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Front cover of A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

A Short History of Nearly Everything

by Bill Bryson

Read it if you were put off science at school but still wonder how the world really works.

Coming soon

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Humankind by Rutger Bregman
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Range by David Epstein
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Factfulness by Hans Rosling
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Quiet by Susan Cain
Educated by Tara Westover