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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,331,212 ratings — published 2011
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.01 — 911,876 ratings — published 2005
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.04 — 473,462 ratings — published 1997
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.19 — 891,349 ratings — published 2008
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.16 — 617,700 ratings — published 2011
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.01 — 868,309 ratings — published 2000
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.07 — 485,965 ratings — published 2012
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.96 — 631,321 ratings — published 2005
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,559 ratings — published 2010
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 66 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.18 — 296,203 ratings — published 2015
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.33 — 182,709 ratings — published 2019
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.52 — 168,312 ratings — published 2020
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.70 — 210,129 ratings — published 1848
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,752 ratings — published 2004
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.47 — 118,556 ratings — published 2016
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 57 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,891 ratings — published 2001
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.84 — 96,959 ratings — published 2008
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.35 — 207,036 ratings — published 2018
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.83 — 515,423 ratings — published 2016
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.11 — 17,048 ratings — published 1983
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.08 — 67,373 ratings — published 2012
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 51 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,499 ratings — published 2018
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.23 — 38,489 ratings — published 1975
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.79 — 127,559 ratings — published 2021
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.00 — 344,781 ratings — published 2019
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,686 ratings — published 1904
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,488 ratings — published 1978
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.01 — 37,119 ratings — published 2018
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 47 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.39 — 342,050 ratings — published 2012
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.37 — 940,481 ratings — published 1946
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.15 — 182,581 ratings — published 2018
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.19 — 69,354 ratings — published 2012
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.27 — 67,363 ratings — published 2023
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.11 — 133,268 ratings — published 2008
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.17 — 41,693 ratings — published 1985
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.40 — 376,613 ratings — published 2015
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.97 — 194,586 ratings — published 2013
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.30 — 222,098 ratings — published 2024
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.19 — 28,958 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 38 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.22 — 59,415 ratings — published 2018
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.36 — 121,054 ratings — published 2019
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.21 — 28,456 ratings — published 2011
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.13 — 577,600 ratings — published 2012
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.95 — 160,157 ratings — published 2011
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,916 ratings — published 1959
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.84 — 401,332 ratings — published 1513
Capital in the Twenty First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.06 — 35,429 ratings — published 2013
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.15 — 30,017 ratings — published 2010
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.96 — 125,095 ratings — published 2007
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.21 — 184,678 ratings — published 1984
“Women have been brought up with the false sense that they have all the options in the world. We don’t understand that the culture really isn’t offering us all of these options – there still are very strong pressures to conform. We have to step outside the culture to be able to make choices that will really give us what we want. But we lack the psychic mechanisms to do this, to really choose.”
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“Socialism is nothing but an everyday, ordinary concern for society. If people philosophize it with the term socialism, that's their problem.”
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