Best books in History
The daily bread of the catalog's most curious thinkers. Patrick Collison, Barack Obama and Noam Chomsky dominate this category, and the titles they chose reveal that understanding the present always starts with understanding what came before.
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Guns, germs, and steel
Jared Diamond
recommended by 9 people
Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell
recommended by 9 people
Better Angels of Our Nature
Steven Pinker
recommended by 7 people
Homo Deus
Yuval Noah Harari
recommended by 6 people
Great Gatsby - the Great American Historical Romance Novel
F. Scott Fitzgerald
recommended by 6 people
The rational optimist
Matt Ridley
recommended by 6 people
Changing World Order
Ray Dalio
recommended by 5 people
Ana Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
recommended by 5 people
Einstein
Walter Isaacson
recommended by 5 people
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
recommended by 5 people
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
recommended by 5 people
Destined for War
Graham Allison
recommended by 4 people
Þrúgur reiðinnar
John Steinbeck
recommended by 4 people
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
recommended by 4 people
Who We Are and How We Got Here
David Reich
recommended by 4 people
Titan
Ron Chernow
recommended by 4 people
Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
recommended by 4 people
Billion Dollar Whale
Tom Wright
recommended by 3 people
The Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
recommended by 3 people
Caste
Isabel Wilkerson
recommended by 3 people
Too big to fail : the inside story of how Wall Street and Washington fought to save the financial system--and themselves
Andrew Ross Sorkin
recommended by 3 people
Masters of Doom
David Kushner
recommended by 3 people
Undoing Project
Michael Lewis
recommended by 3 people
The Old Way
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
recommended by 3 people