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Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 310 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 862,111 ratings — published 2008
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 291 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 895,079 ratings — published 2005
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 278 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 852,853 ratings — published 2000
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 234 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 455,195 ratings — published 1997
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 223 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 620,747 ratings — published 2005
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 216 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,249,549 ratings — published 2011
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 213 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 583,924 ratings — published 2011
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 178 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 473,318 ratings — published 2012
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 65,586 ratings — published 2012
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 148 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.00 — 335,475 ratings — published 2019
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 148 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 130,858 ratings — published 2008
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.47 — 113,267 ratings — published 2016
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.94 — 74,555 ratings — published 2004
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 126 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.52 — 116,909 ratings — published 2010
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 124 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.18 — 286,209 ratings — published 2015
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 121 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.97 — 191,298 ratings — published 2013
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 166,460 ratings — published 2019
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.36 — 200,997 ratings — published 2018
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.84 — 94,422 ratings — published 2008
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.52 — 160,402 ratings — published 2020
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.00 — 134,225 ratings — published 2009
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,535 ratings — published 2010
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 99 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.65 — 195,346 ratings — published 2001
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 98 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 171,772 ratings — published 2018
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 559,708 ratings — published 2012
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 104,758 ratings — published 2009
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.27 — 60,768 ratings — published 2023
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 176,797 ratings — published 2018
Modern Romance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.80 — 189,816 ratings — published 2015
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 62,354 ratings — published 2012
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 121,423 ratings — published 2007
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.91 — 42,498 ratings — published 2017
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.84 — 501,646 ratings — published 2016
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 9,054 ratings — published 2000
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 37,995 ratings — published 1985
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.20 — 32,248 ratings — published 2018
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.68 — 196,458 ratings — published 1848
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 175,987 ratings — published 1984
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,061 ratings — published 1904
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.97 — 52,315 ratings — published 2012
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.32 — 170,700 ratings — published 2024
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,209 ratings — published 2019
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.81 — 116,303 ratings — published 2021
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.02 — 33,928 ratings — published 2018
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 69 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.23 — 55,771 ratings — published 2018
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 78,962 ratings — published 2019
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.37 — 868,330 ratings — published 1946
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.44 — 45,690 ratings — published 2017
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.40 — 364,921 ratings — published 2015
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.75 — 206,498 ratings — published 2001
“War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.”
― Nation, State, and Economy: Contributions to the Politics and History of Our Time
― Nation, State, and Economy: Contributions to the Politics and History of Our Time
“Both [social science & science fiction] attempt to understand empirical facts and lived experience as something that is shaped by abstract - and not directly perceptible - structural forces.”
― Four Futures: Life After Capitalism
― Four Futures: Life After Capitalism
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