Yuval Noah Harari's sweeping history traces how an unremarkable primate came to dominate the planet—and whether our success has made us any happier. He frames human history through three turning points: the Cognitive Revolution, when we learned to unite around shared fictions like gods, nations, and money; the Agricultural Revolution, which brought surplus and cities but also hierarchy and toil; and the Scientific Revolution, which fused discovery, capitalism, and empire into an engine of endless growth.

Harari’s argument is both unsettling and energizing: progress runs on imagination, but every imagined order—from religion to the market—extracts its price in inequality and ecological strain. Blending history, biology, and philosophy, Sapiens invites us to see our species as a work in progress, still driven by myths of our own making—and to ask what kind of stories will guide humanity’s next chapter.