Genre: social science 743 books

Details	Release Year	Readers Count	Rating
The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien	1954	719 reads	4.57
The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky	1999	699 reads	4.07
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men Caroline Criado Perez	2019	137 reads	4.26
We Should All Be Feminists Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	2012	269 reads	4.41
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis J.D. Vance	2016	156 reads	3.47
The Fire Next Time James Baldwin	1962	110 reads	4.54
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot Mikki Kendall	2020	60 reads	4.27
Bad Feminist Roxane Gay	2014	114 reads	3.95
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory David Graeber	2018	75 reads	3.91
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants Malcolm Gladwell	2013	102 reads	3.75
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders Vincent Bugliosi Curt Gentry	1974	66 reads	4.08
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race Reni Eddo-Lodge Zuzana Szabóová (translator)	2017	56 reads	4.26
Men Explain Things to Me Rebecca Solnit	2014	75 reads	3.77
Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer	2009	66 reads	4.15
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass	1845	80 reads	4.18
Dear Ijeawele, Or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	2017	78 reads	4.39
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America Barbara Ehrenreich	2001	78 reads	3.69
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language Amanda Montell	2019	40 reads	4.22
Heavy Kiese Laymon	2018	25 reads	4.62
Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex Angela Chen	2020	40 reads	3.96
Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham	1915	24 reads	4.08
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures Malcolm Gladwell	2009	58 reads	3.83
How to Be a Woman Caitlin Moran	2011	49 reads	3.55
The Souls of Black Folk W.E.B. Du Bois	1903	21 reads	4.13
The Death and Life of Great American Cities Jane Jacobs	1961	23 reads	4
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor Layla F. Saad	2020	34 reads	4.29
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality Christopher Ryan Cacilda Jethá	2010	36 reads	3.88
The Feminine Mystique Betty Friedan	1963	18 reads	3.38
All the President's Men Carl Bernstein Bob Woodward	1974	34 reads	3.58
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic Sam Quinones	2015	40 reads	4.24
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name Audre Lorde	1982	14 reads	4.56
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference Cordelia Fine	2005	15 reads	4.56
Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga Hunter S. Thompson	1966	36 reads	3.82
Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator Ryan Holiday	2012	22 reads	3.71
A Field Guide to Getting Lost Rebecca Solnit	2005	25 reads	3.32
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? Beverly Daniel Tatum	1997	13 reads	4.83
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower Brittney Cooper	2018	14 reads	4.38
The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology Ray Kurzweil	2005	11 reads	3.17
The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home Dan Ariely	2010	14 reads	3.67
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Harriet Ann Jacobs	1861	18 reads	4
Dataclysm: Who We Are Christian Rudder	2014	27 reads	3.84
The Right to Sex Amia Srinivasan	2021	13 reads	4.5
A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf	1929	21 reads	4.5
All That Remains Sue Black	2018	17 reads	4.5
Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny Kate Manne	2017	7 reads	4.4
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen David Brooks	2023	17 reads	4.21
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval Saidiya Hartman	1997	7 reads	4.33
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia Sabrina Strings	2019	8 reads	4.8
Superior: The Return of Race Science Angela Saini	2019	9 reads	4.5
Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer Barbara Ehrenreich	2018	11 reads	3.7
The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls Mona Eltahawy	2019	7 reads	4.75
Consider the fork Bee Wilson	2012	11 reads	3.93
Future Shock Alvin Toffler	1970	8 reads	3.6
Everything Bad Is Good for You Steven Johnson	2005	11 reads	3.44
Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town Barbara Demick	2020	8 reads	4.29
Race after Technology Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code Ruha Benjamin	2019	3 reads	4.5
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors Susan Sontag	1989	6 reads	4.6
Homo ludens Johan Huizinga	1938	5 reads	2.5
Imaginable Jane McGonigal	2022	7 reads	4.33
Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces Radley Balko	2013	6 reads	4.5
In praise of idleness, and other essays Bertrand Russell	1935	5 reads	4.25
I Hate Men Pauline Harmange Natasha Lehrer (Translator)	2020	11 reads	3.36
The queer art of failure J. Jack Halberstam	2011	4 reads	3
The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon - The Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World Steven L. Kent	2001	6 reads	4.25
