20 Best nonfiction books like Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari

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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

By: Yuval Noah Harari

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove…

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Cover of A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains by Max Solomon Bennett

1. A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains

By: Max Solomon Bennett

4.46

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Equal parts Sapiens , Behave, and Superintelligence , but wholly original in scope, A Brief History… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • artificial intelligence
  • nonfiction
  • technology
Cover of The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma by Mustafa Suleyman

2. The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

By: Mustafa Suleyman

3.86

Format: 332 pages, Hardcover

A warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global … read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • politics
  • artificial intelligence
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • technology
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3. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

By: Ethan Mollick

4.13

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more

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  • science
  • technology
  • artificial intelligence
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present by Fareed Zakaria

4. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

By: Fareed Zakaria

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. Playground

By: Richard Powers

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of T… read more

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6. How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History

By: Josephine Quinn

4.12

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

An award-winning Oxford history professor overturns the way the West thinks about itself, tracing i… read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI by Ray Kurzweil

7. The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI

By: Ray Kurzweil

3.93

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explor… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • artificial intelligence
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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8. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

Cover of Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence by Sara Imari Walker

9. Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence

By: Sara Imari Walker

4.06

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

None read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything by Nate Silver

10. On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything

By: Nate Silver

3.84

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
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Cover of Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari

11. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

By: Yuval Noah Harari

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • history
  • world history
  • politics
  • artificial intelligence
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • technology
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12. On Freedom

By: Timothy Snyder

4.40

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant exploration of freedom—what it is, how it’s been misunderstood, and why it’s our only c… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World by William Dalrymple

13. The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World

By: William Dalrymple

4.38

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

For most of its modern history, India was fated to be on the receiving end of cultural influence fr… read more

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  • history
  • world history
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  • audiobook
Cover of Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts by Oliver Burkeman

14. Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts

By: Oliver Burkeman

4.51

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From Oliver Burkeman, author of the New York Times bestseller Four Thousand Weeks, a four-week jour… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World by Parmy Olson

15. Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World

By: Parmy Olson

4.12

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In November of 2022, a webpage was posted online with a simple text box. It was an AI chatbot calle… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
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  • artificial intelligence
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • technology
Cover of Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering by Malcolm Gladwell

16. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering

By: Malcolm Gladwell

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns … read more

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  • science
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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17. War

By: Bob Woodward

4.43

Format: 441 pages, Kindle Edition

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"President Trump had secretly sent Putin a bunch of Abbott Point of Care Covid test machines for his personal use as the virus spread rapidly through Russia."

-Bob Woodward, War

"Overall, Hamas killed more than 1,200 Israelis and dragged more than 240 hostages and back across the border into underground tunnels in Gaza. It was the deadliest attack in Jewish history since the …"

-Bob Woodward, War

"In the 2020 election, Trump received 74 million votes, more than any presidential candidate in history with the exception of Joe Biden, who won 81 million votes. Biden secured the Electoral College w…"

-Bob Woodward, War

"The second high-profile Trump critis was retired General Stanley McChrystal, who had commanded U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan a decade earlier. McChrystal had recently appeared on CNN and called…"

-Bob Woodward, War

Cover of AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference by Arvind Narayanan

18. AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference

By: Arvind Narayanan

3.92

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

Confused about AI and worried about what it means for your future and the future of the world? You'… read more

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  • science
  • artificial intelligence
  • nonfiction
  • technology
Cover of The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie by Richard Dawkins

19. The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie

By: Richard Dawkins

4.25

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

One of the world's great science writers and a book that reflects on the vast arc of evolutionary … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
  • audiobook
Cover of Money: A Story of Humanity by David McWilliams

20. Money: A Story of Humanity

By: David McWilliams

4.26

Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition

MONEY.The object of our desires.The engine of our genius.Humanity’s greatest invention. Whether we … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Tribal: Mastering the Cultural Codes That Drive Human Behavior by Michael Morris

21. Tribal: Mastering the Cultural Codes That Drive Human Behavior

By: Michael Morris

3.84

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A renowned Columbia Business School professor and cultural psychologist explains the deep roots of … read more

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  • audiobook

18 must-read audiobook books like Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari

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The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

Mustafa Suleyman

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

Ethan Mollick

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

Fareed Zakaria

4.23

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How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History

Josephine Quinn

4.12

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Transform Your Habits

Nuclear War: A Scenario

Annie Jacobsen

4.47

Transform Your Habits

The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

Mustafa Suleyman

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)

Salman Khan

3.74

Transform Your Habits

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Bill Maher

4.27

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