A collection of non fiction to understand the history of the world and why and how we got here!
created by lenni
last updated January, 2026
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
Howard Zinn
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America
Chris Hedges
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Mikki Kendall
Dark Emu
Bruce Pascoe
See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence
Jess Hill
Who Gets to Be Smart: Privilege, Power and Knowledge
Bri Lee
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: The Case Against Superintelligent AI
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs – 10th Anniversary Edition
Johann Hari
War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
Hot Money
Naomi Klein
Cosmos
Carl Sagan
The Story of Art Without Men
Katy Hessel
The Dictators: 64 Dictators, 64 Authors, 64 Warnings from History
Iain Dale
The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction
Henry Gee
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
David Graeber
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
Donovan X. Ramsey
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