The Human Story
Ever feel like society's just one big, chaotic reality show? This journey spills the tea on how humanity went from throwing rocks to launching rockets. Seriously, it's the ultimate backstage pass to understanding our wild past and where we're probably, maybe, definitely headed next.
Top 50 Books for The Human Story
Our top recommendations for this topic.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Discover the shocking truth about medical ethics!
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Uncover Cancer's Epic Story!
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century's Most Crucial Dilemmas
AI Will Change Everything
The Gene: An Intimate History
Unlock Your DNA Secrets
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Why The World Is Better
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
We Broke Earth, Now What?
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Understand Our Wild World
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
What Happens After Humans Win?
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Science Is Not What You Think
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
Your Body's Secret History Revealed
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Think Like A Genius
A Brief History of Time
Understand the universe's biggest mysteries easily!
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
Unlock Your Inner Beast Mode
When Breath Becomes Air
What Makes Life Worth Living? Find Out Now!
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Discover Why Some Societies Conquered Others!
Why We Sleep
Discover The Shocking Truth About Sleep!
The Gulag Archipelago
Uncover Hidden Human Resilience
Man's Search for Meaning
Find Your Purpose, Change Everything
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Discover the Shocking Story of Humanity!
Just Mercy
The Justice System Is Broken
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Live Better, Die Better
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
Edit Your Genes, Change Life!
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Why We Do That
Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To
Unlock Your Immortality Code
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Spot Fake News Like A Pro
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
Learn Smarter, Not Harder
Educated
Escape Your Past, Forge Your Own Future!
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Why Societies Collapse (or Thrive)
Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
Level Up Your Brain Power
The Extended Phenotype
Your Genes Are Mind-Blowing
Debt: The First 5000 Years
Money Is Not What You Think
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
Stop Lying To Yourself
Cosmos
Mind Blown By Space
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
See The World Differently Now
Outliers
Discover the Secrets of Success and High Achievement!
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Connect With Earth Now
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
Your Brain's Secret Life Revealed
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Uncover America's Hidden Journey
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Mind Blown: Universe Explained!
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Unlock Your Mind's Secrets
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Uncover America's Hidden Hierarchy
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Unlock Your Inner Main Character
Becoming Supernatural
Unlock Your Inner Power
The Psychology of Totalitarianism
Understand Mass Formation Now
Status Anxiety
Stop Stressing What Others Think
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Trust Your Gut, Win Life
Poverty, by America
Why America Stays So Poor
The Design of Everyday Things
Why Everything Is So Annoying
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
History Is All Wrong
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
Unlock Your Breath's Superpowers