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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.04 — 467,792 ratings — published 1997
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,392 ratings — published 2004
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,305,929 ratings — published 2011
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 31 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.18 — 293,301 ratings — published 2015
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.15 — 180,868 ratings — published 2018
Civilization: The West and the Rest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.86 — 10,431 ratings — published 2011
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.78 — 14,298 ratings — published 1996
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,071,301 ratings — published 2006
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,277,510 ratings — published 1954
The Collapse of Complex Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,542 ratings — published 1988
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
by (shelved 18 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.07 — 134,980 ratings — published 2009
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.19 — 28,029 ratings — published 2021
Reliquary (Pendergast, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.04 — 51,475 ratings — published 1997
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.75 — 13,652 ratings — published 2014
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.08 — 65,824 ratings — published 2012
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.29 — 82,215 ratings — published 1995
Stranger in a Strange Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.92 — 329,411 ratings — published 1961
Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,209 ratings — published 2006
Our Oriental Heritage (The Story of Civilization, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.30 — 3,684 ratings — published 1935
Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis (Civilizations Rise and Fall, #3)
by (shelved 11 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.90 — 11,857 ratings — published 2019
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.21 — 27,944 ratings — published 2011
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.05 — 97,301 ratings — published 2005
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.16 — 51,100 ratings — published 2015
Weslandia (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,121 ratings — published 1999
Story of Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,824 ratings — published 1975
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,902 ratings — published 2010
The Evolution of Civilizations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.39 — 320 ratings — published 1961
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,084 ratings — published 2017
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.78 — 11,243 ratings — published 2012
Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.01 — 105,923 ratings — published 1992
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.19 — 32,889 ratings — published 2018
The Decline of the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,306 ratings — published 1918
Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,026 ratings — published 2010
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,331,009 ratings — published 2011
A History of Civilizations (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,229 ratings — published 1963
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,667 ratings — published 2000
How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.81 — 47,340 ratings — published 1995
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,127,601 ratings — published 1932
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.21 — 431,481 ratings — published 2003
Energy and Civilization: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,235 ratings — published 2017
The Lessons of History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.05 — 21,323 ratings — published 1968
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,765 ratings — published 2007
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,570 ratings — published 2011
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.88 — 35,870 ratings — published 2011
Civilisation (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,903 ratings — published 1969
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,245 ratings — published 1860
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.18 — 351,541 ratings — published 1995
A Short History of Progress (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,505 ratings — published 2004
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.16 — 52,056 ratings — published 2024
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,309 ratings — published 2022
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