Mark Zuckerberg picks Steven Pinker as his book club’s next choice

Facebook founder’s second selection for online reading group is psychologist’s study claiming violence is declining in human society

Mark Zuckerberg has chosen Steven Pinker’s argument that humanity has become less violent over the millennia as the second title for his new book club.

The Facebook founder’s initiative, hailed by some as a successor to Oprah’s book club, which turned the titles it picked into major bestsellers, kicked off earlier this month with a work of economics, Moisés Naím’s The End of Power. The book shot up the charts, with its publisher saying that it had sold more ebooks of the title in the two days after Zuckerberg’s announcement than it had sold in the year-and-a-half before.

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