| 01 | Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind | 62.7 |
| 02 | How the World Really Works: A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present, and Future | 44.4 |
| 03 | Guns, Germs, and Steel | 44.2 |
| 04 | Thinking, Fast and Slow | 42.7 |
| 05 | The Silk Roads: A New History of the World | 29.8 |
| 06 | A Short History of Nearly Everything | 29.2 |
| 07 | The Big Picture | 26.9 |
| 08 | Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present | 23.7 |
| 09 | Freakonomics | 21.5 |
| 10 | The Lessons of History | 20.3 |
| 11 | Prisoners of Geography | 20.0 |
| 12 | Why Nations Fail | 18.7 |
| 13 | Poor Economics | 17.7 |
| 14 | The Righteous Mind | 16.9 |
| 15 | Amusing Ourselves to Death | 15.8 |
| 16 | The Dictator’s Handbook | 15.0 |
| 17 | The Origins of Political Order | 14.7 |
| 18 | A People’s History of the United States | 14.2 |
| 19 | Capital in the Twenty-First Century | 13.8 |
| 20 | The Narrow Corridor | 13.6 |
| 21 | Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare | 13.5 |
| 22 | Behave | 13.5 |
| 23 | The Structure of Scientific Revolutions | 13.3 |
| 24 | The Sixth Extinction | 13.3 |
| 25 | Cosmos | 13.2 |
| 26 | The Shallows | 13.0 |
| 27 | The Master Switch | 12.9 |
| 28 | The Dawn of Everything | 11.8 |
| 29 | Humankind: A Hopeful History | 10.5 |
| 30 | The Anxious Generation | 10.2 |