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Social Science Books
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Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 316 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 874,045 ratings — published 2008
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 290 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 901,639 ratings — published 2005
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 279 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 859,207 ratings — published 2000
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 237 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 461,967 ratings — published 1997
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 224 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 624,967 ratings — published 2005
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 219 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,281,338 ratings — published 2011
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 214 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 596,668 ratings — published 2011
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 180 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.07 — 478,339 ratings — published 2012
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 66,974 ratings — published 2012
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 150 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.00 — 339,300 ratings — published 2019
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 131,801 ratings — published 2008
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 137 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.47 — 115,351 ratings — published 2016
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,021 ratings — published 2004
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 126 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.18 — 290,177 ratings — published 2015
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 126 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.52 — 118,417 ratings — published 2010
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 123 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.97 — 192,639 ratings — published 2013
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 172,779 ratings — published 2019
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.84 — 95,396 ratings — published 2008
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.35 — 203,372 ratings — published 2018
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.52 — 163,720 ratings — published 2020
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,756 ratings — published 2010
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.00 — 134,633 ratings — published 2009
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 100 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.66 — 195,952 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 — 172,874 ratings — published 2018
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 566,972 ratings — published 2012
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 105,294 ratings — published 2009
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.27 — 63,525 ratings — published 2023
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 179,141 ratings — published 2018
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 64,267 ratings — published 2012
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 122,767 ratings — published 2007
Modern Romance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.80 — 190,140 ratings — published 2015
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 9,301 ratings — published 2000
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.91 — 42,805 ratings — published 2017
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 193,104 ratings — published 2024
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 39,404 ratings — published 1985
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.83 — 507,961 ratings — published 2016
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.69 — 201,622 ratings — published 1848
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 32,630 ratings — published 2018
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 179,083 ratings — published 1984
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,287 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 — 52,634 ratings — published 2012
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.80 — 120,703 ratings — published 2021
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,966 ratings — published 2019
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 71 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.23 — 57,276 ratings — published 2018
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.02 — 35,118 ratings — published 2018
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 80,685 ratings — published 2019
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.44 — 46,803 ratings — published 2017
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.37 — 895,730 ratings — published 1946
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.40 — 370,015 ratings — published 2015
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,550 ratings — published 1983
“To me it was plain silly. It is so obvious that life works in terms of species rather than individuals. The individual just has to be born, to develop to the point at which it can procreate, and then to fall away into death to make way for its successors, and humans are no exception whatever they may fancy.”
― Somewhere Towards the End
― Somewhere Towards the End
“Talent alone does not make someone an expert.”
― Adolescence
― Adolescence
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