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Modernism: A Very Short Introduction
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Discover the best civilization books with 113 AI-powered summaries. Each book is distilled into key insights you can read in just 15 minutes.
113 books•Updated March 2026
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On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History
Nicholas A. Basbanes
10 min
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Orientalism
Edward W. Said
10 min
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Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction
Christopher Butler
10 min
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Reading Genesis
Ronald Hendel
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Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
Jenny Odell
10 min
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Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future
James Shapiro
10 min
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Start Making Sense
Rachel Greenwald Smith
10 min
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Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World
Aja Raden
10 min
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Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century
John Higgs
10 min
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Strangers and Intimates: The Ethics of Museum Relationships
Tiffany Jenkins
10 min
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Synthetic Societies
John Avery
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The Appearance of Man
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
Amartya Sen
10 min
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The Art Museum from Boullée to Bilbao
Andrew McClellan
10 min
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The Art of Memory
Frances A. Yates
10 min
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The Arthashastra
Kautilya
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The Autumn of the Middle Ages
Johan Huizinga
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The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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The Cartography of Time
Daniel Rosenberg, Anthony Grafton
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