These two are worthy of your time…
I liked Sapiens, but found its successor Homo Deus to be a 500-page puff piece for Google and Apple.
Guns, Germs, and Steel was also very good, if a bit too technologically determinist.
William McNeil’s Plagues and People is an example that was ground-breaking when it came out in 1976, but is now in “yeah, everybody knows that” territory.
The section on how we’ve overcome plague and reduced it to a non-threat in Hariri’s Homo Deus contributed to my early feelings that corona virus would turn out to be a greatly overblown threat. Ooops.
Both books are insightful and thought provoking!