Sapiens (Harari) - Book Reviews

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The sort of book that sweeps the cobwebs out of your brain…. Harari…is an intellectual acrobat whose logical leaps will have you gasping with admiration.
John Carey - Sunday Times (UK)


Harari’s account of how we conquered the Earth astonishes with its scope and imagination…. One of those rare books that lives up to the publisher’s blurb...brilliantly clear, witty and erudite
Ben Shepard - Observer (UK)


An absorbing, provocative history of civilization…packed with heretical thinking and surprising facts. This riveting, myth-busting book cannot be summarised…you will simply have to read it.
John Gray - Financial Times (UK)


Full of…high-perspective, shocking and wondrous stories, as well as strange theories and startling insights.
Bryan Appleyard - Sunday Times (UK)


Not only is Harari eloquent and humane, he is often wonderfully, mordantly funny
Independent (UK)


Engaging and informative…. Extremely interesting.
Guardian (UK)


Harari can write…really, really write, with wit, clarity, elegance, and a wonderful eye for metaphor.
Times (Ireland)


Writing with wit and verve, Harari…attempts to explain how Homo sapiens came to be the dominant species on Earth as well as the sole representative of the human genus.… Provocative and entertaining.
Publishers Weekly


(Starred 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.) It’s not often that a book offers readers the possibility to reconsider, well, everything. But that’s what Harari does in this sweeping look at the history of humans.… Readers of every stripe should put this at the top of their reading lists. Thinking has never been so enjoyable.
Booklist


(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