| 01 | Guns, Germs, and Steel | 42.3 |
| 02 | Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind | 39.4 |
| 03 | Jared Diamond | 39.3 |
| 04 | Maps of Time by David Christian | 35.0 |
| 05 | Yuval Noah Harari | 31.9 |
| 06 | The Big Picture | 23.7 |
| 07 | The World: A Brief History of the Global System | 22.4 |
| 08 | Sean Carroll's Mindscape Podcast | 21.2 |
| 09 | Why Nations Fail | 20.8 |
| 10 | Daron Acemoglu | 20.5 |
| 11 | James A. Robinson | 20.3 |
| 12 | Big History | 20.0 |
| 13 | Richard Haass | 19.9 |
| 14 | A Short History of Nearly Everything | 19.8 |
| 15 | Thinking, Fast and Slow | 19.8 |
| 16 | Bill Bryson | 19.6 |
| 17 | Daniel Kahneman | 19.5 |
| 18 | The Lessons of History | 17.7 |
| 19 | Will Durant | 16.9 |
| 20 | Ariel Durant | 16.3 |
| 21 | Freakonomics | 15.8 |
| 22 | Cynthia Stokes Brown | 15.4 |
| 23 | Steven D. Levitt | 15.4 |
| 24 | Mark Manson | 15.0 |
| 25 | Stephen J. Dubner | 15.0 |
| 26 | The Undercover Economist | 14.7 |
| 27 | Tim Harford | 14.4 |
| 28 | The Price of Peace | 14.2 |
| 29 | The Dictator’s Handbook | 13.5 |
| 30 | Bruce Bueno de Mesquita | 13.3 |