Julia and Victoria are surprised to find hope and belonging in a new story of humanity with The Dawn of Everything by “the Davids” (Graeber and Wengrow), the anthropological clapback to Sapiens by Harrari. Become a Member ! Shop with us on Bookshop.org ! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on The StoryGraph : Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100) Reading Challenge Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 101+) Reading Challenge Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links that give us a commission if you decide to make a purchase at no additional cost to you. Learn more . Mentioned in this episode: Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harrari Books by David Graeber: Debt , The Democracy Project , Bullshit Jobs The Origins of Monsters by David Wengrow “ A Flawed History of Humanity ” by David A. Bell (Persuasion) “ Digging for Utopia ” by Kwame Anthony Appiah (The New York Review of Books) “ ‘I’m certainly open to criticism’: David Wengrow and the trouble with rewriting human history ” by Andrew Anthony (The Guardian) “ Against Method: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, by David Graeber and David Wengrow ” by Ian Morris (American Journal of Archaeologists) The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder 108 Nobody's Normal by Roy Richard Grinker — How Culture Creates the Stigma of Mental Health Dark Earth by Rebecca Stott Bonus: Historical Fiction with Rebecca Stott 116 The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin — ‘70s Sci-Fi in Context Bliss and Blunder by Victoria Gosling Recommendations: Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas by Jennifer Raff “The Last Human: A Glimpse Into the Far Future” by Kurzgesagt If Book Could Kill podcast, specifically “ The End of History ” episode Currently Obsessed: Strike Force Five podcast MUNA’s self-titled album Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout Before the Ruins by Victoria Gosling It’s a Wonderful World board game
