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    * Mind Expanding Books 
        * Table of Contents 
    * Books 
        * Startups and Business 
        * Philosophy And Psychology 
        * Autobiographies and Biographies 
        * History 
        * Science and Medicine 
        * Logic and Problem Solving 
        * Politics 
        * Economics 
        * Gender 
        * Sexuality 
        * Race 
        * Education 
        * Writing 
        * Theater and Film 
        * Shakespeare 
        * Fiction 
            * Classics 
            * Fantasy 
            * Historical Fiction 
            * Humor 
            * Mystery 
            * Science Fiction 
            * Horror 
            * Miscellaneous 
        * Health 
        * Design 
        * Travel 
        * Language 
        * Nature 
        * Art 
        * Credits 
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Books

Startups and Business

Name:   Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
Author: Phil Knight
Rating: 4.46
Year:   2016

Name:
  The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the
  Walt Disney Company
Author: Robert Iger, Joel Lovell
Rating: 4.44
Year:   2019

Name:   Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Author: John Carreyrou
Rating: 4.4
Year:   2018

Name:   The Compound Effect
Author: Darren Hardy
Rating: 4.40
Year:   2010

Name:   Never Split the Difference
Author: Chris Voss
Rating: 4.39
Year:   2016

Name:
  Failing to Succeed: The Story of India's First E-Commerce Company
Author: K. Vaitheeswaran
Rating: 4.39
Year:   2017

Name:   High Output Management
Author: Andy Grove
Rating: 4.38
Year:   1995

Name:   Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success
Author: Napoleon Hill
Rating: 4.38
Year:   2011

Name:
  The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich
  for a Lifetime!
Author: M.J. DeMarco
Rating: 4.28
Year:   2011

Name:
  How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be : The 25
  Principles of Success
Author: Jack Canfield, Janet Switzer
Rating: 4.26
Year:   2007

Name:   The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Author: Michael Lewis
Rating: 4.26
Year:   2015

Name:
  The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies
  Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives
Author: Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
Rating: 4.25
Year:   2020

Name:   The Middle Finger Project
Author: Ash Ambirge
Rating: 4.22
Year:   2020

Name:
  Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the
  Way of True Inspiration
Author: Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace
Rating: 4.21
Year:   2014

Name:   The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership
Author: Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh
Rating: 4.21
Year:   2009

Name:
  The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There
  Are No Easy Answers
Author: Ben Horowitz
Rating: 4.20
Year:   2014

Name:   Think and Grow Rich
Author: Napoleon Hill
Rating: 4.17
Year:   1937

Name:   AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
Author: Kai-Fu Lee
Rating: 4.16
Year:   2018

Name:
  Nail it then Scale it: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Creating and
  Managing Breakthrough
Author: Nathan Furr
Rating: 4.13
Year:   2011

Name:   Outliers: Story of Success
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Rating: 4.11
Year:   2008

Name:
  The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing : A Guide to Move More
  Profitable
Author: Thomas Nagle, John Hogan, Joseph Zale
Rating: 4.09
Year:   2005

Name:   Principles: Life and Work
Author: Ray Dalio
Rating: 4.07
Year:   2017

Name:
  Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
Author: Simon Sinek
Rating: 4.07
Year:   2009

Name:
  Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to
  Educate the World's Children
Author: John Wood
Rating: 4.07
Year:   2006

Name:   Hackers and Painters
Author: Paul Graham
Rating: 4.06
Year:   2004

Name:   How Google Works
Author: Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg
Rating: 4.06
Year:   2014

Name:   Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
Author: Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler
Rating: 4.05
Year:   2002

Name:
  Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap And Others Don't
Author: Jim Collins
Rating: 4.05
Year:   2001

Name:
  The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically
  Successful Businesses
Author: Eric Ries
Rating: 4.04
Year:   2011

Name:
  The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key
  to High Performance and Personal Renewal
Author: Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz
Rating: 4.03
Year:   2005

Name:   The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right
Author: Atul Gawande
Rating: 4.03
Year:   2009

Name:   Where Good Ideas Come From
Author: Steven Johnson
Rating: 4.03
Year:   2010

Name:   Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
Author: Tony Hsieh
Rating: 4.01
Year:   2010

Name:   The Innovator's Dilemma
Author: clayton m. christensen
Rating: 4.00
Year:   1997

Name:   Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change
Author: Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson
Rating: 3.98
Year:   2007

Name:
  The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What
  to Do About It
Author: Michael E. Gerber
Rating: 3.98
Year:   1995

Name:   Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
Author: David Allen
Rating: 3.98
Year:   2001

Name:
  Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune
  Doing Business My Way
Author: Richard Branson
Rating: 3.97
Year:   1998

Name:
  SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why
  Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
Author: Steven D. Litt
Rating: 3.96
Year:   2009

Name:   The Ten Faces of Innovation
Author: Tom Kelley
Rating: 3.96
Year:   2005

Name:
  Rich Dad Poor Dad : What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That
  The Poor And Middle Class Don't
Author: Robert T. Kiyosaki
Rating: 3.95
Year:   1997

Name:   Founders At Work: Stories Of Startups Early Days
Author: Jessica Livingston
Rating: 3.94
Year:   2007

Name:   The Paypal Wars
Author: Eric M. Jackson
Rating: 3.94
Year:   2010

Name:   Lean In : Women, Work and the Will to Lead
Author: Sheryl Sandberg
Rating: 3.94
Year:   2013

Name:   ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever
Author: David Heinemeier Hansson
Rating: 3.93
Year:   2010

Name:   The 22 Immutable Laws Of Branding
Author: Laura Ries and Al Ries
Rating: 3.93
Year:   1998

Name:
  Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of
  Everything
Author: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
Rating: 3.93
Year:   2006

Name:   The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Rating: 3.92
Year:   2002

Name:   The Four Steps to the Epiphany
Author: Steve Blank
Rating: 3.92
Year:   2005

Name:   The Curse of the Mogul
Author: Jonathan A. Knee, Bruce C. Greenwald, Ava Seave
Rating: 3.91
Year:   2009

Name:
  David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling
  Giants
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Rating: 3.90
Year:   2013

Name:   Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto
Author: Adam Werbach
Rating: 3.89
Year:   2009

Name:   The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Rating: 3.88
Year:   2007

Name:   Contagious: Why Things Catch On
Author: Jonah Berger
Rating: 3.88
Year:   2013

