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.
Undoing Project
Michael Lewis
recommended by 3 people
The Old Way
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
recommended by 3 people
Why Nations Fail
Daron Acemoglu
recommended by 3 people
Medieval technology and social change.
Lynn White
recommended by 3 people
Storm of steel
Ernst Jünger
recommended by 3 people
Box
Marc Levinson
recommended by 3 people
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
recommended by 3 people
Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles
recommended by 3 people
The good earth
Pearl S Buck
recommended by 2 people
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Anonymous
recommended by 2 people
The idea factory
Jon Gertner
recommended by 2 people
Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
recommended by 2 people
Great Escape
Angus Deaton
recommended by 2 people
The Great trasformation
Karl Polanyi
recommended by 2 people
American Story
David M. Rubenstein
recommended by 2 people
Airbnb Story
Leigh Gallagher
recommended by 2 people
The new Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander
recommended by 2 people
Shot to Save the World
Gregory Zuckerman
recommended by 2 people
The swerve
Stephen Greenblatt
recommended by 2 people
American Caesar
William Manchester
recommended by 2 people
Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson
recommended by 2 people
The fifteen decisive battles of the world
Edward Shepherd Creasy
recommended by 2 people
The lives of the artists
Giorgio Vasari
recommended by 2 people
The rise and fall of the Third Reich
William L. Shirer
recommended by 2 people