Human History, Human Progress
1. 
Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation
by:
Amartya Sen
4.19 avg rating β 323 ratings 2. 
Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol 2: The Wheels of Commerce
by:
Fernand Braudel
4.46 avg rating β 578 ratings 3. 
Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol. 1: The Structures of Everyday Life
by:
Fernand Braudel
4.35 avg rating β 1,711 ratings 4. 
Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol. 3: The Perspective of the World
by:
Fernand Braudel
4.42 avg rating β 478 ratings 4. 
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
by:
Charles C. Mann
4.05 avg rating β 93,187 ratings 
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
by:
Charles C. Mann
4.12 avg rating β 20,586 ratings 12. 
The Intimate Bond: How Animals Shaped Human History
by:
Brian M. Fagan
3.52 avg rating β 251 ratings 13. 
Floods, Famines, And Emperors: El Nino And The Fate Of Civilizations
by:
Brian M. Fagan
3.70 avg rating β 224 ratings 14. 
The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850
by:
Brian M. Fagan
3.84 avg rating β 2,720 ratings 
18. 
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by:
Jared Diamond
3.93 avg rating β 73,875 ratings 19. 
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World β and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
by:
Hans Rosling
4.36 avg rating β 197,302 ratings 
20. 
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
by:
David Graeber
4.19 avg rating β 24,328 ratings 20. 
Practicing Ethnohistory: Mining Archives, Hearing Testimony, Constructing Narrative 4.29 avg rating β 7 ratings
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Progress: How One Idea Built Civilization and Now Threatens to Destroy It 4.75 avg rating β 4 ratings
25. 
Selected works of Edgar Allan Poe: THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO, THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER, THE BLACK CAT
by:
Edgar Allan Poe
4.10 avg rating β 951 ratings 
25. 
Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention
by:
Ben Wilson
4.14 avg rating β 2,499 ratings 28. 
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A Walk in the Wood: Meditations on Mindfulness with a Bear Named Pooh
by:
Joseph Parent
3.93 avg rating β 1,677 ratings 28. 
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by:
Jared Diamond
4.04 avg rating β 445,070 ratings 28. 
Of Ice and Men: How We've Used Cold to Transform Humanity
by:
Fred Hogge
3.18 avg rating β 125 ratings 
32. 
Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version
by:
Philip Pullman
4.05 avg rating β 22,971 ratings 32. 
The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality
by:
Oded Galor
3.83 avg rating β 1,727 ratings 35. 
The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
by:
Angus Deaton
3.82 avg rating β 2,418 ratings 35. 
What I Lick Before Your Face ... and Other Haikus By Dogs
by:
Jamie Coleman
4.18 avg rating β 265 ratings 35. 
The Longbow, the Schooner & the Violin: Wood and Human Achievement
by:
Marq de Villiers
3.21 avg rating β 33 ratings 38. 
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
by:
James C. Scott
4.13 avg rating β 4,579 ratings 
38. 
The Good Doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Health Care
by:
John Dittmer
3.67 avg rating β 45 ratings 41. 
The World's Greatest Fix: A History of Nitrogen and Agriculture
by:
G.J. Leigh
4.22 avg rating β 9 ratings 41. 
An Album of Memories: Personal Histories from the Greatest Generation
by:
Tom Brokaw
4.17 avg rating β 453 ratings 41. 
A Better Ape: The Evolution of the Moral Mind and How it Made us Human
by:
Victor Kumar
3.48 avg rating β 29 ratings 
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After Shock: The Worldβs Foremost Futurists Reflect on 50 Years of Future Shockβand Look Ahead to the Next 50
by:
John Schroeter
3.40 avg rating β 43 ratings 47. 
Tropical Forests in Human Prehistory, History, and Modernity
by:
Patrick Roberts
3.67 avg rating β 3 ratings 50. 
53. 
A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy
by:
Joel Mokyr
3.89 avg rating β 311 ratings 53. 
The Book Woman's Daughter (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #2) 4.23 avg rating β 81,232 ratings
53. 
How the Mind Changed: A Human History of Our Evolving Brain
by:
Joseph Jebelli
4.06 avg rating β 309 ratings 56. 
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
by:
Daron AcemoΔlu
4.09 avg rating β 59,222 ratings 56. 
56. 
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve (The University Center for Human Values Series)
by:
Ian Morris
3.70 avg rating β 325 ratings 
61. 
Winnie-The-Pooh: The Tao of Pooh & the Te of Piglet
by:
Benjamin Hoff
4.13 avg rating β 13,720 ratings 
63. 
Hydrohumanities: Water Discourse and Environmental Futures
by:
Kim de Wolff
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 1 rating 65. 
Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450-1680: Volume One: The Lands below the Winds
by:
Anthony Reid
3.83 avg rating β 109 ratings 65. 
The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty
by:
Peter Singer
4.15 avg rating β 6,711 ratings 
68. 
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
by:
Amanda Gorman
4.54 avg rating β 34,667 ratings 68. 
70. 
Harvesting the Biosphere: What We Have Taken from Nature
by:
Vaclav Smil
3.72 avg rating β 139 ratings 
70. 
Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
by:
Gaia Vince
3.98 avg rating β 868 ratings 73. 
Cities and Economic Development: From the Dawn of History to the Present
by:
Paul Bairoch
3.56 avg rating β 18 ratings 73. 
Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States
by:
Dave Barry
3.95 avg rating β 5,818 ratings 73. 
What Is Paleolithic Art?: Cave Paintings and the Dawn of Human Creativity
by:
Jean Clottes
4.30 avg rating β 117 ratings 
76. 
Ultimate Visual History of the World: The Story of Humankind From Prehistory to Modern Times 4.29 avg rating β 103 ratings
79. 
The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain 1700-1850 (The New Economic History of Britain seri)
by:
Joel Mokyr
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 143 ratings 
82. 
The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy
by:
Joel Mokyr
3.98 avg rating β 121 ratings 
82. 
Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness
by:
Charles Foster
3.52 avg rating β 445 ratings 85. 
The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress
by:
Joel Mokyr
4.05 avg rating β 296 ratings 85. 
85. 
Kept from All Contagion: Germ Theory, Disease, and the Dilemma of Human Contact in Late Nineteenth-Century Literature
by:
Kari Nixon
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating 
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The Human Tradition in the Black Atlantic, 1500β2000 (The Human Tradition around the World series)
by:
Karen Racine
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 3 ratings 
93. 
Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human
by:
Rob Dunn
3.59 avg rating β 412 ratings 96. 
Feeding the World: A Challenge for the Twenty-First Century
by:
Vaclav Smil
4.21 avg rating β 52 ratings 
96. 
The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease
by:
Charles Kenny
3.74 avg rating β 934 ratings 99. 
The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
by:
Joseph Henrich
4.39 avg rating β 2,081 ratings 99. 
Theodor Seuss Geisel: The World War II Editorials (Graphic Novel)
by:
Dr. Seuss
4.33 avg rating β 6 ratings