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. The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life by Robin Hanson
  5. The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it by Will Storr
  6. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present by Fareed Zakaria
  7. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer
  8. The Second Stage by Betty Friedan
  9. Trans: Gender Identity and the New Battle for Women's Rights by Helen Joyce
  10. Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter
  11. Race And Culture: A World View by Thomas Sowell
  12. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
  13. When We Are No More: How Digital Memory Is Shaping Our Future by Abby Smith Rumsey
  14. The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society by Debra Soh
  15. Black Boy by Richard Wright
  16. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez
  17. Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny by Robert Wright
  18. Social Justice Fallacies by Thomas Sowell
  19. The Heroine With 1,001 Faces by Maria Tatar
  20. Inventing the Enemy by Umberto Eco
  21. The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap by Gish Jen
  22. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
  23. Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider by Peter Gay
  24. Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient by Edward W. Said
  25. Development and Connection in the Time of COVID-19: Corona’s Call for Conscious Choices by Cornelia C. Walther
  26. Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean by Jennifer Browdy De Hernandez
  27. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
  28. Woman in Hiding: A True Tale of Backdoor Abuse, Dark Secrets & Other Evil Deeds by Kathleen Hoy Foley
  29. Forget About Heaven: Don’t Yell At Me, Take It Up With My Dead Mother by Kathleen Hoy Foley
  30. Breaking Through Silence: A No-Nonsense Love Letter to Women by Kathleen Hoy Foley
  31. Social Inequality, Economic Decline, and Plutocracy: An American Crisis by Dale L. Johnson
  32. Post-Ottoman Coexistence: Sharing Space in the Shadow of Conflict edited by Rebecca Bryant
  33. Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
  34. Amerikaganistan, Dystopia Inc.: What Every Movement Activist Should Know by Dale Johnson