Guns, germs, and steel

Jared M. Diamond

1997 ★ 4.1

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

2006 ★ 3.9

A Canticle for Leibowitz

Волтер Майкл Міллер-молодший, Walter M. Miller Jr.

1960 ★ 3.9

Crispin--The Cross of Lead

Avi, Ron Keith

2002 ★ 3.4

The story of mankind

Hendrik Willem Van Loon

1922

Candide

Voltaire

1759 ★ 4.0

The world until yesterday

Jared M. Diamond, Efrén del Valle Peñamil

2012 ★ 3.6

The Dawn of Everything

David Graeber, David Wengrow

2021 ★ 4.1

The White Album

Joan Didion

1979 ★ 3.7

The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton

1920 ★ 3.5

The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind

Julian Jaynes

1976 ★ 4.0

Notes from a small island

Bill Bryson

1996 ★ 3.8

How the Scots invented the Modern World

Arthur Herman

2001 ★ 4.0

Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen

Johan Huizinga

1924 ★ 4.8

Borderlands/La Frontera

Gloria Anzaldúa

1987 ★ 4.1

The ornament of the world

Maria Rosa Menocal

2002 ★ 4.7

1491

Charles C. Mann

2005 ★ 4.3

The Egypt game

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

1967 ★ 4.9

A day in the life of ancient Rome

Alberto Angela

2009 ★ 4.7

πολιτεία

Plato

1763 ★ 3.8

Homo Ludens

Johan Huizinga

1950 ★ 4.6

Buddenbrooks

Thomas Mann

1909 ★ 3.8

War! What is it good for?

Ian Morris

2014 ★ 3.7

Destiny disrupted

Tamim Ansary, Mir Tamim Ansary

2009 ★ 4.2

A short history of progress

Ronald Wright

2004 ★ 3.8

Babylon

Paul Kriwaczek

2012 ★ 3.3

Pacific

Simon Winchester

2015 ★ 3.7

Does It Matter?

Alan Watts

1970 ★ 4.0

A Letter Concerning Toleration

Patrick Romanell, Kerry Walters, John Locke et al.

1955 ★ 4.0

The Story of Civilization I

Will Durant

1935 ★ 4.0