1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

1491 is fantastic. Have you read the sequel, 1493? It's thoroughly enjoyable as well.

Neither are new books, but this year I both read and subsequently gifted * 1491 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1491:_New_Revelations_of_the_A... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1491:_New_Revelations_of_the_Americas_Before_Columbus) * Stranger in a Strange Land (the "Original, Uncut version") https://www.amazon.com/Stranger-Strange-Land-Robert-Heinlein... (https://www.amazon.com/Stranger-Strange-Land-Robert-Heinlein/dp/1442005831) 1491 is about the societies in the Americas prior to European contact. And if anyone knows of any books on the topic that have been written since then (and thus are even more up-to-date with the current state of the field), I'm very, very interested.…

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1491:_New_Revelations_of_the_Am... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1491:_New_Revelations_of_the_Americas_Before_Columbus))

I'm currently reading 1491 by Charles C. Mann, excellent book about the Americas before Columbus and how much of what we have been taught is either incorrect or misinformed. A follow up to this is 1943, what happened in the Americas after the arrival of Columbus. A great pair of books. I'll also say Ishmael by Daniel Quinn and The Story of B are two of my favourite books.