A Brief History of Humankind

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari is an anthropological masterpiece on how humanity came to be. You will learn how we went from running on savannas to driving cars, how we (probably) formed religion, why we “defeated” the other six species of humans, and why gossip is so important to us.

Thinking, Fast and Slow

DANIEL KAHNEMAN

If you really want to study books which make you smarter, you can’t go wrong learning how the mind works. In his groundbreaking work, Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel winner in economics, explains the two systems your mind uses. He shows the advantages and pitfalls of thinking fast, with emotion and intuition, versus thinking slow, with deliberation and logic. Learning to balance these two systems will help you improve your decision-making process.

The Selfish Gene

 The Selfish Gene explains the process of evolution in biology using genes as its basic unit, showing how they manifest in the form of organisms, what they do to ensure their own survival, how they program our brains, which strategies have worked best throughout history and what makes humans so .

Guns,Germs, and Steel

Guns, Germs, and Steel focus on the different environments and geographic locations where people have lived and how this has affected their advancement of technology. The book is a masterpiece of comparative history. On one level, it provides an absorbing account of the rise of European power and dominance.

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer” by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence.