#1 New York Times Bestseller • New York Times Readers’ Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21st Century • A Guardian Best Book of the 21st Century • The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama and Bill Gates

“Interesting and provocative. . . . It gives you a sense of perspective on how briefly we’ve been on this earth, how short things like agriculture and science have been around, and why it makes sense for us to not take them for granted.”
—Barack Obama

“I would recommend this book to anyone interested in a fun, engaging look at early human history . . . you’ll have a hard time putting it down.”
—Bill Gates

"Sapiens is the sort of book that sweeps the cobwebs out of your brain. Its author, Yuval Noah Harari, is a young Israeli academic and an intellectual acrobat whose logical leaps have you gasping with admiration . . . Harari's writing radiates power and clarity."
—The Sunday Times

"Sapiens is packed with heretical thinking and surprising facts. This riveting, myth-busting book cannot be summarised in any detail; you will simply have to read it."
—Financial Times

"Sapiens is learned, thought-provoking, and crisply written. . . . Fascinating."
—Wall Street Journal

“Yuval Noah Harari’s celebrated Sapiens does for human evolution what Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time did for physics. . . . He does a superb job of outlining our slow emergence and eventual domination of the planet.”
—Forbes

“Yuval Noah Harari is an emerging rock-star lecturer at the nexus of history and science. . . . Sapiens takes readers on a sweeping tour of the history of our species. . . . Harari’s formidable intellect sheds light on the biggest breakthroughs in the human story . . . [this is] important reading for serious-minded, self-reflective sapiens.”
—Washington Post

“Ambitious and illuminating. . . . The wonderful and terrifying saga of the human species on earth.”
—Christian Science Monitor

"Sapiens is a starburst of a book, as enjoyable as it is stimulating."
—Sunday Express

"Sapiens is a fast-paced, witty and challenging romp through 70,000 years of human history . . . I did love it, and if you are interested in the whole story of humankind, I'm confident that you will love it too."
—Literary Review

“This title is one of the exceptional works of nonfiction that is both highly intellectual and compulsively readable. . . . A fascinating, hearty read.”
—Library Journal (starred review)

“An encyclopedic approach from a well-versed scholar who is concise but eloquent, both skeptical and opinionated, and open enough to entertain competing points of view. . . . The great debates of history aired out with satisfying vigor.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"Not only is Harari eloquent and humane, he is often wonderfully, mordantly funny. . . . Sapiens is a brave and bracing look at a species that is mostly in denial about . . . the crossroads it is rapidly approaching."
—The Independent

"Here is a simple reason why Sapiens has risen explosively to the ranks of an international bestseller. It tackles the biggest questions of history and of the modern world, and it is written in unforgettably vivid language. You will love it!"
—Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, Collapse, and The World until Yesterday

"I have just read Yuval Noah Harari's book Sapiens. It is brilliant. Most likely the best—and I have read very many—on the history of humankind. I have never read anything better. I think it is sad to think of all the people that will not get to read it."
—Henning Mankell

“In Sapiens, Harari delves deep into our history as a species to help us understand who we are and what made us this way. An engrossing read.”
—Dan Ariely, New York Times Bestselling author of Predictably Irrational, The Upside of Irrationality, and The Honest Truth About Dishonesty