Name:
  Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Leading a Great Enterprise through
  Dramatic Change
Author: Louis V Gerstner, Jr
Rating: 3.88
Year:   2003

Name:   Linchpin: Are You Indispensable
Author: Seth Godin
Rating: 3.87
Year:   2010

Name:
  The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You
  Love, and Create a New Future
Author: Chris Guillebeau
Rating: 3.85
Year:   2012

Name:   Too Big to Fail
Author: Andrew Ross Sorkin
Rating: 3.85
Year:   2011

Name:   The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
Author: Barry Shwartz
Rating: 3.84
Year:   2005

Name:
  The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for
  Anyone Starting Anything
Author: Guy Kawasaki
Rating: 3.82
Year:   2004

Name:
  Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of
  Business
Author: Jeff Howe
Rating: 3.82
Year:   2008

Name:
  Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
Author: Clay Shirky
Rating: 3.82
Year:   2010

Name:   Data Driven
Author: D.J. Patil
Rating: 3.80
Year:   2015

Name:   Zero to One
Author: Peter Thiel, Blake Masters
Rating: 3.75
Year:   2014

Name:   One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com
Author: Richard Brandt
Rating: 3.75
Year:   2011

Name:
  Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and
  Think
Author: Kenneth Cukier
Rating: 3.70
Year:   2013

Name:
  The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the
  New Rich
Author: Timothy Ferriss
Rating: 3.61
Year:   2012

Name:
  The Accidental Billionaires : The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of
  Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal
Author: Ben Mezrich
Rating: 3.50
Year:   2009


Philosophy And Psychology

Name:
  The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
Author: Eric Jorgenson
Rating: 4.64
Year:   2020

Name:   Karma Yoga
Author: Swami Vivekanand
Rating: 4.51
Year:   1999

Name:   The Ascent of Humanity
Author: Charles Eisenstein
Rating: 4.43
Year:   2007

Name:   Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
Author: Gregory Boyle
Rating: 4.41
Year:   2010

Name:   The Slight Edge - Secret to a Successful Life
Author: Jeff Olson
Rating: 4.39
Year:   2005

Name:   Education and the Significance of Life
Author: Krishnamurti
Rating: 4.38
Year:   2008

Name:   Passions Within Reason: The Strategic Role of the Emotions
Author: Robert H. Frank
Rating: 4.34
Year:   1989

Name:
  The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the
  Art of Living
Author: Ryan Holiday, Stephan Hanselman
Rating: 4.34
Year:   2016

Name:   Man's Search for Meaning
Author: Viktor E. Frankl
Rating: 4.33
Year:   2006

Name:
  Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break
  Bad Ones
Author: James Clear
Rating: 4.32
Year:   2018

Name:   The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size
Author: Tor Norretranders
Rating: 4.30
Year:   1999

Name:
  Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race
  the World Has Never Seen
Author: Christopher McDougall
Rating: 4.27
Year:   2009

Name:   Prometheus Rising
Author: Robert Anton Wilson
Rating: 4.26
Year:   2010

Name:   The Concise 48 Laws of Power
Author: Robert Greene
Rating: 4.25
Year:   2011

Name:   The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Author: Joseph Campbell
Rating: 4.24
Year:   1972

Name:   The Magic of Thinking Big
Author: David J. Schwartz
Rating: 4.23
Year:   1959

Name:   Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
Author: Shunryu Suzuki, David Chadwick
Rating: 4.23
Year:   

Name:
  The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art,
  Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present
Author: Eric Kandel
Rating: 4.22
Year:   2012

Name:   Meditations
Author: Marcus Aurelius
Rating: 4.21
Year:   

Name:   Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Author: Robert B. Cialdini
Rating: 4.18
Year:   2006

Name:
  The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
Author: Gavin de Becker
Rating: 4.18
Year:   2000

Name:   Gifts of Imperfection
Author: Brene Brown
Rating: 4.18
Year:   

Name:
  Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern
Author: Douglas Hofstadter
Rating: 4.16
Year:   1996

Name:
  The Truth About Everything: An Irreverent History of Philosophy :
  With Illustrations
Author: Matthew Stewart
Rating: 4.15
Year:   1997

Name:   Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Author: Richard Bach
Rating: 4.15
Year:   1977

Name:   How to Win Friends and Influence People
Author: Dale Carnegie
Rating: 4.14
Year:   1998

Name:
  Creative Visualization: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create
  What You Want in Your Life
Author: Shakti Gawain
Rating: 4.13
Year:   2002

Name:   Bulfinch's Mythology
Author: Thomas Bulfinch
Rating: 4.13
Year:   1998

Name:   Ego Is the Enemy
Author: Ryan Holiday
Rating: 4.12
Year:   2016

Name:
  Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your
  Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny!
Author: Anthony Robbins
Rating: 4.11
Year:   1991

Name:   The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Author: Eckhart Tolle
Rating: 4.11
Year:   1997

Name:   Tuesdays with Morrie
Author: Mitch Albom
Rating: 4.11
Year:   1997

Name:   The Way of the Monk
Author: Gaur Gopal Das
Rating: 4.10
Year:   2020

Name:   Predictably Irrational
Author: Dan Ariely
Rating: 4.10
Year:   2008

Name:   Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Author: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Rating: 4.10
Year:   1990

Name:   Thinking, Fast and Slow
Author: Daniel Kahneman
Rating: 4.09
Year:   2011

Name:   Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
Author: William Barrett
Rating: 4.09
Year:   

Name:   Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine
Author: Derren Brown
Rating: 4.08
Year:   2016

Name:
  The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
Author: David Deutsch
Rating: 4.08
Year:   2011

Name:   Metaphors We Live By
Author: George Lakoff, Mark Johnson
Rating: 4.08
Year:   2003

Name:   Grit
Author: Angela Duckworth
Rating: 4.08
Year:   2016

Name:   In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Author: Michael Pollan
Rating: 4.07
Year:   2008

Name:   The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
Author: Steven Pinker
Rating: 4.07
Year:   2003

Name:   The History of Western Philosophy
Author: Bertrand Russell
Rating: 4.06
Year:   2008

Name:   Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
Author: Joshua Greene
Rating: 4.05
Year:   2013

Name:   Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Rating: 4.05
Year:   1883

