Ranked: How Information and Books Survive the Test of Time, and How They Change

This is a subjective Ranked version of Intriguing Connections: How Information and Books Survive the Test of Time, and How They Change

Books and information (and misinformation) need to be passed on to remain.  Can be lost in translation or lost in abundance to alternatives.  Why should people if information is preserved?  How is is preserved?  A very fragile existence.  

About Writing Books

1. Making a Literary Life: Advice for Writers and Other Dreamers by Carolyn See

Culture

1. The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter by Joseph Henrich
2. The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by Jonathan Rauch
3. The Heroine With 1,001 Faces by Maria Tatar

History

1. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
2. A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
3. How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
4. Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World by Nicholas Ostler
5. The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
6. The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie
7. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
8. A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich

Philosophy, Epistemology

1. The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood by James Gleick
2. Science Fictions: The Epidemic of Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science by Stuart Ritchie

Science

1. Deep Time: How Humanity Communicates Across Millennia by Gregory Benford

Fiction

1. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
2. The Bookseller by Cynthia Swanson