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Books Like Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari · about this book

Loved Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari? If its nonfiction, history and evolution hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation and When God Was a Woman. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

What’s inside Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind: Nonfiction · History · Evolution · Popular Science · Anthropology

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   The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival

   John Bagot Glubb

   History · Ancient History · Economic History · Colonial History · Sociology

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   Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

   Silvia Federici

   History · Colonial History · Sociology · Economic History · Philosophy

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   When God Was a Woman

   Merlin Stone

   Anthropology · History · Ancient History · Sociology · Nonfiction

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   The Mexican Heartland: How Communities Shaped Capitalism, a Nation, and World History, 1500–2000

   John Tutino

   History · Economics · Colonial History · Nonfiction · Sociology

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   The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

   Ned Blackhawk

   History · Anthropology · Colonial History · Nonfiction · Sociology

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   A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

   Kelly Weinersmith

   Popular Science · Biology · Sociology · Nonfiction · Economics

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   The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present

   David Treuer

   History · Colonial History · Sociology · Nonfiction · Sprawling Epic

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   The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630–1865

   Mark Peterson

   History · Economic History · Colonial History · Nonfiction · Sprawling Epic

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   The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

   Walter Isaacson

   Popular Science · Biology · Nonfiction · Philosophy · Sprawling Epic

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    The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft

    Ronald Hutton

    History · Anthropology · Sociology · Nonfiction · Religion & Spirituality

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    A Disability History of the United States

    Kim E. Nielsen

    History · Colonial History · Sociology · Nonfiction · Slavery History

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    An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

    Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

    History · Colonial History · Nonfiction · Sociology · Slavery History

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    The Warmth of Other Suns

    Isabel Wilkerson

    History · Sociology · Economic History · Nonfiction · Sprawling Epic

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    Making the Monster: The Science Behind Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Bloomsbury Sigma)

    Kathryn Harkup

    Popular Science · Biology · History · Nonfiction

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    A Queer History of the United States

    Michael Bronski

    History · Sociology · Colonial History · Nonfiction · Politics

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    Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100

    Michio Kaku

    Popular Science · Technology History · Nonfiction · Economics · Genetics

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    Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire

    Julian Sancton

    History · Colonial History · Economic History · Nonfiction · Colonialism

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    King Hancock

    Brooke Barbier

    History · Colonial History · Economic History · Nonfiction · Politics

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    Orishas, Goddesses, and Voodoo Queens

    Lilith Dorsey

    Anthropology · Nonfiction · Colonial History · Religion & Spirituality · History

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    An African American and Latinx History of the United States

    Paul Ortiz

    History · Colonial History · Nonfiction · Slavery History · Politics

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