I asked, "What's the best history book you've ever read?"

I received 300+ responses.

Here are 20 books that will help you understand the world and how we got here:

1/

Sapiens

by @harari_yuval

https://t.co/lUZQ84rpDX
2/

The Lessons of History

by Ariel Durant & Will Durant

https://t.co/yJs2qN3acr
3/

Guns, Germs, and Steel

by Jared Diamond

https://t.co/rKFBcptM8b
4/

A Brief History of Nearly Everything

by @billbrysonn

https://t.co/Ndl6r8sQfz
5/

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

by Jack Weatherford

https://t.co/jSUFMSWxjj
6/

1776

by David McCullough

https://t.co/zoQS8ovRrf
7/

A Little History of the World

by E. H. Gombrich

https://t.co/GDetb4Rg4w
8/

The Guns of August

by Barbara W. Tuchman

https://t.co/ONTm2A3TCh
9/

The Silk Roads

by @peterfrankopan

https://t.co/CABoaCsfn3
10/

The Invention of Nature

by @andrea_wulf

https://t.co/Fw4jccq244
11/

The Ascent of Money

by @nfergus

https://t.co/MMJZ15LCCO
12/

An Ancestor’s Tale

by @RichardDawkins

https://t.co/mKUnijhRnc
13/

Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee

by Dee Brown

https://t.co/D4rCfWZYQh
14/

The Dawn of Everything

by @davidgraeber & @davidwengrow

https://t.co/SrG8it8Jv0
15/

A People's History of the United States

by Howard Zinn

https://t.co/42OPvfgcF0
16/

How to Hide an Empire

by @dimmerwahr

https://t.co/hxQ4iYzJHy
17/

The Warmth of Other Suns

by @Isabelwilkerson

https://t.co/2HXurjb2pa
18/

The March of Folly

by Barbara W. Tuchman

https://t.co/yeZ8yV69y8
19/

SPQR

by @wmarybeard

https://t.co/IuPqyyBdOG
20/

Lies My Teacher Told Me

by @JamesWLoewen

https://t.co/6zFjSjvBnl
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