Name:   The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
Author: Kevin Simler, Robin Hanson
Rating: 4.05
Year:   2017

Name:
  Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Author: Susan Cain
Rating: 4.04
Year:   2012

Name:
  The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand,
  Enhance, and Empower the Mind
Author: Michio Kaku
Rating: 4.04
Year:   2014

Name:   Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized
Author: James Ladyman, Don Ross, et al
Rating: 4.04
Year:   2007

Name:   Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)
Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Rating: 4.04
Year:   2012

Name:   Mindset: The new psychology of success
Author: Carol S. Dweck,Ph.D.
Rating: 4.04
Year:   2006

Name:   The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life And Business
Author: Charles Duhigg
Rating: 4.03
Year:   2012

Name:
  The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying
  Logic
Author: Dan Ariely
Rating: 4.00
Year:   2010

Name:   Outsmarting IQ: The Emerging Science of Learnable Intelligence
Author: David Perkins
Rating: 4.00
Year:   1995

Name:   The Art of War
Author: Sun Tzu
Rating: 3.95
Year:   2005

Name:   Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength
Author: Ron P. Baumeister, John Tierney
Rating: 3.95
Year:   2011

Name:   A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
Author: Daniel H. Pink
Rating: 3.95
Year:   2006

Name:
  Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
Author: Rolf Potts
Rating: 3.92
Year:   2002

Name:
  Supernormal: Science, Yoga, and the Evidence for Extraordinary
  Psychic Abilities
Author: Dean Radin
Rating: 3.91
Year:   2013

Name:   Prisoner's Dilemma
Author: William Poundstone
Rating: 3.91
Year:   1993

Name:
  The Subtle Art Of Not Giving a F@ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to
  Living a Good Life
Author: Mark Manson
Rating: 3.91
Year:   2017

Name:   The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
Author: Steven Pinker
Rating: 3.90
Year:   2007

Name:   Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
Author: Edward O. Wilson
Rating: 3.90
Year:   1999

Name:
  Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in
  Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average
Author: Joseph T. Hallinan
Rating: 3.87
Year:   2009

Name:   You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation
Author: Deborah Tannen
Rating: 3.86
Year:   2007

Name:
  Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western
  Philosophy
Author: Michael Bruce, Steven Barbone
Rating: 3.85
Year:   2011

Name:   What the Dog Saw: and other adventures
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Rating: 3.82
Year:   2009

Name:   Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior
Author: Geoffrey Miller
Rating: 3.82
Year:   2009

Name:
  Games People Play: The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis
Author: Eric Berne.
Rating: 3.81
Year:   1964

Name:
  This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your
  Thinking
Author: John Brockman
Rating: 3.81
Year:   2012

Name:   Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking
Author: Daniel C. Dennett
Rating: 3.80
Year:   2014

Name:   Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Author: Richard Bach
Rating: 3.80
Year:   1970

Name:   Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story
Author: Jim Holt
Rating: 3.77
Year:   2012

Name:   The Social Contract
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Maurice Cranston
Rating: 3.75
Year:   2009

Name:   The Ethical Brain: The Science of Our Moral Dilemmas
Author: Michael S. Gazzaniga
Rating: 3.70
Year:   2006

Name:   Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid
Author: Robert J Sternberg
Rating: 3.68
Year:   2003

Name:
  Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from
  Each Others
Author: Sherry Turkle
Rating: 3.62
Year:   2011

Name:   How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic
Author: Madsen Pirie
Rating: 3.55
Year:   2006

Name:   Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life: Winifred Gallagher
Author: Winifred Gallagher
Rating: 3.54
Year:   2009

Name:   Utilitarianism
Author: Geoffrey Scarre
Rating: 3.50
Year:   1996

Name:   The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life When Robots Rule the Earth
Author: Robin Hanson
Rating: 3.41
Year:   2016

Name:
  The Fine Art of Small Talk: How To Start a Conversation, Keep It
  Going, Build Networking Skills -- and Leave a Positive Impression
Author: Debra Fine
Rating: 3.36
Year:   2005

Name:   Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You: Sam Gosling
Author: Sam Gosling
Rating: 3.33
Year:   2001


Autobiographies and Biographies

Name:   Becoming
Author: Michelle Obama
Rating: 4.53
Year:   2018

Name:
  Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and
  Redemption
Author: Laura Hillenbrand
Rating: 4.39
Year:   2010

Name:   Everything Beautiful in Its Time: Seasons of Love and Loss
Author: Jenna Bush Hager
Rating: 4.38
Year:   2020

Name:   Long Walk to Freedom
Author: Nelson Mandela
Rating: 4.31
Year:   1995

Name:   My Life and My Work
Author: Henry Ford
Rating: 4.29
Year:   1922

Name:
  Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious
  Character
Author: Richard Feynman
Rating: 4.29
Year:   1997

Name:   The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Author: Malcolm X, Alex Haley
Rating: 4.29
Year:   1965

Name:
  The Third Door:The Wild Quest to Uncover How the World's Most
  Successful People Launched Their Careers
Author: Alex banayan
Rating: 4.28
Year:   2018

Name:   Elon Musk: Inventing the Future
Author: Ashlee Vance
Rating: 4.25
Year:   2015

Name:   The Last Lecture
Author: Randy Pausch
Rating: 4.25
Year:   2008

Name:   Freedom in Exile
Author: Dalai Lama XIV
Rating: 4.24
Year:   1991

Name:   Madame Curie: A Biography
Author: Marie Curie
Rating: 4.22
Year:   2001

Name:   Autobiography of a Yogi
Author: Paramahansa Yogananda
Rating: 4.21
Year:   1946

Name:   Wings of Fire
Author: A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Rating: 4.20
Year:   2011

Name:   Man Without Fear
Author: Rajat Gupta
Rating: 4.20
Year:   2019

Name:   The Man Who Knew Infinity : A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
Author: Robert Kanigel
Rating: 4.15
Year:   1991

Name:   An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
Author: Chris Hadfield
Rating: 4.14
Year:   2013

Name:   The Diary of a Young Girl
Author: Anne Frank
Rating: 4.10
Year:   1993

Name:
  The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created
  the Digital Revolution
Author: Walter Isaacson
Rating: 4.10
Year:   2014

Name:   A Sense of the World
Author: Jason Roberts
Rating: 4.10
Year:   2005

Name:   Einstein: His Life and Universe
Author: Walter Isaacson
Rating: 4.09
Year:   2007

