Many of the Science News staff’s favorite books of the year challenge how we understand the world, from rethinking human history to reimagining the toilet. For a satisfying read, you can’t go wrong with any of these books, including a couple by our Science News colleagues. Find in-depth reviews here.
The Dawn of Everything
David Graeber and David Wengrow
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
$35
This provocative history challenges the conventional wisdom that societies progressed through a series of stages that inevitably led to inequalities — instead arguing that people have experimented with a variety of social systems since the Stone Age (SN: 11/6/21, p. 34).
First Steps
Jeremy DeSilva
Harper
$27.99
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