Social Science Books
48 popular social science titles
The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Poverty, by America
Matthew Desmond

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Mikki Kendall

Caste The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson
A Paradise Built in Hell The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disasters
Rebecca Solnit

Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
Malcolm Gladwell
Stolen Focus Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
Johann Hari

Black Friend: Essays
Ziwe Fumudoh
Africa Is Not a Country Notes on a Bright Continent
Dipo Faloyin
Brown Tide Rising
Otto Santa Ana

Robots and the People Who Love Them: Holding on to Our Humanity in an Age of Social Robots
Eve Herold

Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Beverly Daniel Tatum

Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

Anti-intellectualism in American Life.
Richard Hofstadter

Don't Call Us Out of Name The Untold Lives of Women and Girls in Poor America
Lisa Dodson

Superintelligence Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Nick Bostrom
Phantasmal Media An Approach to Imagination, Computation, and Expression
D. Fox Harrell

Race After the Internet
Lisa Nakamura

Lovingkindness The Revolutionary Art of Happiness
Sharon Salzberg

Juxtapoz Psychedelic
Hannah Stouffer

What's Wrong?: Personal Histories of Chronic Pain and Bad Medicine
Erin Williams

Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World
Rachel Swaby
There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
Hanif Abdurraqib

Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck: Why We Can't Look Away
Eric G. Wilson

Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See
Bianca Bosker
Sex, Gender, and Sexuality The New Basics : an Anthology
Abby L. Ferber

Bad Feminist: Essays
Roxane Gay

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Steven D. Levitt

Peculiar Indifference: The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America
Elliott Currie
Soul on Ice
Eldridge Cleaver
On Video Games The Visual Politics of Race, Gender and Space
Soraya Murray

Lure and Loathing Essays on Race, Identity, and the Ambivalence of Assimilation
Gerald Early
Divided Sisters
Midge Wilson
Locking Up Our Own
James Forman, Jr.
The Will to Change Men, Masculinity, and Love
Arihant Experts

Black Futures
Kimberly Drew

The Nineties A Book
Chuck Klosterman

Mythos The Greek Myths Retold
Stephen Fry
The Devil You Know
Charles M. Blow

The 99% Invisible City A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
Roman Mars

The Laramie Project
Moisés Kaufman

Six Degrees of Separation A Play
John Guare
Class A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education
Stephanie Land

The Anthropocene Reviewed (Signed Edition) Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
John Green

In Cold Blood
Truman Capote

Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
Amanda Montell

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green

Antigone
Sophocles