Name:   Steve Jobs
Author: Walter Issacson
Rating: 4.09
Year:   2011

Name:   My Experiments with Truth
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
Rating: 4.07
Year:   1993

Name:   The Story of My Life
Author: Helen Keller
Rating: 4.07
Year:   1990

Name:   The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Author: Rebecca Skloot
Rating: 4.05
Year:   2010

Name:   Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography
Author: Richard Branson
Rating: 3.97
Year:   1999

Name:   My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
Author: Nikola Tesla
Rating: 3.96
Year:   2006

Name:
  Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker
Author: Kevin Mitnick
Rating: 3.95
Year:   2011

Name:   An Autobiography: Toward Freedom
Author: Jawaharlal Nehru
Rating: 3.85
Year:   1989

Name:
  iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal
  Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It
Author: Steve Wozniak
Rating: 3.82
Year:   2007


History

Name:   Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Author: Yuval Noah Harari
Rating: 4.42
Year:   2014

Name:   Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Author: Timothy Snyder
Rating: 4.36
Year:   2010

Name:   How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone
Author: Brian McCullough
Rating: 4.36
Year:   2018

Name:   The Discoverers
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
Rating: 4.34
Year:   2012

Name:   Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
Author: Yuval Noah Harari
Rating: 4.27
Year:   2017

Name:
  One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the
  Brink of Nuclear War
Author: Michael Dobbs
Rating: 4.20
Year:   2008

Name:
  The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication
  from Ancient Times to the Internet
Author: David Kahn
Rating: 4.18
Year:   1996

Name:   Blindness
Author: José Saramago
Rating: 4.13
Year:   1995

Name:
  From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to
  the Present
Author: Jacques Barzun
Rating: 4.12
Year:   2001

Name:   The Soul of a New Machine
Author: Tracy Kidder
Rating: 4.12
Year:   1981

Name:
  Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They
  Reveal About the Future
Author: Ian Morris
Rating: 4.09
Year:   2010

Name:
  The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
Author: Robert Jay Lifton
Rating: 4.07
Year:   1986

Name:
  God Created The Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs that
  Changed History
Author: Stephen Hawking
Rating: 4.06
Year:   

Name:
  Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of
  India during World War II
Author: Madhusree Mukerjee
Rating: 4.05
Year:   2010

Name:   El Tiempo Entre Costuras
Author: María Dueñas
Rating: 4.04
Year:   2009

Name:   Guns, Germs, And Steel : The Fates Of Human Societies
Author: Jared M. Diamond
Rating: 4.00
Year:   2005

Name:   Discovery of India
Author: Jawaharlal Nehru
Rating: 3.98
Year:   1946

Name:   The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (P.S.)
Author: Matt Ridley
Rating: 3.98
Year:   2010

Name:
  Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime
  Underground
Author: Kevin Poulson
Rating: 3.96
Year:   2011

Name:
  The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and
  How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
Author: Steven Johnson
Rating: 3.91
Year:   2006

Name:   The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
Author: Lawrence James
Rating: 3.89
Year:   1997

Name:   The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
Author: Tim Wu
Rating: 3.89
Year:   2010

Name:   Spycraft
Author: Robert Wallace, H. Keith Melton, Henry R. Schlesinger
Rating: 3.81
Year:   1987

Name:   Civilization: The West and the Rest: Niall Ferguson
Author: Niall Ferguson
Rating: 3.78
Year:   2011

Name:   The UNIX-HATERS Handbook
Author: Simson Garfinkel, Daniel Weise, Steven Strassmann
Rating: 3.78
Year:   1994

Name:
  The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming
  Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
Author: Robert D. Kaplan
Rating: 3.68
Year:   2012

Name:   The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Author: Thomas L. Friedman
Rating: 3.66
Year:   2006


Science and Medicine

Name:   Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Author: Robert M. Sapolsky
Rating: 4.42
Year:   2017

Name:   Asimov's New Guide to Science
Author: Isaac Asimov
Rating: 4.36
Year:   1985

Name:
  Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why
  Things Are Better Than You Think
Author: Hans Rosling
Rating: 4.36
Year:   2018

Name:   The Gene: An Intimate History
Author: Siddhartha Mukherjee
Rating: 4.35
Year:   2016

Name:   Origins of Form: The Shape of Natural and Man-Made Things
Author: Christopher Williams
Rating: 4.31
Year:   2013

Name:   The Body: A Guide for Occupants
Author: Bill Bryson
Rating: 4.31
Year:   2019

Name:   Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Author: Douglas R. Hofstadter
Rating: 4.30
Year:   1979

Name:   The Little Schemer
Author:
  Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen, Duane Bibby, Gerald J.
  Sussman
Rating: 4.27
Year:   1995

Name:   Scientific Genius: A Psychology of Science
Author: Dean Keith Simonton
Rating: 4.25
Year:   1988

Name:
  Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and
  the Economic World
Author: Kevin Kelly
Rating: 4.24
Year:   1995

Name:   The Brain: The Story of You
Author: David Eagleman
Rating: 4.20
Year:   2015

Name:   A Short History of Nearly Everything
Author: Bill Bryson
Rating: 4.19
Year:   2003

Name:   Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension
Author: Matt Parker
Rating: 4.19
Year:   2014

Name:
  The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain
Author: Terrence W. Deacon
Rating: 4.17
Year:   1998

Name:   A Brief History of Time
Author: Stephen Hawking
Rating: 4.12
Year:   1998

Name:   The Selfish Gene
Author: Richard Dawkins
Rating: 4.11
Year:   1976

Name:   Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind
Author: Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen
Rating: 4.11
Year:   2009

Name:   The New Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes in a Complex World
Author: Elkhonon Goldberg
Rating: 4.07
Year:   

Name:   The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
Author: Richard Dawkins
Rating: 4.07
Year:   1999

Name:   Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe
Author: Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee
Rating: 4.06
Year:   2003

Name:   Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Author: Mary Roach
Rating: 4.05
Year:   2004

Name:
  The Man Who Mistook His Wife for A Hat and Other Clinical Tales
Author: Oliver Sacks
Rating: 4.05
Year:   1998

Name:   Darwin's Dangerous Idea
Author: Daniel C. Dennett
Rating: 4.03
Year:   1995

