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 Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it by Will Storr
  5. The Second Stage by Betty Friedan
  6. Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter
  7. Race And Culture: A World View by Thomas Sowell
  8. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
  9. The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society by Debra Soh
  10. Black Boy by Richard Wright
  11. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez
  12. Social Justice Fallacies by Thomas Sowell
  13. The Heroine With 1,001 Faces by Maria Tatar
  14. Inventing the Enemy by Umberto Eco
  15. The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap by Gish Jen
  16. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
  17. Development and Connection in the Time of COVID-19: Corona’s Call for Conscious Choices by Cornelia C. Walther
  18. Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean by Jennifer Browdy De Hernandez
  19. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
  20. Woman in Hiding: A True Tale of Backdoor Abuse, Dark Secrets & Other Evil Deeds by Kathleen Hoy Foley
  21. Forget About Heaven: Don’t Yell At Me, Take It Up With My Dead Mother by Kathleen Hoy Foley
  22. Breaking Through Silence: A No-Nonsense Love Letter to Women by Kathleen Hoy Foley
  23. Social Inequality, Economic Decline, and Plutocracy: An American Crisis by Dale L. Johnson
  24. Post-Ottoman Coexistence: Sharing Space in the Shadow of Conflict edited by Rebecca Bryant
  25. Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
  26. Amerikaganistan, Dystopia Inc.: What Every Movement Activist Should Know by Dale Johnson