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Sapiens

Yuval Noah Harari, Yuval N. Harari

4.33 / 1 281 592 ratings

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Renegades

Barack Obama, Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen

4.32 / 2 682 ratings

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Numbers Don't Lie

Vaclav Smil, Smil Vaclav

3.82 / 10 538 ratings

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Who Cooked the Last Supper?

Rosalind Miles, Miles Rosalind

3.79 / 4 677 ratings

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Guns, Germs and Steel

Jared Diamond, Jared M. Diamond

4.04 / 462 018 ratings

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Sapiens Volume Two The Pillars of Civilization

Yuval Noah Harari, Yuval N. Harari, David Vandermeulen, Daniel Casanave (illustrator), David Vandermeulen (editor)

4.24 / 5 435 ratings

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Sapiens A Graphic History, Volume 1

Yuval Noah Harari, Yuval N. Harari, David Vandermeulen, Daniel Casanave (artist)

4.31 / 22 212 ratings

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Ask A Historian: 57 Things You Always Wanted to Know, But Didn't Know Who to Ask

Greg Jenner

4.10 / 2 631 ratings

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Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls

Elena Favilli, Francesca Cavallo

4.31 / 43 829 ratings

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Brothers in Arms: A Legendary Tank Regiment's Bloody War from D-Day to VE Day

James Holland

4.44 / 1 884 ratings

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Less Is More

Jason Hickel, Hickel Jason

4.50 / 9 396 ratings

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A History of the World in 100 Objects

Dr Neil MacGregor, Neil Macgregor

4.19 / 9 445 ratings

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The Darkening Age

Catherine Nixey

4.06 / 6 736 ratings

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The Madman's Library

Edward Brooke-Hitching

4.24 / 1 927 ratings

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Midnight in Chernobyl

Adam Higginbotham, HIGGINBOTHAM ADAM

4.36 / 66 542 ratings

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Energy and Civilization

Vaclav Smil, Smil Vaclav

4.09 / 4 164 ratings

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Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages

Dan Jones

4.39 / 10 594 ratings

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A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters

Henry Gee

4.05 / 3 240 ratings

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Lessons of History

Will Durant, Durant, Durant Will, Ariel Durant

4.05 / 20 866 ratings

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Cosmos and Psyche

Richard Tarnas, Tarnas Richard

4.24 / 1 280 ratings

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Debt

David Graeber

4.21 / 27 344 ratings

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Sapiens

Renegades

Numbers Don't Lie

Who Cooked the Last Supper?

Guns, Germs and Steel

Sapiens Volume Two The Pillars of Civilization

Sapiens A Graphic History, Volume 1

Ask A Historian: 57 Things You Always Wanted to Know, But Didn't Know Who to Ask

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls

Brothers in Arms: A Legendary Tank Regiment's Bloody War from D-Day to VE Day

Less Is More

A History of the World in 100 Objects

The Darkening Age

The Madman's Library

Midnight in Chernobyl

Energy and Civilization

Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages

A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters

Lessons of History

Cosmos and Psyche

Debt

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