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I asked, "What's the best history book you've ever read?"

I received 300+ responses.

Here are 20 books that will help you understand the world and how we got here:

1/

Sapiens

by @harari_yuval

amzn.to/34UzDXO

2/

The Lessons of History

by Ariel Durant & Will Durant

amzn.to/3h4moX6

3/

Guns, Germs, and Steel

by Jared Diamond

amzn.to/35dzMFw

4/

A Brief History of Nearly Everything

by @billbrysonn

amzn.to/3I7QcOt

5/

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

by Jack Weatherford

amzn.to/3h4FIU4

6/

1776

by David McCullough

amzn.to/3t2FsL0

7/

A Little History of the World

by E. H. Gombrich

amzn.to/36nnZFb

8/

The Guns of August

by Barbara W. Tuchman

amzn.to/3v1vxYF

9/

The Silk Roads

by @peterfrankopan

amzn.to/3BLa8Es

10/

The Invention of Nature

by @andrea_wulf

amzn.to/33BMb5G

11/

The Ascent of Money

by @nfergus

amzn.to/34QGVfl

12/

An Ancestor’s Tale

by @RichardDawkins

amzn.to/3s2qoxw

13/

Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee

by Dee Brown

amzn.to/33FGKmo

14/

The Dawn of Everything

by @davidgraeber & @davidwengrow

amzn.to/3H1tpCl

15/

A People's History of the United States

by Howard Zinn

amzn.to/3s4gYBt

16/

How to Hide an Empire

by @dimmerwahr

amzn.to/3JLebDA

17/

The Warmth of Other Suns

by @Isabelwilkerson

amzn.to/3H70Qn2

18/

The March of Folly

by Barbara W. Tuchman

amzn.to/3BCVwH2

19/

SPQR

by @wmarybeard

amzn.to/3JCpPjQ

20/

Lies My Teacher Told Me

by @JamesWLoewen

amzn.to/3I6YDt3

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