Ranked: Sociology

This is a subjective Ranked version of Genre: Sociology


  1. The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter by Joseph Henrich
  2. Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations by Amy Chua
  3. Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: Tight and Loose Cultures and the Secret Signals that Direct Our Lives by Michele Gelfand
  4. Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter
  5. Race And Culture: A World View by Thomas Sowell
  6. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
  7. The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society by Debra Soh
  8. Black Boy by Richard Wright
  9. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez
  10. The Heroine With 1,001 Faces by Maria Tatar
  11. Inventing the Enemy by Umberto Eco
  12. The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap by Gish Jen
  13. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
  14. Development and Connection in the Time of COVID-19: Corona’s Call for Conscious Choices by Cornelia C. Walther
  15. Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean by Jennifer Browdy De Hernandez
  16. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
  17. Social Inequality, Economic Decline, and Plutocracy: An American Crisis by Dale L. Johnson
  18. Post-Ottoman Coexistence: Sharing Space in the Shadow of Conflict edited by Rebecca Bryant
  19. Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
  20. Amerikaganistan, Dystopia Inc.: What Every Movement Activist Should Know by Dale Johnson