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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
4.33 average rating, · 1.3M ratings
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Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
Yuval Noah Harari
4.18 average rating, · 293.5k ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Jared Diamond
4.04 average rating, · 468.2k ratings
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Charles C. Mann
4.05 average rating, · 97.4k ratings
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years
David Graeber
4.21 average rating, · 28k ratings
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
Charles C. Mann
4.12 average rating, · 21.4k ratings
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Dark Emu
Bruce Pascoe
4.26 average rating, · 16.4k ratings
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Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
Daniel E. Lieberman
4.17 average rating, · 10.9k ratings
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Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
Christina Thompson
4.24 average rating, · 7.8k ratings
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Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
David Christian
4.06 average rating, · 7.8k ratings
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Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth's Lost Civilization
Graham Hancock
4.17 average rating, · 7k ratings
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Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Tyson Yunkaporta
4.35 average rating, · 5.1k ratings
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Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains
Alexa Hagerty
4.41 average rating, · 3.6k ratings
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Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
Laura Spinney
4.14 average rating, · 4k ratings
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America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization
Graham Hancock
4.13 average rating, · 3.8k ratings
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The Story of Human Language
John McWhorter
4.40 average rating, · 3.2k ratings
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Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
Jason De León
4.27 average rating, · 3.3k ratings
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Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
Elizabeth Wayland Barber
4.31 average rating, · 3.1k ratings
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Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials
Alice Roberts
4.08 average rating, · 3.3k ratings
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Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations
Sam Kean
4.06 average rating, · 3.1k ratings
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Without Mercy
Jefferson Bass
4.12 average rating, · 2.6k ratings
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Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
Kermit Pattison
4.13 average rating, · 2.3k ratings
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Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story
Lee Berger
4.22 average rating, · 2.2k ratings
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The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos
Leonard Mlodinow
4.13 average rating, · 2.2k ratings
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