The songlines Bruce Chatwin	1987	8 reads	3.86
The underground girls of Kabul in search of a hidden resistance in Afghanistan Jenny Nordberg	2014	5 reads	3.33
A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind Siri Hustvedt	2016	1 read	5
We Gon' Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation Jeff Chang	2016	3 reads	3.67
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights Howard Pyle Scott McKowen Arthur Pober	1903	6 reads	4
The Sorcerer's Companion Allan Zola Kronzek	2001	6 reads	3.5
The Thirst for Annihilation Nick Land	1992	2 reads	4
Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir Paul Monette	1988	2 reads	5
Tristes Tropiques Claude Lévi-Strauss John Weightman (Translator) Doreen Weightman (Translator)	1955	3 reads	3.33
untouchable Mulk Raj Anand	1935	3 reads	2
Patrimony Philip Roth	1991	2 reads	3.5
Founding mothers Cokie Roberts	2004	4 reads	3.5
Vagina Naomi Wolf	2012	2 reads	4
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Martin Luther King Jr.	1966	2 reads	5
The Evidence of Things Not Seen James Baldwin	1985	1 read	4
The Secret Life of Cows Rosamund Young	2003	3 reads	4.5
Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference Warren St. John	2009	4 reads	3.33
Science of the Magical: From the Holy Grail to Love Potions to Superpowers Matt Kaplan	2015	4 reads	2.75
Idea Man Paul Allen	2011	3 reads	3.67
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Michelle Alexander	2010	3 reads	5
Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet George Monbiot	2022	0 reads	0
Happy Like Murderers Gordon Burn	1998	3 reads	4
Trans bodies, trans selves	2014	2 reads	5
On Being Different: What It Means to Be a Homosexual Merle Miller	1971	1 read	3.5
The Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen	1899	3 reads	3
True American Murder and Mercy in Texas Anand Giridharadas	2014	2 reads	4
We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival	2021	1 read	5
Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food Fuchsia Dunlop	2023	2 reads	0
Feminismo para principiantes Nuria Varela	2005	1 read	5
The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography Angela Carter	1978	0 reads	0
Funhouse Diane Hoh	1988	2 reads	2
Marx, Marginalism and Modern Sociology Simon Clarke	1982	2 reads	0
We Speak for Ourselves A Word from Forgotten Black America D. Watkins	2019	1 read	5
How to Be Animal: A New History of What It Means to Be Human Melanie Challenger	2020	1 read	4
Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism Taylor G. Petrey	2020	1 read	0
Harlem is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts	2011	0 reads	0

Details	Release Year	Readers Count	Rating
The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien	1954	719 reads	4.57
The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky	1999	699 reads	4.07
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men Caroline Criado Perez	2019	137 reads	4.26
We Should All Be Feminists Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	2012	269 reads	4.41
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis J.D. Vance	2016	156 reads	3.47
The Fire Next Time James Baldwin	1962	110 reads	4.54
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot Mikki Kendall	2020	60 reads	4.27
Bad Feminist Roxane Gay	2014	114 reads	3.95
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory David Graeber	2018	75 reads	3.91
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants Malcolm Gladwell	2013	102 reads	3.75
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders Vincent Bugliosi Curt Gentry	1974	66 reads	4.08
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race Reni Eddo-Lodge Zuzana Szabóová (translator)	2017	56 reads	4.26
Men Explain Things to Me Rebecca Solnit	2014	75 reads	3.77
Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer	2009	66 reads	4.15
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass	1845	80 reads	4.18
Dear Ijeawele, Or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	2017	78 reads	4.39
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America Barbara Ehrenreich	2001	78 reads	3.69
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language Amanda Montell	2019	40 reads	4.22
Heavy Kiese Laymon	2018	25 reads	4.62
Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex Angela Chen	2020	40 reads	3.96
Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham	1915	24 reads	4.08
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures Malcolm Gladwell	2009	58 reads	3.83
How to Be a Woman Caitlin Moran	2011	49 reads	3.55
The Souls of Black Folk W.E.B. Du Bois	1903	21 reads	4.13
The Death and Life of Great American Cities Jane Jacobs	1961	23 reads	4
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor Layla F. Saad	2020	34 reads	4.29
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality Christopher Ryan Cacilda Jethá	2010	36 reads	3.88
The Feminine Mystique Betty Friedan	1963	18 reads	3.38
All the President's Men Carl Bernstein Bob Woodward	1974	34 reads	3.58
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic Sam Quinones	2015	40 reads	4.24
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name Audre Lorde	1982	14 reads	4.56
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference Cordelia Fine	2005	15 reads	4.56
Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga Hunter S. Thompson	1966	36 reads	3.82
Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator Ryan Holiday	2012	22 reads	3.71
A Field Guide to Getting Lost Rebecca Solnit	2005	25 reads	3.32
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? Beverly Daniel Tatum	1997	13 reads	4.83
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower Brittney Cooper	2018	14 reads	4.38
The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology Ray Kurzweil	2005	11 reads	3.17
The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home Dan Ariely	2010	14 reads	3.67
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Harriet Ann Jacobs	1861	18 reads	4
Dataclysm: Who We Are Christian Rudder	2014	27 reads	3.84
The Right to Sex Amia Srinivasan	2021	13 reads	4.5
A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf	1929	21 reads	4.5
All That Remains Sue Black	2018	17 reads	4.5
Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny Kate Manne	2017	7 reads	4.4
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen David Brooks	2023	17 reads	4.21
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval Saidiya Hartman	1997	7 reads	4.33
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia Sabrina Strings	2019	8 reads	4.8
Superior: The Return of Race Science Angela Saini	2019	9 reads	4.5
Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer Barbara Ehrenreich	2018	11 reads	3.7
The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls Mona Eltahawy	2019	7 reads	4.75
Consider the fork Bee Wilson	2012	11 reads	3.93
Future Shock Alvin Toffler	1970	8 reads	3.6
Everything Bad Is Good for You Steven Johnson	2005	11 reads	3.44
Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town Barbara Demick	2020	8 reads	4.29
Race after Technology Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code Ruha Benjamin	2019	3 reads	4.5
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors Susan Sontag	1989	6 reads	4.6
Homo ludens Johan Huizinga	1938	5 reads	2.5
Imaginable Jane McGonigal	2022	7 reads	4.33
Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces Radley Balko	2013	6 reads	4.5
In praise of idleness, and other essays Bertrand Russell	1935	5 reads	4.25
I Hate Men Pauline Harmange Natasha Lehrer (Translator)	2020	11 reads	3.36
The queer art of failure J. Jack Halberstam	2011	4 reads	3
The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon - The Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World Steven L. Kent	2001	6 reads	4.25
The songlines Bruce Chatwin	1987	8 reads	3.86
The underground girls of Kabul in search of a hidden resistance in Afghanistan Jenny Nordberg	2014	5 reads	3.33
A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind Siri Hustvedt	2016	1 read	5
We Gon' Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation Jeff Chang	2016	3 reads	3.67
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights Howard Pyle Scott McKowen Arthur Pober	1903	6 reads	4
The Sorcerer's Companion Allan Zola Kronzek	2001	6 reads	3.5
The Thirst for Annihilation Nick Land	1992	2 reads	4
Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir Paul Monette	1988	2 reads	5
Tristes Tropiques Claude Lévi-Strauss John Weightman (Translator) Doreen Weightman (Translator)	1955	3 reads	3.33
untouchable Mulk Raj Anand	1935	3 reads	2
Patrimony Philip Roth	1991	2 reads	3.5
Founding mothers Cokie Roberts	2004	4 reads	3.5
Vagina Naomi Wolf	2012	2 reads	4
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Martin Luther King Jr.	1966	2 reads	5
The Evidence of Things Not Seen James Baldwin	1985	1 read	4
The Secret Life of Cows Rosamund Young	2003	3 reads	4.5
Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference Warren St. John	2009	4 reads	3.33
Science of the Magical: From the Holy Grail to Love Potions to Superpowers Matt Kaplan	2015	4 reads	2.75
Idea Man Paul Allen	2011	3 reads	3.67
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Michelle Alexander	2010	3 reads	5
Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet George Monbiot	2022	0 reads	0
Happy Like Murderers Gordon Burn	1998	3 reads	4
Trans bodies, trans selves	2014	2 reads	5
On Being Different: What It Means to Be a Homosexual Merle Miller	1971	1 read	3.5
The Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen	1899	3 reads	3
True American Murder and Mercy in Texas Anand Giridharadas	2014	2 reads	4
We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival	2021	1 read	5
Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food Fuchsia Dunlop	2023	2 reads	0
Feminismo para principiantes Nuria Varela	2005	1 read	5
The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography Angela Carter	1978	0 reads	0
Funhouse Diane Hoh	1988	2 reads	2
Marx, Marginalism and Modern Sociology Simon Clarke	1982	2 reads	0
We Speak for Ourselves A Word from Forgotten Black America D. Watkins	2019	1 read	5
How to Be Animal: A New History of What It Means to Be Human Melanie Challenger	2020	1 read	4
Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism Taylor G. Petrey	2020	1 read	0
Harlem is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts	2011	0 reads	0

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