Guns, germs, and steel

Jared M. Diamond

1997 ★ 4.1

On the origin of species by means of natural selection

Charles Darwin

1860 ★ 4.3

Fifty Degrees Below

Kim Stanley Robinson

2005 ★ 2.4

Menschliches, Allzumenschliches

Friedrich Nietzsche

1974 ★ 3.8

Sapiens

Yuval Noah Harari

2014 ★ 4.2

Out of the Dark

David Weber

2010 ★ 2.7

Our Kind

Marvin Harris

1990 ★ 4.0

Cannibals and kings

Marvin Harris

1977 ★ 4.3

Sum

David Eagleman

2008 ★ 3.9

The Blank Slate

Roc Filella Escolà, ʻImanuʾel Loṭem, Steven Pinker et al.

2002 ★ 4.2

Design with nature

Ian L. McHarg

1969 ★ 4.3

The Human Condition

Hannah Arendt

1958 ★ 4.9

Fröhliche Wissenschaft

Josefine Nauckhoff, Bernard Williams, Adrian Del Caro et al.

1960 ★ 4.1

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Yuval Noah Harari

2018 ★ 4.0

People

Peter Spier

1980 ★ 4.3

My nose, your nose

Melanie Walsh

2002 ★ 4.7

The Naked Ape

Desmond Morris

1967 ★ 3.7

Behave

Robert M. Sapolsky

2017 ★ 3.9

The ascent of man

Jacob Bronowski

1973 ★ 4.5

Treason

Orson Scott Card

1988 ★ 4.0

Life on the Mississippi

Mark Twain

1883 ★ 3.8

On human nature

Edward Osborne Wilson

1978 ★ 4.7

By heresies distressed

David Weber

2009 ★ 4.0

Pensées

Margival Henri, T. S. Eliot, Philippe Sellier et al.

1704 ★ 4.0

Building a Second Brain

Tiago Forte

2022 ★ 3.5

A short history of nearly everything

Bill Bryson

2003 ★ 4.2

Human Universe

Andrew Cohen, Brian Cox

2014 ★ 3.7

Tom Sawyer Abroad

Mark Twain

1894 ★ 3.2

The ghost in the machine

Arthur Koestler

1967 ★ 4.7

Earth (The Book)

Jon Stewart

2010 ★ 4.2