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History books
Big-picture history and civilizations, and the books historians cite.
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Charles C. Mann
A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn
Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Jared Diamond
Command and Control
Eric Schlosser
Cosmos
Carl Sagan
Endurance; Shackleton's incredible voyage
Alfred Lansing
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Yuval Noah Harari
Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson
Prisoners of Geography
Tim Marshall
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Mary Beard
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
David Graeber and David Wengrow
The Lessons of History
Will Durant
The Looming Tower
Lawrence Wright
The Rise and Decline of Nations
Mancur Olson
The Silk Roads
Peter Frankopan
The Splendid and the Vile
Erik Larson
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
Jürgen Habermas
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas S. Kuhn
The Wright Brothers
David McCullough
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Ron Chernow
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
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