Despite the fact that I have not been posting new book summaries so that I can focus on writing my From Poverty to Progress book series, traffic to the website keeps growing. Thanks so much for your support!

Below is a rank-ordered list of the most popular book summaries in 2022 (you all have excellent tastes!):

Book Summary: “Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know” by Bailey and Tupy

Book Summary: “Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West” by William Cronon

Book Summary: “The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers” by Paul Kennedy

Book Summary: “An Edible History of Humanity” by Tom Standage

Book Summary: “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics” by John Mearsheimer

Book Summary: “Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World” by Niall Ferguson

Book Summary: “Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human” by Richard Wrangham

Book Summary: “The Triumph of the City” by Edward Glaeser

Book Summary: “Poor Economics” by Banerjee and Duflo

Book Summary: “Kicking Away the Ladder” by Ha-Joon Chang

Book Summary: “The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism..” by Daniel Headrick

Book Summary: “The Fifth Beginning: What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us” by Robert Kelly

Book Summary: “Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World” by Walter Russell Mead

Book Summary: “Blueprint – How DNA Makes Us Who We Are” by Robert Plomin

Book Summary: “Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity ” by Pluckrose & Lindsay

Book Summary: “Alchemy of Air: … the Scientific Discovery that Fed the World” by Thomas Hager

Book Summary: “The Secret of Our Success” by Joseph Henrich

Book Summary: “Wealth, Poverty and Politics” by Thomas Sowell

Book Summary: “Science and Technology in World History: An Introduction” by McClellan and Dorn

Book Summary: “Plagues and Peoples” by William McNeill

See also the most popular book summaries of all-time.

Enjoy reading!