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Books like Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

12 books with a reading profile close to Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari. Deep and outward-looking; a moderate read.

1

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

by Christopher Hitchens

Also outward-looking · history, analytical

Christopher Hitchens argues that organized religion is a human invention that harms social progress and intellectual honesty.
2

Ways of Seeing

by John Berger

Also deep · analytical, philosophy

John Berger examines how the invention of the camera altered the perception of European oil painting by detaching images from their original physical contexts.
3

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

by Neil Postman

Also deep · analytical, philosophy

Neil Postman argues that the medium of communication determines the quality of public thought.
4

Other Minds

by Peter Godfrey-Smith

Also deep · analytical, philosophy

In this study of evolutionary biology, Peter Godfrey-Smith traces the development of subjective experience by examining the cephalopod nervous system.
5

Nexus A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

by Yuval Noah Harari

Also deep and outward-looking · history, analytical

In Nexus, Yuval Noah Harari examines how information networks function as a mechanism for social control and institutional structure rather than merely a path to truth.
6

Are Prisons Obsolete?

by Angela Y. Davis

Also deep and outward-looking · history, analytical

Angela Davis argues for the total abolition of the prison system, asserting that incarceration serves as a tool for social control rather than a solution to crime.
7

Nexus

by Yuval Noah Harari

Also outward-looking · history, analytical

Nexus examines the historical relationship between information networks and the survival of social structures.
8

A History of Western Philosophy

by Bertrand Russell

Also deep and outward-looking · history, analytical

Bertrand Russell details the evolution of logical thought from the Pre-Socratics through the rise of logical analysis in the early twentieth century.
9

Small is Beautiful

by Ernst Friedrich Schumacher

Also deep and outward-looking · analytical, philosophy

Ernst Friedrich Schumacher challenges the pursuit of infinite growth by proposing an economic model centered on human scale and environmental permanence.
10

Free Will

by Sam Harris

Also deep · analytical, philosophy

Sam Harris argues that the feeling of conscious agency is a biological illusion.
11

Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

by Mark Fisher

Also deep · analytical, philosophy

Mark Fisher examines the pervasive ideological belief that global capitalism is the only viable political and economic system left.
12

Women & Power: A Manifesto

by Mary Beard

history, analytical

In this manifesto, classicist Mary Beard traces the historical roots of female silence back to ancient Greek and Roman literature.

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