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Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 318 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 891,307 ratings — published 2008
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 292 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 911,849 ratings — published 2005
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 282 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 868,296 ratings — published 2000
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 243 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 473,441 ratings — published 1997
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 228 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 631,305 ratings — published 2005
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 226 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,331,079 ratings — published 2011
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 216 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 617,652 ratings — published 2011
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 182 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.07 — 485,950 ratings — published 2012
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 69,347 ratings — published 2012
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 153 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.00 — 344,761 ratings — published 2019
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 150 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.11 — 133,264 ratings — published 2008
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 137 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.47 — 118,543 ratings — published 2016
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,748 ratings — published 2004
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 127 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.18 — 296,192 ratings — published 2015
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.97 — 194,585 ratings — published 2013
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,554 ratings — published 2010
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 121 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.33 — 182,670 ratings — published 2019
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.52 — 168,300 ratings — published 2020
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.84 — 96,952 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 — 207,020 ratings — published 2018
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 30,014 ratings — published 2010
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 — 135,216 ratings — published 2009
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 100 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,496 ratings — published 2018
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 106,133 ratings — published 2009
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 99 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,891 ratings — published 2001
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.27 — 67,351 ratings — published 2023
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 — 577,578 ratings — published 2012
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 182,570 ratings — published 2018
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 125,086 ratings — published 2007
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 67,364 ratings — published 2012
Modern Romance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.80 — 190,665 ratings — published 2015
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 41,682 ratings — published 1985
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 9,724 ratings — published 2000
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 222,039 ratings — published 2024
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 3.90 — 43,237 ratings — published 2017
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.83 — 515,401 ratings — published 2016
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 184,668 ratings — published 1984
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.70 — 210,101 ratings — published 1848
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.79 — 127,551 ratings — published 2021
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 76 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.22 — 59,409 ratings — published 2018
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,684 ratings — published 1904
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 33,061 ratings — published 2018
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 — 53,129 ratings — published 2012
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.36 — 121,051 ratings — published 2019
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 37,115 ratings — published 2018
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.37 — 940,348 ratings — published 1946
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 83,980 ratings — published 2019
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.43 — 48,693 ratings — published 2017
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 28,953 ratings — published 2021
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.40 — 376,589 ratings — published 2015
“Talent alone does not make someone an expert.”
― Adolescence
― Adolescence
“The unpleasant image of the feminists today resembles less the feminists themselves than the image fostered by the interests who so bitterly opposed the vote for women...”
― The Feminine Mystique
― The Feminine Mystique
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