Best Books That Might Change How You Think

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Animal Farm
Animal Farm 4.01 avg rating — 4,357,376 ratings
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1984
1984 4.20 avg rating — 5,227,544 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed 3.93 avg rating — 73,877 ratings
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Corpalism
Corpalism 3.37 avg rating — 300 ratings
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 3.65 avg rating — 194,446 ratings
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Equating the Equations of Insanity: A Journey from Grief to Victory
Equating the Equations of Insanity: A Journey from Grief to Victory 3.83 avg rating — 185 ratings
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Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance 3.97 avg rating — 13,936 ratings
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Les Misérables
Les Misérables 4.21 avg rating — 830,293 ratings
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The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by: Dan Brown
3.93 avg rating — 2,475,558 ratings
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The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth 4.08 avg rating — 101,262 ratings
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Just Mercy
Just Mercy 4.63 avg rating — 254,542 ratings
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life 4.05 avg rating — 112,361 ratings
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row 4.65 avg rating — 75,678 ratings
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The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power 4.07 avg rating — 4,787 ratings
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War and Peace
War and Peace 4.17 avg rating — 357,026 ratings
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures 4.20 avg rating — 87,607 ratings
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A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities 3.88 avg rating — 996,510 ratings
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NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children
NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children 4.03 avg rating — 26,482 ratings
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory 4.10 avg rating — 101,040 ratings
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Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men 3.89 avg rating — 2,752,343 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 4.04 avg rating — 445,096 ratings
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
by: Dee Brown
4.26 avg rating — 99,689 ratings
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Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health
Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health 3.94 avg rating — 4,624 ratings
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking 3.96 avg rating — 614,745 ratings
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The New Censorship: Inside the Global Battle for Media Freedom (Columbia Journalism Review Books)
The New Censorship: Inside the Global Battle for Media Freedom (Columbia Journalism Review Books) 3.66 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Stumbling on Happiness
Stumbling on Happiness 3.82 avg rating — 63,113 ratings
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 4.52 avg rating — 115,057 ratings
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference 4.01 avg rating — 844,311 ratings
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 4.01 avg rating — 885,876 ratings
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The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos 4.11 avg rating — 20,663 ratings
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The Human Script
The Human Script 3.70 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better
Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better 3.94 avg rating — 2,484 ratings
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The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human
The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human 4.15 avg rating — 10,815 ratings
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Annihilation of Caste
Annihilation of Caste 4.61 avg rating — 8,312 ratings
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It Is Not What It Is: THE REAL (s)PAIN OF EUROPE
It Is Not What It Is: THE REAL (s)PAIN OF EUROPE 3.43 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality 4.13 avg rating — 40,010 ratings
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man 3.87 avg rating — 38,987 ratings
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Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century
Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century 3.99 avg rating — 3,711 ratings
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Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease
Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease 4.17 avg rating — 9,838 ratings
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23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism 3.96 avg rating — 12,349 ratings
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The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America
The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America 3.86 avg rating — 205 ratings
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Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda 4.02 avg rating — 8,500 ratings
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The Rising Sun: The Decline & Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-45
The Rising Sun: The Decline & Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-45 4.30 avg rating — 5,936 ratings
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Can We Talk About Race?: And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation
Can We Talk About Race?: And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation 4.11 avg rating — 496 ratings
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When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God
When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God 3.94 avg rating — 954 ratings
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Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs
Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs 3.87 avg rating — 1,135 ratings
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Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order
Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order 4.03 avg rating — 7,199 ratings
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Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us 4.01 avg rating — 32,461 ratings
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Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain 3.85 avg rating — 8,023 ratings
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Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy
Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy 3.98 avg rating — 5,775 ratings
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Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
by: Dan Fagin
4.09 avg rating — 4,620 ratings
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Blur: How to Know What's True in the Age of Information Overload
Blur: How to Know What's True in the Age of Information Overload 3.70 avg rating — 403 ratings
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Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life 4.13 avg rating — 52,375 ratings
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media 4.24 avg rating — 23,242 ratings
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Climate Peril: The Intelligent Reader's Guide to Understanding the Climate Crisis
Climate Peril: The Intelligent Reader's Guide to Understanding the Climate Crisis 4.47 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World.
Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World. really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 702 ratings
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal 4.08 avg rating — 28,337 ratings
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Future Arctic: Field Notes from a World on the Edge
Future Arctic: Field Notes from a World on the Edge 4.03 avg rating — 65 ratings
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We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change
We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change 4.33 avg rating — 994 ratings
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Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters 4.06 avg rating — 27,646 ratings
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The Ferocious Summer: Adelie Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica
The Ferocious Summer: Adelie Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica 3.73 avg rating — 33 ratings
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The Water Knife
The Water Knife 3.85 avg rating — 27,630 ratings
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If Not Now, When?: Living the Baby Boomer Adventure
If Not Now, When?: Living the Baby Boomer Adventure 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students
The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students 4.25 avg rating — 2,214 ratings
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The People's Republic of Chemicals
The People's Republic of Chemicals 4.09 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do
Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do 3.92 avg rating — 6,021 ratings
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Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare: An Ecologist's Perspective
Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare: An Ecologist's Perspective 4.19 avg rating — 267 ratings
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Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1) 4.06 avg rating — 149,668 ratings
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Money Logging: On the Trail of the Asian Timber Mafia
Money Logging: On the Trail of the Asian Timber Mafia 4.55 avg rating — 107 ratings
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How To Find The Right Person To Date: A Step By Step Guide To Finding The Right Partner And Detecting An Abuser
How To Find The Right Person To Date: A Step By Step Guide To Finding The Right Partner And Detecting An Abuser liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
Outliers: The Story of Success 4.19 avg rating — 845,892 ratings
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals 4.19 avg rating — 208,906 ratings
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The Bankers: How The Banks Ruined The Irish Economy
The Bankers: How The Banks Ruined The Irish Economy 3.64 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Throw Out Fifty Things: Clear the Clutter, Find Your Life
Throw Out Fifty Things: Clear the Clutter, Find Your Life 3.48 avg rating — 3,072 ratings
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Meltdown in Tibet: China's Reckless Destruction of Ecosystems from the Highlands of Tibet to the Deltas of Asia
Meltdown in Tibet: China's Reckless Destruction of Ecosystems from the Highlands of Tibet to the Deltas of Asia 4.01 avg rating — 73 ratings
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The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos
The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos 3.83 avg rating — 156 ratings
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Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions
Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions 3.75 avg rating — 268 ratings
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 3.75 avg rating — 206,251 ratings
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The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security
The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security 3.77 avg rating — 7,162 ratings
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Breaking Free: True Stories of Girls Who Escaped Modern Slavery
Breaking Free: True Stories of Girls Who Escaped Modern Slavery
by: Abby Sher
3.88 avg rating — 342 ratings
81.
Born on a Blue Day
Born on a Blue Day 3.84 avg rating — 23,817 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 4.13 avg rating — 787,158 ratings
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The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1) 4.03 avg rating — 1,594,366 ratings
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Sophie’s Choice
Sophie’s Choice 4.17 avg rating — 93,616 ratings
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The Sociopath Next Door
The Sociopath Next Door 3.77 avg rating — 38,198 ratings
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Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior (A Harvest Book)
Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior (A Harvest Book) 4.15 avg rating — 9,826 ratings