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Books like Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
The best books like Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow are Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Thinking, Fast and Slow, and Outliers: The Story of Success. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari is about futurism, technology and humanity, artificial intelligence. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari · History
Sapiens traces the full arc of human history from the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa roughly 70,000 years ago to the present.
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - Thinking, Fast and Slow
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Daniel Kahneman · Psychology
Thinking, Fast and Slow is Daniel Kahneman's account of the two cognitive systems that govern human thought.
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - Outliers: The Story of Success
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Outliers: The Story of Success
Malcolm Gladwell · Psychology
Outliers is Malcolm Gladwell's argument that exceptional success is less a product of individual genius or drive than it is of hidden advantages, timing, and accumulated opportunity.
A kindred history read.
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- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
David Epstein · Science
Range is David Epstein's argument against the ten-thousand-hours gospel.
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - 2001: A Space Odyssey
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Arthur C. Clarke · Science fiction
2001: A Space Odyssey begins with prehistoric man-apes encountering a featureless black monolith that somehow catalyzes their cognitive leap from prey to hunter.
Both dig into artificial intelligence.
Read the summary → - 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari · Philosophy
Where Sapiens traced humanity's past and Homo Deus speculated about its future, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century plants itself in the present.
Both dig into artificial intelligence.
Read the summary → - AI Superpowers
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Kai-Fu Lee · Business
AI Superpowers is Kai-Fu Lee's argument that the geopolitical competition to lead in artificial intelligence is primarily a two-country race between the United States and China, and that the outcome will reshape the global economy in ways most people haven't started to reckon with.
Both dig into artificial intelligence.
Read the summary → - Atlas of AI
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Kate Crawford · Science
Atlas of AI is Kate Crawford's account of what artificial intelligence actually is — not a disembodied intelligence but a physical system built from extracted minerals, underpaid labor, vast energy consumption, and accumulated data taken largely without meaningful consent.
Both dig into artificial intelligence.
Read the summary → - Blindsight
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Peter Watts · Science fiction
Blindsight follows a crew of post-human specialists sent to intercept an alien object at the edge of the solar system in 2082.
Both dig into free will.
Read the summary → - Co-Intelligence
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Ethan Mollick · Business
Co-Intelligence is Ethan Mollick's argument that large language models represent something genuinely new — not a search engine, not a simple automation tool — and that the right response is not fear or hype but active, informed experimentation.
Both dig into artificial intelligence.
Read the summary → - Competing in the Age of AI
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Marco Iansiti & Karim Lakhani · Business
Competing in the Age of AI is Marco Iansiti and Karim Lakhani's argument that artificial intelligence is not just another technology to be adopted, but a fundamental redesign of how firms operate — and that companies built from the start with AI at their core will eventually displace firms that try to bolt AI onto traditional operating models.
Both dig into artificial intelligence.
Read the summary → - Deep Learning
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Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, and Aaron Courville · Science
Deep Learning by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, and Aaron Courville is the standard graduate-level textbook on the mathematical and computational foundations of deep neural networks.
Both dig into artificial intelligence.
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Books like Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow: quick answers
What are the best books like Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow?
The best books like Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari are Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein, 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, such as futurism, technology and humanity, artificial intelligence.
What should I read after Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow?
A natural next read after Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow is Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari. A kindred history read. Other strong choices are Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein.
What books are similar to Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari?
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow centers on futurism, technology and humanity, artificial intelligence. Books with a similar feel include Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein, 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
