12 Best history books like Pocket Piketty: A Handy Guide to "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" by Jesper Roine

Cover of Pocket Piketty: A Handy Guide to "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" by Jesper Roine

Pocket Piketty: A Handy Guide to "Capital in the Twenty-First Century"

By: Jesper Roine

3.76

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

We all know the book: it’s been hailed as one of the most important documents on how the world econ…

If you liked the history plot in Pocket Piketty: A Handy Guide to "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" by Jesper Roine , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder, Paulette Møller

1. Sophie’s World

By: Jostein Gaarder , Paulette Møller

3.96

Format: 403 pages, Paperback

An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen c… read more

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"الذي يعرف الخير يفعل الخير"

-Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

"الأكثر ذكاء هو الذي يعرف أنه لا يعرف"

-Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

"Wisest is she who knows she does not know."

-Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

"It's not a silly question if you can't answer it."

-Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

Cover of The Plague by Albert Camus, Stuart Gilbert

2. The Plague

By: Albert Camus , Stuart Gilbert

4.02

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

The Plague is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947. It tells the story from the point of … read more

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"Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering."

-Albert Camus, The Plague

"The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits."

-Albert Camus, The Plague

"They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love."

-Albert Camus, The Plague

"I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold."

-Albert Camus, The Plague

Cover of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Roberto González Echevarría, John Rutherford

3. Don Quixote

By: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Roberto González Echevarría , John Rutherford

3.66

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances, that he determines to become a k… read more

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Cover of Das Kapital by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Serge L. Levitsky

4. Das Kapital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
Cover of Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber

5. Debt: The First 5,000 Years

By: David Graeber

3.61

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was inve… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
Cover of A Desumanização by Valter Hugo Mãe

6. A Desumanização

By: Valter Hugo Mãe

4.88

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

<> Passado nos reconditos fiordes islandeses, este romance e a voz de uma menina diferente que nos … read more

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Cover of Blue Ocean Strategy: How To Create Uncontested Market Space And Make The Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne

7. Blue Ocean Strategy: How To Create Uncontested Market Space And Make The Competition Irrelevant

By: W. Chan Kim , Renée Mauborgne

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
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8. Blankets

By: Craig Thompson

None

Format: 582 pages, Paperback

Blankets is the story of a young man coming of age and finding the confidence to express his creati… read more

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9. Capital in the Twenty-First Century

By: Thomas Piketty , Arthur Goldhammer

4.61

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions abou… read more

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10. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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11. Hegel: A Very Short Introduction

By: Peter Singer

4.19

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Hegel is regarded as one of the most influential figures on modern political and intellectual devel… read more

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12. Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition

By: Charles Eisenstein

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, reve… read more

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13. Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy

By: Sheryl Sandberg , Adam M. Grant , Adam Grant

3.93

Format: 512 pages,

From Facebook's COO and Wharton's top-rated professor, the #1 New York Timesbest-selling authors of… read more

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14. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

By: Timothy Snyder

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

An historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authorita… read more

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15. History Will Absolve Me

By: Fidel Castro

4.00

Format: 191 pages,

This is Fidel Castro's brilliant courtroom defense speech, offering a foretaste of the oratory for … read more

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16. The Fall

By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien

4.01

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searin… read more

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Cover of Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris   Miller

17. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

By: Chris Miller

4.44

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"

-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Cover of Serei sempre o teu abrigo by Valter Hugo Mãe

18. Serei sempre o teu abrigo

By: Valter Hugo Mãe

4.33

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

«O avô, resumido nos sentimentos, sem talento nas aflições, mais maniento e cheio de medo, só dizia… read more

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19. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

By: David Graeber

4.20

Format: 692 pages, Hardcover

A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

Cover of Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food by Chris van Tulleken

20. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food

By: Chris van Tulleken

4.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy by Stephanie Kelton

21. The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy

By: Stephanie Kelton

4.04

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Bestseller The leading thinker and most visible public advocate of modern monetary… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
Cover of The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Maté

22. The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

By: Gabor Maté

4.32

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the c… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon by Michael   Lewis

23. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

By: Michael Lewis

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 best-selling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the story of FTX’s spectacular col… read more

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  • history
  • economics
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi

24. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Comer/Beber by Filipe Melo

25. Comer/Beber

By: Filipe Melo

4.33

Format: 74 pages, Hardcover

Na Berlim dos anos 40, em plena Segunda Guerra Mundial, Franz Majowski esconde uma garrafa de champ… read more

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Cover of Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent by Dipo Faloyin

26. Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent

By: Dipo Faloyin

4.43

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

Africa Is Not A Country is a bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful ster… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill  Gates

27. How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

By: Bill Gates

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing … read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment by Francis Fukuyama

28. Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment

By: Francis Fukuyama

3.85

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Origins of Political Order offers a provocative examin… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Who am I, really?"

-Francis Fukuyama, Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment

"The focus on lived experience by identity groups valorizes inner selves experienced emotionally rather than examined rationally. Notes one observer, “Our political culture is marked, at the micro lev…"

-Francis Fukuyama, Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment

"Confusion over identity arises as a condition of living in the modern world. Modernization means constant change and disruption, and the opening up of choices that did not exist before. It is mobile,…"

-Francis Fukuyama, Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment

"But as important as material self-interest is, human beings are motivated by other things as well, motives that better explain the disparate events of the present. This might be called the politics o…"

-Francis Fukuyama, Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment

Cover of Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green by Henry Sanderson

29. Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green

By: Henry Sanderson

4.12

Format: 304 pages, ebook

'A remarkably hopeful and useful book...The climate crisis leaves us no choice but to build a new w… read more

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  • history
  • economics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Harold Wilson: The Winner by Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds

30. Harold Wilson: The Winner

By: Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds

4.06

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

Using previously restricted materials, Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds examines one of the most influential… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Pocket Piketty: A Handy Guide to "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" by Jesper Roine

31. Pocket Piketty: A Handy Guide to "Capital in the Twenty-First Century"

By: Jesper Roine

3.76

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

We all know the book: it’s been hailed as one of the most important documents on how the world econ… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history

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Transform Your Habits

Das Kapital

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

David Graeber

3.61

Transform Your Habits

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Chris Miller

4.44

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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

David Graeber

4.20

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Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

Morgan Housel

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall

Zeke Faux

4.26

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Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

Michael Lewis

3.80

Transform Your Habits

The Trading Game: A Confession

Gary Stevenson

4.26

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