Name:
  The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will
  Shape Our Future
Author: Kevin Kelly
Rating: 4.02
Year:   2016

Name:
  The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic
  Cannot Tell Us
Author: Noson S. Yanofsky
Rating: 4.00
Year:   2013

Name:
  The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition
Author: Thomas S. Kuhn
Rating: 3.99
Year:   1996

Name:
  At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of
  Self-Organization and Complexity
Author: Stuart Kauffman
Rating: 3.97
Year:   1996

Name:
  The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets
  and Freedom
Author: Yochai Benkler
Rating: 3.95
Year:   2006

Name:   Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence
Author: Hans Moravec.
Rating: 3.95
Year:   1990

Name:
  Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Rating: 3.94
Year:   1962

Name:   How to Find a Habitable Planet
Author: James Kasting
Rating: 3.93
Year:   2010

Name:
  The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human
  Evolution
Author: Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending
Rating: 3.91
Year:   2009

Name:
  The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and
  the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
Author: Sam Kean
Rating: 3.91
Year:   2010

Name:
  Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We
  Think About Our Lives
Author: David Sloan Wilson
Rating: 3.90
Year:   2007

Name:
  Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of
  Digital Life
Author: J. Craig Venter
Rating: 3.87
Year:   2013

Name:   The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
Author: Nicholas Carr
Rating: 3.85
Year:   2011

Name:   Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
Author: Richard Wrangham
Rating: 3.83
Year:   2009

Name:
  Heaven in a Chip: Fuzzy Visions of Society and Science in the
  Digital Age
Author: Bart Kosko
Rating: 3.82
Year:   2000

Name:
  The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex
Author: Murray Gell-Mann
Rating: 3.81
Year:   1994

Name:
  Tomorrowland: Our Staggering Journey from Science Fiction to
  Science Fact
Author: Steven Kotler
Rating: 3.80
Year:   2015

Name:   Origins of Genius: Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity
Author: Dean Keith
Rating: 3.74
Year:   1999

Name:
  Waters of the World: the story of the scientists who unravelled the
  mysteries of our seas, glaciers, and atmosphere and made the planet
  whole
Author: Sarah Dry
Rating: 3.65
Year:   2019

Name:   Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense
Author: Jonathan D. Moreno
Rating: 3.45
Year:   2007


Logic and Problem Solving

Name:
  What Is the Name of This Book?: The Riddle of Dracula and Other
  Logical Puzzles
Author: Raymond M. Smullyan
Rating: 4.24
Year:   2011

Name:
  A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science even If You
  Flunked Algebra
Author: Barbara Oakley
Rating: 4.22
Year:   2014

Name:   How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
Author: George Polya
Rating: 4.16
Year:   2015

Name:
  Guide to Competitive Programming: Learning and Improving Algorithms
  Through Contests
Author: Antti Laaksonen
Rating: 4.15
Year:   2016

Name:   Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
Author: Philip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner
Rating: 4.10
Year:   2015

Name:   Problem Solving 101: A Simple Book
Author: Ken Watanabe
Rating: 4.10
Year:   2009

Name:
  Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge
Author: William Poundstone
Rating: 4.05
Year:   1989

Name:   Mazes for the Mind: Computers and the Unexpected
Author: Clifford A. Pickover
Rating: 4.05
Year:   1992

Name:   Outnumbered: Exploring the Algorithms That Control Our Lives
Author: David Sumpter
Rating: 3.99
Year:   2018

Name:   Thinking Forth: A Language and Philosophy for Solving Problems
Author: Leo Brodie
Rating: 3.96
Year:   1984


Politics

Name:
  The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Author: Michelle Alexander
Rating: 4.49
Year:   2010

Name:   Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
Author: Michael J. Sandel
Rating: 4.25
Year:   

Name:   On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Author: Timothy Snyder
Rating: 4.20
Year:   2017

Name:
  The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and
  Religion
Author: Jonathan Haidt
Rating: 4.16
Year:   2012

Name:
  Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American
  Right
Author: Arlie Russell Hochschild
Rating: 4.15
Year:   2016

Name:
  Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race
  of a Lifetime
Author: John Heilemann, Mark Halperin
Rating: 4.10
Year:   2010

Name:   Bolo'bolo
Author: P.M.
Rating: 4.05
Year:   1984

Name:
  The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies
Author: Bryan Caplan
Rating: 3.96
Year:   2007

Name:
  The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security
Author: Kevin D. Mitnick
Rating: 3.76
Year:   2003

Name:   Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict
Author: Michael Klare
Rating: 3.73
Year:   2001

Name:
  The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
Author: Barack Obama
Rating: 3.70
Year:   2006


Economics

Name:
  The Simple Path to Wealth: Your road map to financial independence
  and a rich, free life
Author: J.L. Collins
Rating: 4.47
Year:   2016

Name:   Origin of Wealth
Author: Eric D. Beinhocker
Rating: 4.23
Year:   2006

Name:
  Every Shot Counts: Using the Revolutionary Strokes Gained Approach
  to Improve Your Golf Performance and Strategy
Author: Mark Broadie
Rating: 4.23
Year:   2014

Name:   Economic Facts and Fallacies
Author: Thomas Sowell
Rating: 4.18
Year:   2008

Name:   Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years
Author: David Graeber
Rating: 4.17
Year:   2011

Name:   Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Author: Thomas Piketty
Rating: 4.01
Year:   2014

Name:
  Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of
  Everything
Author: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
Rating: 3.98
Year:   2006

Name:   23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
Author: Ha-Joon Chang
Rating: 3.97
Year:   2010

Name:
  The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--but Some
  Don't
Author: Nate Silver
Rating: 3.96
Year:   2012

Name:   Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis
Author: James Rickards
Rating: 3.96
Year:   2011

Name:   The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
Author: Niall Ferguson
Rating: 3.88
Year:   2008

Name:
  The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What
  Can Be Done About It
Author: Paul Collier
Rating: 3.85
Year:   2007

Name:   The Thank You Economy
Author: Gary Vaynerchuk
Rating: 3.83
Year:   2011

Name:
  Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way To Be Smart
Author: Ian Ayres
Rating: 3.70
Year:   2007

Name:   A Farewell to Alms : A Brief Economic History of the World
Author: Gregory Clark
Rating: 3.67
Year:   2007


