Civilisation

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari

Candide

Voltaire

Guns, germs, and steel: the fates of human societies

Jared Diamond.

Civilization and Its Discontents

Sigmund Freud

Homo deus: a brief history of tomorrow

Yuval Noah Harari

A people's history of the United States: 1492-present

Howard Zinn.

Waiting For The Barbarians

J. M. Coetzee

The complete Essays

translated and edited with an introduction and notes by M.A. Screech.

A letter concerning toleration

John Locke ;

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition

Jared M. Diamond