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Readers Count
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#2
Columbine
Columbine
  • Dave Cullen
4.36128 reads
#3
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
  • Elizabeth Kolbert
4.03134 reads
#4
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
  • Bart D. Ehrman
3.6844 reads
#5
Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them
Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them
  • Bart D. Ehrman
3.8128 reads
#6
A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Short History of Nearly Everything
  • Bill Bryson
4.23553 reads
#7
Time Reborn
Time Reborn
  • Lee Smolin
45 reads
#8
The Trouble with Physics
The Trouble with Physics
  • Lee Smolin
4.1813 reads
#9
Janson's History of Art
Janson's History of Art
  • H.W. Janson
  • Penelope J.E. Davies
51 read
#10
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
  • Sam Harris
3.8858 reads
#11
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
  • Steve Coll
4.3128 reads
#12
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
  • Mary Roach
3.7766 reads
#13
Packing for Mars
Packing for Mars
  • Mary Roach
4.02135 reads
#14
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
  • Mary Roach
3.92117 reads
#15
How Music Got Free
How Music Got Free
  • Stephen Witt
4.1925 reads
#16
Fatal Invention
Fatal Invention
  • Dorothy Roberts
4.756 reads
#17
Cover 1

Race and the Genetic Revolution

Race and the Genetic Revolution: Science, Myth, and Culture
    41 read
    #18
    God Is Not Great: The Case Against Religion
    God Is Not Great: The Case Against Religion
    • Christopher Hitchens
    3.89153 reads
    #19
    Arguably
    Arguably
    • Christopher Hitchens
    412 reads
    #20
    The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
    The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
    • Thomas S. Kuhn
    3.9272 reads
    #21
    Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street
    Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street
    • Tomáš Sedláček
    21 read
    #22
    Ghettoside
    Ghettoside
    • Jill Leovy
    • Dorothy L. Sayers
    3.7924 reads
    #23
    A New History of Western Philosophy
    A New History of Western Philosophy
    • Anthony Kenny
    3.253 reads
    #24
    Serendipities : language & lunacy
    Serendipities : language & lunacy
    • Umberto Eco
    36 reads
    #25
    Inventing the Enemy: Essays
    Inventing the Enemy: Essays
    • Umberto Eco
    31 read
    #26
    Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
    Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
    • Daniel C. Dennett
    4.314 reads
    #27
    The Science of Yoga
    The Science of Yoga
    • William J. Broad
    44 reads
    #28
    A Brief History of Thought
    A Brief History of Thought
    • Luc Ferry
    3.47 reads
    #29
    A Little History of Philosophy
    A Little History of Philosophy
    • Nigel Warburton
    4.0631 reads
    #30
    The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays and The Birth of Public Relations
    The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays and The Birth of Public Relations
    • Larry Tye
    32 reads
    #31
    Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War
    Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War
    • Evan Wright
    4.2828 reads
    #32
    Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci
    Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci
    • Leonardo da Vinci
    31 read
    #33
    Leonardo's Notebooks
    Leonardo's Notebooks
    • Leonardo da Vinci
    45 reads
    #34
    Cover 6

    The Pleasure Principle

    The Pleasure Principle: Epicureanism: A Philosophy for Modern Living
    • Catherine Wilson
    31 read
    #35
    American Predator
    American Predator
    • Maureen Callahan
    4.1173 reads
    #36
    Empty Planet
    Empty Planet
    • Darrell Bricker
    • John Ibbitson
    3.811 reads
    #37
    The return of depression economics and the crisis of 2008
    The return of depression economics and the crisis of 2008
    • Paul Krugman
    3.2711 reads
    #38
    Mind Fixers
    Mind Fixers
    • Anne Harrington
    43 reads
    #39
    Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy
    Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy
    • Tim Harford
    3.5514 reads
    #40
    Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime
    Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime
    • Val McDermid
    3.6922 reads
    #41
    Factfulness
    Factfulness
    • Hans Rosling
    4.33332 reads
    #42
    Wealth, Poverty and Politics: An International Perspective
    Wealth, Poverty and Politics: An International Perspective
    • Thomas Sowell
    3.65 reads
    #43
    The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
    The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
    • Sam Kean
    4.0527 reads
    #44
    Dead Mountain
    Dead Mountain
    • Donnie Eichar
    3.8337 reads
    #45
    Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
    Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
    • Daron Acemoğlu
    • James A. Robinson
    3.7690 reads
    #46
    Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years
    Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years
    • Jared Diamond
    3.88411 reads
    #47
    Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
    Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
    • Jared Diamond
    3.8589 reads
    #48
    Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
    Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
    • Jared Diamond
    3.6322 reads
    #49
    Debt: The First 5,000 Years
    Debt: The First 5,000 Years
    • David Graeber
    4.13131 reads
    #50
    Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior
    Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior
    • Bart D. Ehrman
    3.55 reads
    #51
    Capital in the Twenty-First Century
    Capital in the Twenty-First Century
    • Thomas Piketty
    • Arthur Goldhammer (Translator)
    4.1473 reads
    #52
    The Closing of the American Mind
    The Closing of the American Mind
    • Allan Bloom
    2.579 reads
    #53
    The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
    The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
    • Niall Ferguson
    3.8443 reads
    #54
    Suicide of the West
    Suicide of the West
    • Jonah Goldberg
    4.754 reads
    #55
    In Pursuit of the Unknown
    In Pursuit of the Unknown
    • Ian Stewart
    3.57 reads
    #56
    The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning
    The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning
      44 reads