Gender

Name:   Cemetary Boys
Author: Aiden Thomas
Rating: 4.48
Year:   2020

Name:
  Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create
  Difference
Author: Cordelia Fine
Rating: 4.15
Year:   2010

Name:   Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
Author: Andrea Lawlor
Rating: 4.00
Year:   2017

Name:   Becoming A Man
Author: P. Carl
Rating: 3.95
Year:   2020


Sexuality

Name:   Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern
Author: Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jetha
Rating: 4.02
Year:   2010

Name:   The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities
Author: Dossie Easton, Catherine A. Liszt.
Rating: 3.83
Year:   2004

Name:   The Sex Myth
Author: Brooke Magnanti
Rating: 3.50
Year:   2015


Race

Name:   So You Want to Talk About Race
Author: Ijeoma Oluo
Rating: 4.53
Year:   2018

Name:   The Origin of Others
Author: Toni Morrison
Rating: 4.22
Year:   2017


Education

Name:   Educated: A Memoir
Author: Tara Westover
Rating: 4.47
Year:   2018

Name:   Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas
Author: Seymour A. Papert
Rating: 4.32
Year:   1993

Name:   The Little Prince
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Rating: 4.31
Year:   1943

Name:   How Children Fail
Author: John Holt
Rating: 4.22
Year:   1995

Name:   Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Author: Cal Newport
Rating: 4.20
Year:   2016

Name:   Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
Author: Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel
Rating: 4.20
Year:   2014

Name:   Teaching as a Subversive Activity
Author: Neil Postman, Charles Weingartner
Rating: 4.19
Year:   1971

Name:
  Limitless: Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, and Unlock
  Your Exceptional Life
Author: Jim Kwik
Rating: 4.09
Year:   2020

Name:   Summerhill School: A New View of Childhood
Author: A. S. Neill, Albert Lamb
Rating: 4.09
Year:   1995

Name:   The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance
Author: Josh Waitzkin
Rating: 4.08
Year:   2016

Name:
  Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up
  to Old School Culture
Author: Kirsten Olson, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Parker J. Palmer
Rating: 3.92
Year:   2009

Name:   Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist
Author: John Brockman
Rating: 3.72
Year:   2005


Writing

Name:   Hat Box: The Collected Lyrics
Author: Stephen Sondheim
Rating: 4.77
Year:   

Name:   On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Author: Stephen King
Rating: 4.31
Year:   2002

Name:   Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Author: Anne Lamott
Rating: 4.23
Year:   1995

Name:   Clear and Simple as the Truth
Author: Francis-Noël Thomas, Mark Turner
Rating: 4.06
Year:   1996

Name:
  The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the
  21st Century
Author: Steven Pinker
Rating: 4.03
Year:   2014


Theater and Film

Name:
  Different Every Night: Putting the play on stage and keeping it
  fresh
Author: Mike Alfreds
Rating: 4.69
Year:   2008

Name:   Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre
Author: Keith Johnstone
Rating: 4.27
Year:   

Name:   The Actor and the Target
Author: Declan Donnellan
Rating: 4.25
Year:   2006

Name:   In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing
Author: Walter Murch
Rating: 4.24
Year:   1995

Name:
  Notes on Directing: 130 Lessons in Leadership from the Director's
  Chair
Author: Frank Hauser, Russell Reich
Rating: 4.21
Year:   

Name:   How to Stop Acting
Author: Harold Guskin
Rating: 4.17
Year:   2003

Name:   A Practical Handbook for the Actor
Author:
  Melissa Bruder, Lee Michael Cohn, Madeleine Olnek, Nathaniel
  Pollack, Robert Previtio, Scott Zigler, David Mamet
Rating: 3.87
Year:   1986


Shakespeare

Name:
  Thinking Shakespeare: A How-to Guide for Student Actors, Directors,
  and Anyone Else Who Wants to Feel More Comfortable With the Bard
Author: Barry Edelstein.
Rating: 4.62
Year:   

Name:   Hamlet and Revenge
Author: Eleanor Prosser
Rating: 4.50
Year:   1971

Name:   Shakespeare's Metrical Art
Author: George T. Wright
Rating: 4.39
Year:   1991

Name:   Hamlet in Purgatory
Author: Stephen Greenblatt
Rating: 3.98
Year:   2002


Fiction

Classics

Name:   The Master and Margarita
Author: Mikhail Bulgakov
Rating: 4.32
Year:   1966

Name:   Infinite Jest
Author: David Foster Wallace
Rating: 4.31
Year:   1996

Name:   The Brothers Karamazov
Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky
Rating: 4.30
Year:   1880

Name:   Pride And Prejudice
Author: Jane Austen
Rating: 4.24
Year:   1813

Name:   A Prayer for Owen Meany
Author: John Irving
Rating: 4.22
Year:   1989

Name:   Letters From The Earth
Author: Mark Twain
Rating: 4.22
Year:   1962

Name:   One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Author: Ken Kesey
Rating: 4.18
Year:   1963

Name:   Crime and Punishment
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Rating: 4.18
Year:   1866

Name:   1984
Author: George Orwell
Rating: 4.17
Year:   1949

Name:   The Giver
Author: Lois Lowry
Rating: 4.13
Year:   1993

Name:   Steppenwolf: A Novel
Author: Hermann Hesse, Basil Creighton
Rating: 4.11
Year:   1927

Name:   The Glass Bead Game
Author: Hermann Hesse, Richard and Clara Winston
Rating: 4.11
Year:   1943

Name:   War and Peace
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Rating: 4.11
Year:   1867

Name:   Jane Eyre
Author: Charlotte Brontë
Rating: 4.10
Year:   1847

Name:   Germinal
Author: Emile Zola
Rating: 4.10
Year:   1885

Name:   If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Author: Italo Calvino and William Weaver
Rating: 4.08
Year:   1979

Name:   Slaughterhouse-Five
Author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Rating: 4.08
Year:   1969

Name:   The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander
Rating: 4.07
Year:   1948

Name:   Sense and Sensibility
Author: Jane Austen
Rating: 4.06
Year:   1811

Name:   The Picture of Dorian Gray
Author: Oscar Wilde
Rating: 4.06
Year:   1890

Name:   Watership Down: A Novel
Author: Richard Adams
Rating: 4.05
Year:   1972

Name:   One Hundred Years of Solitude
Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory Rabassa
Rating: 4.04
Year:   1967

