Sapiens

Yuval Noah Harari’s sweeping history traces Homo sapiens from an unremarkable African ape to the dominant force on the planet. He organizes the story around three revolutions—cognitive, agricultural, and scientific—and argues that shared fictions like money, religion, and nations are what let strangers cooperate at scale. Provocative and wide-ranging, the book asks whether all our progress has actually made us happier. A global bestseller that reshaped how many readers see human history.