Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
★★★★★Shelved Feb 25, 2023
I loved this book when I read it, such an audacious narrative. Now I've read a lot more, including some criticism of Diamond, and I'm a lot more skeptical of his just-so story. But it's very well written.
Goodreads readers give it 4.04★, from 474,164 ratings. I gave it 4★, −0.0, where I'm usually −0.9: I liked it more than most.
Readers call it History, Science, Anthropology, Sociology, Politics, Economics, Historical, World History.
Won Royal Society Science Book Prize 1998, Pulitzer Prize 1998, California Book Award 1997, Puddly Award 2001.