Niche book list quest: i want to create a popular book list…
Niche book list quest: i want to create a popular book list for each century of history. what's the best pop book for second century? fifteenth? how do i define pop? can it be found at a local library? better, can it be found in the audiobook section of a local library.
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I'm thinking of the ilk like A World Lit Only By Fire or Guns, Germs, and Steel (but please not that). Historical fiction could serve as well, like Eco's Name of the Rose.
Some books may not be directed at general overviews but give them by accident in their contextualization of their subject.
https://twitter.com/evansmithhist/status/1355367173053587457
Graeber and Wengrow, Dawn of Everything
Not Harari, please
Edith Hamilton, Mythology
Pandora's Jar
I could reference my comprehensive exams lists which have lots of large general tomes... but are they popular?
Greenblatt, The Swerve