A short history of nearly everything

Bill Bryson

2003 ★ 4.2

Origin

Dan Brown

2017 ★ 3.7

On the origin of species by means of natural selection

Charles Darwin

1860 ★ 4.3

1491

Charles C. Mann

2005 ★ 4.3

The ascent of money

Niall Ferguson

2009 ★ 4.0

The Greatest Show on Earth

Richard Dawkins

2009 ★ 4.5

What is life? The physical aspect of the living cell

Erwin Schrödinger, Roger Penrose

1945 ★ 4.7

Anansi the Spider

Gerald McDermott

1986 ★ 4.5

The Big Picture

Sean M. Carroll

2016 ★ 3.9

The Inheritors

William Golding

1964

The Anunnaki chronicles

Zecharia Sitchin

2015

The vital question

Nick Lane

2001

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived

Adam Rutherford, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Elizabeth Garay

2016 ★ 4.1

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

Ann Druyan, Carl Sagan

1992 ★ 4.3

Against the Grain

James C. Scott

2017 ★ 4.7

The sacred mushroom and the cross

John Marco Allegro

1970

The Unfolding of Language

Guy Deutscher

2005 ★ 4.8

The descent of man

Charles Darwin

1871

The Wars of Gods and Men

Zecharia Sitchin

1999

Contract Law

Ewan McKendrick

2007

The prehistory of the mind

Steven J. Mithen

1996

Supernatural

Graham Hancock

2005

The Invention of tradition

Eric Hobsbawm, Terence O. Ranger

1983 ★ 4.0

The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex

Charles Darwin

1870

The origins of human society

Peter I. Bogucki

1999

Vie de Jésus

Ernest Renan

1863

The power of Babel

John H. McWhorter

2001

Symbiosis in cell evolution

Lynn Margulis

1981

The Immense Journey

Loren C. Eiseley

1957

Cannibals and kings

Marvin Harris

1977 ★ 4.3