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The story of mankind

Hendrik Willem Van Loon

1922

Guns, germs, and steel

Jared M. Diamond

1997 ★ 4.1

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

2006 ★ 3.9

A Canticle for Leibowitz

Волтер Майкл Міллер-молодший, Walter M. Miller Jr.

1960 ★ 3.9

Crispin--The Cross of Lead

Avi, Ron Keith

2002 ★ 3.4

Candide

Voltaire

1759 ★ 4.0

Cannibals and kings

Marvin Harris

1977 ★ 4.3

The Complete World of Greek Mythology

Richard Buxton

2004 ★ 5.0

Pharaoh's daughter

Julius Lester

2000 ★ 3.7

Glimpses of world history

Jawaharlal Nehru

1942 ★ 4.0

Der Zauberberg

Thomas Mann

1924 ★ 4.2

Как закалялась сталь

Nikolay Ostrovsky

1937 ★ 3.0

The Free Voice on Democracy, Culture and the Nation

Ravish Kumar

2018 ★ 4.7

One-Dimensional Man

Herbert Marcuse

1964 ★ 4.0

The Greek way

Edith Hamilton

1942 ★ 3.3

The man who loved China

Simon Winchester

2008 ★ 3.7

The discovery of India

Jawaharlal Nehru

1946 ★ 3.9

Istanbul

Orhan Pamuk

2005 ★ 3.2

Industrial Society and Its Future

Theodore Kaczynski

1995 ★ 4.0

Wrong About Japan

Peter Carey

2005 ★ 4.0

Unbehagen in der Kultur

Sigmund Freud

1961 ★ 3.4

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

Ṭalʻat Shāyib, Samuel P. Huntington, Ṣalāḥ Qanṣūh

1996 ★ 3.6

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs

Chuck Klosterman

2003 ★ 3.3

1177 B.C.

Eric H. Cline, Cecilia Belza

2014 ★ 3.2

Mawsim al-hijrah ilá al-shamāl

Tayeb Salih, al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ, al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ et al.

1970 ★ 4.0

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Yuval Noah Harari

2018 ★ 4.0

The age of American unreason

Cassandra Campbell, Susan Jacoby

2008 ★ 4.7

People

Peter Spier

1980 ★ 4.3

El invierno del mundo / Winter of the World

Ken Follett

2012 ★ 3.9

Jerusalem

Simon Sebag-Montefiore

2011 ★ 4.5

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