The 2021 Harvard Book Prize is Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari
Book Selections from Years Past:
2020: Educated, by Tara Westover
2019: Leadership in Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns-Goodwin
2018: The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt
2017: The Glass Universe, by Dava Sobel
2016: Empire of Cotton, by Sven Beckert
2015: Mindful Work, by David Gelles
2014: David and Goliath, by Malcom Gladwell
2013: Connected, by Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD and James H. Fowler, PhD
2012: Steve Jobs, by Walter Issacson
2011: Humanity on a Tightrope, by Paul R. Erhlich and Robert E. Ornstein
2010: The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science, by Richard Holmes
2009: The World Is Curved, by David M. Smick
2008: How Doctors Think, by Jerome Groopman MD
2007: The Ancestor's Tale, by Richard Dawkins