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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari

Seventy thousand years of human history, argued rather than recited.

Harari runs from the cognitive revolution through agriculture, empire, money, and science, with the recurring claim that shared fictions — nations, religions, corporations — are what let large numbers of strangers cooperate. Sweeping and contested, which is part of why it sells.