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Sapiens
by Yuval Noah Harari · 2011
Yuval Noah Harari's broad history of Homo sapiens and large-scale human cooperation.
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Sapiens appears in 2 currently documented source-backed recommendations.
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Documented citation: Business Insider reports Sapiens as Zuckerberg's A Year of Books selection.
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Mark Zuckerberg recommends Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Business Insider · 2015-06 · accessed 2026-06-21
Business Insider reports Sapiens as Zuckerberg's A Year of Books pick and links his Facebook explanation.
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Sapiens
Both sobering and conservatively optimistic in equal measure
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One Grand Books · 2017-07-17 · accessed 2026-06-22
One Grand Books publishes Daniel Ek's top-ten books page with first-person blurbs for each listed book.
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Documented citation: Public indexes report Hassabis saying Sapiens gave him many new ideas.
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Demis Hassabis interview mentioning Sapiens
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YouTube · timestamp 35:23 · accessed 2026-06-21
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