Name:   The Death of Ivan Ilych
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Rating: 4.04
Year:   1886

Name:   Siddhartha
Author: Hermann Hesse
Rating: 4.03
Year:   1922

Name:   Anna Karenina
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Rating: 4.02
Year:   1878

Name:   Bleak House
Author: Charles Dickens
Rating: 4.00
Year:   1853

Name:   J'accuse
Author: Emile Zola
Rating: 3.99
Year:   1898

Name:   Catch 22
Author: Joseph Heller
Rating: 3.98
Year:   1961

Name:   The House of Mirth
Author: Edith Wharton
Rating: 3.94
Year:   1905

Name:   Confessions of a Mask
Author: Yukio Mishima
Rating: 3.91
Year:   1949

Name:   De L'esprit Des Lois
Author: Montesquieu
Rating: 3.91
Year:   1748

Name:   Love in the Time of Cholera
Author: Gabriel García Marquéz
Rating: 3.9
Year:   1985

Name:   Don Quixote
Author: Miguel de Cervantes
Rating: 3.85
Year:   1605

Name:   Mansfield Park
Author: Jane Austen
Rating: 3.84
Year:   1814

Name:   Wuthering Heights
Author: Emily Bronte
Rating: 3.82
Year:   1847

Name:   Père Goriot
Author: Honoré de Balzac
Rating: 3.82
Year:   1834

Name:   Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Author: Mark Twain
Rating: 3.80
Year:   1884

Name:   The Catcher in the Rye
Author: J.D. Salinger
Rating: 3.79
Year:   1951

Name:   Eugénie Grandet
Author: Honoré de Balzac
Rating: 3.79
Year:   1833

Name:
  Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Author: Robert M. Pirsig
Rating: 3.76
Year:   1974

Name:   Candide
Author: Voltaire
Rating: 3.76
Year:   1759

Name:   Atlas Shrugged
Author: Ayn Rand
Rating: 3.68
Year:   1957

Name:   Madame Bovary
Author: Gustave Flaubert
Rating: 3.65
Year:   1856

Name:   Confessions
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rating: 3.61
Year:   1782

Name:   Lettres persanes
Author: Montesquieu
Rating: 3.54
Year:   1721

Name:   The Director
Author: David Ignatius
Rating: 3.43
Year:   2015


Fantasy

Name:   The Stormlight Archive
Author: Brandon Sanderson
Rating: 4.81
Year:   2007

Name:   The Kingkiller Chronicle
Author: Patrick Rothfuss
Rating: 4.55
Year:   2007

Name:   The Lord of the Rings
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
Rating: 4.47
Year:   1954

Name:   A Song of Ice and Fire
Author: George R.R. Martin
Rating: 4.45
Year:   2005

Name:   Harry Potter
Author: J.K. Rowling
Rating: 4.44
Year:   1997

Name:   Mistborn
Author: Brandon Sanderson
Rating: 4.43
Year:   2006

Name:   Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Author: Eliezer Yudkowsky
Rating: 4.38
Year:   2015

Name:   Discworld
Author: Terry Pratchett
Rating: 4.32
Year:   2001

Name:   The Dark Tower
Author: Stephen King
Rating: 4.27
Year:   1982

Name:   His Dark Materials
Author: Philip Pullman
Rating: 4.25
Year:   1995

Name:   The Last Wish
Author: Andrzej Sapkowski
Rating: 4.2
Year:   1993

Name:   The Chronicles of Narnia
Author: Clive Staples Lewis
Rating: 4.24
Year:   2002

Name:   The Wheel of Time
Author: Robert Jordan
Rating: 4.19
Year:   1990

Name:   The City & The City
Author: China Mieville
Rating: 3.91
Year:   2009

Name:   The Broken Empire
Author: Mark Lawrence
Rating: 3.87
Year:   2011

Name:   Of Fire and Stars Book
Author: Audrey Coulthurst
Rating: 3.76
Year:   2016


Historical Fiction

Name:   Lonesome Dove
Author: Larry McMurtry
Rating: 4.47
Year:   1985

Name:   The Help
Author: Kathryn Stockett
Rating: 4.45
Year:   2009

Name:   A Thousand Splendid Suns
Author: Khaled Hosseini
Rating: 4.4
Year:   2007

Name:   The Book Thief
Author: Markus Zusak
Rating: 4.36
Year:   2005

Name:   All the Light We Cannot See
Author: Anthony Doerr
Rating: 4.31
Year:   2014

Name:   The Kite Runner
Author: Khaled Hosseini
Rating: 4.3
Year:   2003

Name:   The Pillars of the Earth
Author: Ken Follett
Rating: 4.29
Year:   1989

Name:   Kane and Abel
Author: Jeffrey Archer
Rating: 4.27
Year:   1979

Name:   Memoirs of a Geisha
Author: Arthur Golden
Rating: 4.12
Year:   1997

Name:   One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Rating: 4
Year:   1962

Name:   Emma
Author: Jane Austen
Rating: 3.99
Year:   1815

Name:   Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy
Author: Jostein Gaarder and Paulette Moller
Rating: 3.88
Year:   1991


Humor

Name:   I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell
Author: Tucker Max
Rating: 3.51
Year:   2006


Mystery

Name:   Sherlock Holmes
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Rating: 4.30
Year:   1998

Name:   And Then There Were None
Author: Agatha Christie
Rating: 4.26
Year:   1939

Name:   The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Author: Agatha Christie
Rating: 4.20
Year:   2006

Name:   The Eight
Author: Katherine Neville
Rating: 4.17
Year:   

Name:   The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Author: Stieg Larsson
Rating: 4.14
Year:   2005

Name:   Memory Man
Author: David Baldacci
Rating: 4.05
Year:   2015

Name:   The Turn of the Key
Author: Ruth Ware
Rating: 3.94
Year:   2019

Name:   Angels & Demons
Author: Dan Brown
Rating: 3.93
Year:   2000

Name:   The Girl on the Train
Author: Paula Hawkins
Rating: 3.88
Year:   2015

Name:   The Da Vinci Code
Author: Dan Brown
Rating: 3.79
Year:   2006


Science Fiction

Name:   Project Hail Mary
Author: Andy Weir
Rating: 4.52
Year:   2021

Name:   The Martian
Author: Andy Weir
Rating: 4.40
Year:   2012

Name:   The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Author: Douglas Adams
Rating: 4.38
Year:   1979

