Social Science books
Social science books on in prose, ranked by community signal — 18 titles across the catalogue.
A Complicated Woman
Rebecca Lucy Taylor
2025
Narcoball
David Arrowsmith
2024
Hidden Figures
Margot Lee Shetterly
2022
Why We Eat (Too Much)
Andrew Jenkinson
2021
Quit Like a Woman
Holly Whitaker
2019
House of Trump, House of Putin
Craig Unger
2019
Mythos
Stephen Fry
2017
Pirates: A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates
Charles Johnson
2017
The Glass Slipper
Susan Ostrov Weisser
2013
Superfreakonomics
Steven D. Levitt
2011
Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell
2009
Stephen Fry in America
Stephen Fry
2009
The Tipping Point
Malcolm Gladwell
2006
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson
2005
Uninvited Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability
Patricia White
1999
The Motorcycle Diaries A Journey Around South America
Ernesto Guevara
1996
Fin-De-Siecle Vienna Politics and Culture
Carl E. Schorske
1980
The Book of Imaginary Beings
Jorge Luis Borges
1974
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