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“Interesting and provocative. . . . It gives you a sense of how briefly we’ve been on this Earth.”
—Barack Obama
“I would recommend Sapiens to anyone who’s interested in the history and future of our species.”
—Bill Gates
“Sapiens is learned, thought-provoking, and crisply written. . . . Fascinating.”
—Wall Street Journal
“One of my favorite writers and thinkers. . . . He will blow your mind with how he tells our human history and looks into our future.”
—Natalie Portman
“Yuval Noah Harari’s celebrated Sapiens does for human evolution what Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time did for physics. . . . He does a superb job of outlining our slow emergence and eventual domination, of the planet.”
—Forbes
“It is one of the best accounts by a Homo sapiens of the unlikely story of our violent, accomplished species. . . . It is one hell of a story. And it has seldom been told better. . . . Compulsively readable and impossibly learned.”
—Washington Post
“This was the most surprising and thought-provoking book I read this year.”
—The Atlantic
“It altered how I view our species and our world.”
—The Guardian (London)
“An absorbing, provocative history of civilization . . . packed with heretical thinking and surprising facts. This riveting, myth-busting book cannot be summarized . . . you will simply have to read it.”
—Financial Times (London)
“[S]urprisingly impactful on understanding day-to-day life.”
—Politico
“A must-read for any human—or aspiring bot.”
—Wired
“Harari’s account of how we conquered the Earth astonishes with its scope and imagination. . . . One of those rare books that lives up to the publisher’s blurb . . . brilliantly clear, witty, and erudite.”
—The Observer (London)
“Harari’s writing radiates power and clarity, making the world strange and new.”
—Sunday Times (London)
“This title is one of the exceptional works of nonfiction that is both highly intellectual and compulsively readable. . . . A fascinating, hearty read.”
—Library Journal (starred review)
“An encyclopedic approach from a well-versed scholar who is concise but eloquent, both skeptical and opinionated, and open enough to entertain competing points of view. . . . The great debates of history aired out with satisfying vigor.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Writing with wit and verve, Harari . . . attempts to explain how Homo sapiens came to be the dominant species on Earth as well as the sole representative of the human genus. . . . Provocative and entertaining.”
—Publishers Weekly
“It’s not often that a book offers readers the possibility to reconsider, well, everything. But that’s what Harari does in this sweeping look at the history of humans. . . . Readers of every stripe should put this at the top of their reading lists. Thinking has never been so enjoyable.”
—Booklist (starred review)
“Thank God someone finally wrote [this] exact book.”
—Sebastian Junger
“Tackles the biggest questions of history and of the modern world, and it is written in unforgettably vivid language. You will love it.”
—Jared Diamond
“In Sapiens, Harari delves deep into our history as a species to help us understand who we are and what made us this way. An engrossing read.”
—Dan Ariely
“Consistently engaging. . . . Harari writes prose that leaps from the page.”
—New Statesman