Name:   Champion
Author: Marie Lu
Rating: 4.32
Year:   2013

Name:   Ready Player One
Author: Ernest Cline
Rating: 4.31
Year:   2011

Name:   11/22/63
Author: Stephen King
Rating: 4.31
Year:   2011

Name:   Ender's Game - Saga
Author: Orson Scott Card
Rating: 4.30
Year:   1994

Name:   The Player of Games
Author: Iain M. Banks
Rating: 4.26
Year:   1997

Name:   The Fifth Sacred Thing
Author: Starhawk
Rating: 4.25
Year:   1994

Name:   Prodigy
Author: Marie Lu
Rating: 4.24
Year:   2013

Name:   Hyperion
Author: Dan Simmons
Rating: 4.21
Year:   1989

Name:   Cosmicomics
Author: Italo Calvino
Rating: 4.2
Year:   1965

Name:   The Diamond Age
Author: Neal Stephenson
Rating: 4.19
Year:   2000

Name:   Dune Chronicles
Author: Frank Herbert
Rating: 4.19
Year:   2006

Name:   Roadside Picnic
Author: Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky
Rating: 4.16
Year:   1972

Name:   The Forever War
Author: Joe Haldemann
Rating: 4.15
Year:   1974

Name:   Contact
Author: Carl Sagan
Rating: 4.14
Year:   1985

Name:   Foundation
Author: Isaac Asimov
Rating: 4.13
Year:   2004

Name:   Snow Crash
Author: Neal Stephenson
Rating: 4.02
Year:   2000

Name:   Brave New World
Author: Aldous Huxley
Rating: 3.99
Year:   1932

Name:   Fahrenheit 451
Author: Ray Bradbury
Rating: 3.97
Year:   2006

Name:   Little Brother
Author: Cory Doctorow
Rating: 3.94
Year:   2008

Name:   The Time Machine
Author: H.G Wells
Rating: 3.89
Year:   1895


Horror

Name:   It
Author: Stephen King
Rating: 4.24
Year:   1986

Name:   House of Leaves
Author: Mark Z. Danielewski
Rating: 4.13
Year:   2000

Name:   If it bleeds
Author: Stephen King
Rating: 4.10
Year:   2020

Name:   Rosemary's Baby
Author: Ira Levin
Rating: 4.00
Year:   1967

Name:   Dracula
Author: Bram Stoker
Rating: 3.98
Year:   1986

Name:   London (Surviving The Evacuation #1)
Author: Frank Tayell
Rating: 3.86
Year:   2013

Name:   Frankenstein
Author: Mary Shelley, Maurice Hindle
Rating: 3.75
Year:   2003


Miscellaneous

Name:   The Queen's Gambit
Author: Walter Tevis
Rating: 4.11
Year:   

Name:   The Bone People
Author: Keri Hulme
Rating: 4.06
Year:   1986

Name:   Cat's Eye
Author: Margaret Atwood
Rating: 3.92
Year:   1998

Name:   Xeelee Sequence
Author: Stephen Baxter
Rating: 3.69
Year:   1992

Name:   Ghost Fleet
Author: P.W. Singer and August Cole
Rating: 3.62
Year:   2015

Name:   Future Crimes
Author: Marc Goodman
Rating: 3.42
Year:   1990


Health

Name:
  How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent
  and Reverse Disease
Author: Michael Greger, M.D.
Rating: 4.54
Year:   2015

Name:
  Overcoming Gravity: A Systematic Approach to Gymnastics and
  Bodyweight Strength (2nd edition)
Author: Steven Low
Rating: 4.3
Year:   2016

Name:   Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
Author: James Nestor
Rating: 4.15
Year:   2020

Name:   Convict Conditioning
Author: Paul Wade
Rating: 4.13
Year:   2012

Name:   Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
Author: Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman
Rating: 3.95
Year:   2012

Name:
  Brain Food: The Surprising Science of Eating for Cognitive Power
Author: Lisa Mosconi
Rating: 3.92
Year:   2018

Name:
  Super Human: The Bulletproof Plan to Age Backward and Maybe Even
  Live Forever
Author: Dave Asprey
Rating: 3.86
Year:   2019

Name:   8 Weeks to Optimum Health
Author: Andrew Weil
Rating: 3.86
Year:   

Name:
  Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and
  Sugar--Your Brain's Silent Killers
Author: David Perlmutter
Rating: 3.89
Year:   2013


Design

Name:   Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
Author:
  Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max
  Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King and Shlomo Angel
Rating: 4.38
Year:   1977

Name:   Data visualization handbook
Author: Juuso Koponen, Jonatan Hildén
Rating: 4.33
Year:   2019

Name:   How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
Author: Stewart Brand
Rating: 4.32
Year:   1995

Name:
  Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web
  Usability
Author: Steve Krug
Rating: 4.24
Year:   2014

Name:   The Design of Everyday Things
Author: Donald Norman
Rating: 4.18
Year:   2002

Name:   Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design
Author: Kat Holmes, John Maeda
Rating: 4.14
Year:   2018

Name:   The Art of Looking Sideways
Author: Alan Fletcher
Rating: 4.10
Year:   2001

Name:
  Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and
  Inspires Innovation
Author: Tim Brown
Rating: 3.88
Year:   2009


Travel

Name:
  Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders
Author: Joshua Foer
Rating: 4.24
Year:   2016


Language

Name:   Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language
Author: Douglas R. Hofstadter
Rating: 4.22
Year:   1997

Name:   The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
Author: Steven Pinker
Rating: 4.02
Year:   2000


Nature

Name:   The Wild Places
Author: Robert Macfarlane
Rating: 4.27
Year:   2007

Name:   The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Author: Elizabeth Kolbert
Rating: 4.13
Year:   2014

Name:   Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Author: Annie Dillard
Rating: 4.11
Year:   1974

Name:
  A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trai
Author: Bill Bryson
Rating: 4.06
Year:   2006

Name:   The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
Author: David Wallace-Wells
Rating: 4.06
Year:   2019


Art

Name:   The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Author: Betty Edwards
Rating: 3.86
Year:   1989

Name:
  Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
Author: Austin Kleon
Rating: 3.92
Year:   2012

Name:
  Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
Author: Austin Kleon
Rating: 4.10
Year:   2014


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