Hacker News Books

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Jared Diamond Ph.D.

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

Dava Sobel

The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

Malcolm Gladwell and Pushkin Industries

Energy and Civilization: A History (The MIT Press)

Vaclav Smil

Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

Robert D. Putnam

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition

Jared Diamond

The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World

Vincent Bevins, Tim Paige, et al.

Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork

Reeves Wiedeman

Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World (Politics of Place)

Tim Marshall

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

Daniel Immerwahr

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

Jane Mayer

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Ibram X. Kendi, Christopher Dontrell Piper, et al.

In Cold Blood

Truman Capote

A History of the World in 6 Glasses

Tom Standage