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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