Sociology Published in Decade: 2010s
1. 
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
by:
J.D. Vance
3.85 avg rating β 488,896 ratings 2. 
4. 
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 4.52 avg rating β 115,057 ratings
5. 
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
by:
Matthew Desmond
4.47 avg rating β 109,973 ratings 
7. 
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
by:
Susan Cain
4.08 avg rating β 465,762 ratings 
11. 
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
by:
Nancy Isenberg
3.76 avg rating β 24,558 ratings 
14. 
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America 4.44 avg rating β 44,189 ratings
14. 
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
by:
Jared Diamond
3.78 avg rating β 10,885 ratings 16. 
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
by:
Jonathan Haidt
4.20 avg rating β 63,333 ratings 
18. 
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
by:
Daron AcemoΔlu
4.09 avg rating β 59,226 ratings 19. 
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
by:
Steven Pinker
4.20 avg rating β 31,752 ratings 20. 
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by:
Steven Pinker
4.16 avg rating β 29,271 ratings 21. 
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right 4.12 avg rating β 17,564 ratings
22. 
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure
by:
Jonathan Haidt
4.23 avg rating β 53,305 ratings 23. 
$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
by:
Kathryn J. Edin
3.96 avg rating β 8,642 ratings 24. 
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
by:
Charles Duhigg
4.13 avg rating β 549,182 ratings 25. 
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
by:
Carol Anderson
4.47 avg rating β 14,605 ratings 
29. 
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
by:
Robin DiAngelo
4.16 avg rating β 170,229 ratings 29. 
32. 
The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology
by:
Aldon D. Morris
4.38 avg rating β 213 ratings 
34. 
Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution
by:
David Harvey
3.92 avg rating β 2,040 ratings 35. 
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
by:
Jon Ronson
3.95 avg rating β 155,564 ratings 36. 
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
by:
Katherine Boo
3.98 avg rating β 114,830 ratings 
38. 
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
by:
Ibram X. Kendi
4.53 avg rating β 37,886 ratings 
40. 
Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School 3.90 avg rating β 1,317 ratings
41. 
Whistling Vivaldi: And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us
by:
Claude M. Steele
3.92 avg rating β 6,021 ratings 43. 
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
by:
Karen E. Fields
4.16 avg rating β 1,693 ratings 44. 
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are 3.91 avg rating β 42,045 ratings
44. 
The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives
by:
Sasha Abramsky
3.64 avg rating β 853 ratings 46. 
Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
by:
Andrew Solomon
4.27 avg rating β 22,184 ratings 46. 
Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
by:
Jane McGonigal
3.79 avg rating β 8,270 ratings 48. 
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
by:
Steven Levitsky
4.16 avg rating β 30,334 ratings 49. 
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
by:
Jon Krakauer
4.12 avg rating β 57,735 ratings 50. 
The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves
by:
Dan Ariely
3.93 avg rating β 16,725 ratings 51. 
51. 
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions FailβBut Some Don't
by:
Nate Silver
3.97 avg rating β 51,885 ratings 
57. 
Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
by:
Johann Hari
4.50 avg rating β 21,101 ratings 
57. 
Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy 4.26 avg rating β 1,500 ratings
61. 
Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society
by:
Cordelia Fine
3.79 avg rating β 3,505 ratings 61. 
High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out
by:
Amanda Ripley
4.27 avg rating β 4,488 ratings 63. 
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
by:
Francis Fukuyama
4.18 avg rating β 10,199 ratings 
63. 
The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students 4.25 avg rating β 2,214 ratings
66. 
The Economics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
by:
Niall Kishtainy
4.02 avg rating β 2,346 ratings 66. 
Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town
by:
Brian Alexander
3.91 avg rating β 1,852 ratings 66. 
Generation on a Tightrope: A Portrait of Today's College Student
by:
Arthur Levine
3.40 avg rating β 221 ratings 69. 
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future 4.02 avg rating β 9,789 ratings
71. 
How Risky Is It, Really?: Why Our Fears Don't Always Match the Facts
by:
David Ropeik
3.71 avg rating β 206 ratings 72. 
Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spreadβ The Lessons from a New Science
by:
Alex Pentland
3.53 avg rating β 1,402 ratings 72. 
Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear... and Why
by:
Sady Doyle
4.07 avg rating β 4,368 ratings 72. 
Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions
by:
Johann Hari
4.26 avg rating β 40,182 ratings 75. 
76. 
High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society
by:
Carl L. Hart
4.13 avg rating β 3,002 ratings 77. 
To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care
by:
Cris Beam
4.01 avg rating β 3,432 ratings 77. 
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
by:
Virginia Eubanks
4.01 avg rating β 2,737 ratings 77. 
Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed
by:
Jason L. Riley
4.20 avg rating β 1,713 ratings 80. 
Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York's Underground Economy
by:
Sudhir Venkatesh
3.46 avg rating β 1,292 ratings 80. 
Down in the Chapel: Religious Life in an American Prison
by:
Joshua Dubler
3.81 avg rating β 58 ratings 82. 
Men Without Work: America's Invisible Crisis (New Threats to Freedom Series) 3.42 avg rating β 483 ratings
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86. 
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
by:
Nicholas Carr
3.89 avg rating β 32,241 ratings 86. 
The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism
by:
David Harvey
4.02 avg rating β 1,483 ratings 86. 
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World β and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
by:
Hans Rosling
4.36 avg rating β 197,307 ratings 86. 
Springtime for Snowflakes: Social Justice and Its Postmodern Parentage 3.96 avg rating β 180 ratings
90. 
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
by:
Jessica Bruder
4.03 avg rating β 49,880 ratings 90. 
The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation
by:
Natalie Y. Moore
4.03 avg rating β 2,071 ratings 90. 
Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom 3.85 avg rating β 121 ratings
93. 
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
by:
Christopher Ryan
3.98 avg rating β 31,323 ratings 
97. 
Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture
by:
Peggy Orenstein
3.67 avg rating β 16,139 ratings 97. 
Mind Amplifier: Can Our Digital Tools Make Us Smarter?
by:
Howard Rheingold
3.58 avg rating β 125 ratings 97. 
The Human Cost of Welfare: How the System Hurts the People It's Supposed to Help
by:
Phil Harvey
4.42 avg rating β 19 ratings 100. 
The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
by:
Daniel Coyle
4.25 avg rating β 33,880 ratings