Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari (Hardcover)

The story of humankind from scattered bands of apes to rulers of the planet. Harari explains how shared stories like money, religion and nations let us cooperate at scale, and what that cost us.

Read it if: you want to zoom all the way out and see the whole human game at once.

Third Shelf — a heavyweight. Save it for when your attention is back in shape.