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Sapiens

Sapiens

Yuval Noah Harari
101 recs
Man's Search for Meaning

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl
100 recs
Factfulness

Factfulness

Hans Rosling
28 recs
Guns, Germs, and Steel

Guns, Germs, and Steel

Jared Diamond
27 recs
The Art of War

The Art of War

Sun Tzu
26 recs
Endurance

Endurance

Alfred Lansing
25 recs
Homo Deus

Homo Deus

Yuval Noah Harari
25 recs
The Better Angels of Our Nature

The Better Angels of Our Nature

Steven Pinker
25 recs
The Rational Optimist

The Rational Optimist

Matt Ridley
24 recs
Enlightenment Now

Enlightenment Now

Steven Pinker
22 recs
Between the World and Me

Between the World and Me

TaNehisi Coates
21 recs
Einstein

Einstein

Walter Isaacson
20 recs
Titan

Titan

Ron Chernow
20 recs
21 Lessons for the 21st Century

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Yuval Noah Harari
19 recs
Team of Rivals

Team of Rivals

Doris Kearns Goodwin
19 recs
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

Walter Isaacson
19 recs
Red Notice

Red Notice

Bill Browder
18 recs
The Autobiography of Malcolm X

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Malcolm X
18 recs
The True Believer

The True Believer

Eric Hoffer
18 recs
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin
17 recs
No cover
Caste

Caste

Isabel Wilkerson
16 recs
A Short History of Nearly Everything

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Bill Bryson
16 recs
No cover
Evicted

Evicted

Matthew Desmond
14 recs
The Power Broker

The Power Broker

Robert A. Caro
14 recs
The Gene

The Gene

Siddhartha Mukherjee
14 recs
The Power of Myth

The Power of Myth

Joseph Campbell
14 recs
The Hero with a Thousand Faces

The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Joseph Campbell
14 recs
Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci

Walter Isaacson
14 recs
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Thomas S. Kuhn
14 recs
Tribe

Tribe

Sebastian Junger
14 recs
The Spy and the Traitor

The Spy and the Traitor

Ben MacIntyre
13 recs
No cover
Masters of Doom

Masters of Doom

David Kushner
13 recs
The Fish That Ate the Whale

The Fish That Ate the Whale

Rich Cohen
13 recs
Sex at Dawn

Sex at Dawn

Christopher Ryan
13 recs
American Kingpin

American Kingpin

Nick Bilton
12 recs
No cover
The Emperor of All Maladies

The Emperor of All Maladies

Siddhartha Mukherjee
12 recs
No cover
Destined for War

Destined for War

Graham Allison
12 recs
The Wright Brothers

The Wright Brothers

David McCullough
12 recs
A People's History of the United States

A People's History of the United States

Howard Zinn
12 recs
No cover
The Great Influenza

The Great Influenza

John M. Barry
12 recs
The Prize

The Prize

Daniel Yergin
11 recs
How Innovation Works

How Innovation Works

Matt Ridley
11 recs
The WEIRDest People in the World

The WEIRDest People in the World

Joseph Henrich
11 recs
The Rise and Fall of American Growth

The Rise and Fall of American Growth

Robert J. Gordon
11 recs
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Jack Weatherford
11 recs
Against the Gods

Against the Gods

Peter L. Bernstein
11 recs
No cover
Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Thomas Piketty
11 recs
No cover
The Prince

The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli
10 recs