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How we got here, argued properly. Ancient worlds, world wars, and the long stretches in between.
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The Story of Art
Ernst Hans Gombrich
Empire of Pain
Patrick Radden Keefe
Postwar
Tony Judt
The Iliad
Homer
Trick Mirror
Jia Tolentino
Notes from a Small Island
Bill Bryson
Salt: A World History
Mark Kurlansky
Caste
Isabel Wilkerson
The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
Ulysses
James Joyce
A Promised Land
Barack Obama
Guns Germs and Steel
Jared Diamond
Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Gene
Siddhartha Mukherjee
A Distant Mirror
Barbara W. Tuchman
Northern Lights
Philip Pullman
The Guns of August
Barbara W. Tuchman
The Sleepwalkers
Christopher Clark
Dreams from My Father
Barack Obama
Hiroshima
John Hersey
Stalingrad
Antony Beevor
The Body
Bill Bryson
Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell