29 — 178,636 ratings — published -350
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.01 — 888,919 ratings — published 2005
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.90 — 280,397 ratings — published 2006
Meditations (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.28 — 327,396 ratings — published 180
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.22 — 415,207 ratings — published 2003
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.36 — 198,487 ratings — published 2018
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.00 — 58,038 ratings — published -350
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.39 — 323,173 ratings — published 2012
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.18 — 46,291 ratings — published 1949
A History of Western Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.13 — 41,068 ratings — published 1945
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.03 — 201,983 ratings — published 1320
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.87 — 140,801 ratings — published -19
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.21 — 37,879 ratings — published 2009
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.24 — 36,057 ratings — published 1975
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.07 — 171,361 ratings — published 1883
Chasing Lincoln's Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.84 — 12,219 ratings — published 2009
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.08 — 16,888 ratings — published 1957
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.09 — 86,988 ratings — published -380
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.93 — 74,090 ratings — published 2004
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.19 — 24,815 ratings — published 2021
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,736,447 ratings — published 1960
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.99 — 72,076 ratings — published 400
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.03 — 22,854 ratings — published 1967
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.78 — 242,534 ratings — published 1974
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,286,961 ratings — published 1949
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,341,372 ratings — published 1956
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.53 — 157,458 ratings — published 2020
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.39 — 30,170 ratings — published 2017
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.27 — 93,043 ratings — published 2017
“In trying to justify the humanities, as in trying to live a life, what may turn out to matter most is holding one's nerve.”
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