Best Books on Subcultures

1.
Grit: The Banter and Brutality of the Late-Night Cab
Grit: The Banter and Brutality of the Late-Night Cab 3.76 avg rating — 1,100 ratings
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You Really Are Full of Shit, Aren't You?
You Really Are Full of Shit, Aren't You? 4.15 avg rating — 196 ratings
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Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century 4.03 avg rating — 49,876 ratings
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Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players
Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players 3.82 avg rating — 5,577 ratings
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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen 4.30 avg rating — 228,792 ratings
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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War 4.10 avg rating — 24,892 ratings
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Speed Tribes: Days and Nights with Japan's Next Generation
Speed Tribes: Days and Nights with Japan's Next Generation 3.78 avg rating — 806 ratings
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Hot Cripple: An Incurable Smart-ass Takes on the Health Care System and Lives to Tell the Tale
Hot Cripple: An Incurable Smart-ass Takes on the Health Care System and Lives to Tell the Tale 3.98 avg rating — 169 ratings
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The Hammer Hood Gang (The Hammer Hood Gang, #1).
The Hammer Hood Gang (The Hammer Hood Gang, #1). 3.55 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe 4.14 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Skinhead... The Life I Chose: Memoirs of a Real Skin
Skinhead... The Life I Chose: Memoirs of a Real Skin 3.64 avg rating — 962 ratings
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Bournemouth Boys and Boscombe Girls
Bournemouth Boys and Boscombe Girls 4.16 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer: A Road Trip into the Heart of Fan Mania
Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer: A Road Trip into the Heart of Fan Mania 4.05 avg rating — 2,218 ratings
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Anxiety
Anxiety 4.17 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Cookoff: Recipe Fever in America
Cookoff: Recipe Fever in America 4.01 avg rating — 264 ratings
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Gunpowder Soup
Gunpowder Soup 4.67 avg rating — 21 ratings
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White Boy in Watts
White Boy in Watts 3.89 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Cabbie with a Dangerous Mind
Cabbie with a Dangerous Mind 4.62 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Authentic Animal: Inside the Odd and Obsessive World of Taxidermy
The Authentic Animal: Inside the Odd and Obsessive World of Taxidermy 3.79 avg rating — 206 ratings
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The Last of the Hippies
The Last of the Hippies 3.90 avg rating — 39 ratings
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The Man Who Caught the Storm: The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras
The Man Who Caught the Storm: The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras 4.30 avg rating — 1,594 ratings
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One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy
One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy 4.22 avg rating — 832 ratings
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Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs
Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs 3.93 avg rating — 3,316 ratings
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Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper
Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper 3.57 avg rating — 13,657 ratings
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Fierce Dancing: Adventures in the Underground
Fierce Dancing: Adventures in the Underground 4.23 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Searching for Bobby Fischer: The Father of a Prodigy Observes the World of Chess
Searching for Bobby Fischer: The Father of a Prodigy Observes the World of Chess 3.96 avg rating — 1,585 ratings
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Then Sings My Soul: The Culture of Southern Gospel Music
Then Sings My Soul: The Culture of Southern Gospel Music 3.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Queen of the Turtle Derby and Other Southern Phenomena: Includes New Essays Published for the First Time
Queen of the Turtle Derby and Other Southern Phenomena: Includes New Essays Published for the First Time 3.74 avg rating — 610 ratings
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Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons & Dragons and The People Who Play It
Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons & Dragons and The People Who Play It 3.72 avg rating — 5,014 ratings
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The Trials of Arthur
The Trials of Arthur 4.16 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Skinhead... The Life I Chose
Skinhead... The Life I Chose 3.64 avg rating — 962 ratings
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Comic Book Culture: Fanboys and True Believers
Comic Book Culture: Fanboys and True Believers 3.34 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks 3.86 avg rating — 8,102 ratings
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Walden, or Life in the Woods
Walden, or Life in the Woods 3.78 avg rating — 200,848 ratings
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Comics as Culture
Comics as Culture 3.35 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead
The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead 4.10 avg rating — 866 ratings
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Singing the Master: The Emergence of African-American Culture in the Plantation South
Singing the Master: The Emergence of African-American Culture in the Plantation South 3.86 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Grassroots Garveyism: The Universal Negro Improvement Association in the Rural South, 1920-1927 (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
Grassroots Garveyism: The Universal Negro Improvement Association in the Rural South, 1920-1927 (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
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American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America 4.19 avg rating — 14,289 ratings
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Americana: Dispatches from the New Frontier
Americana: Dispatches from the New Frontier 3.85 avg rating — 836 ratings
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Spirit World: Pattern in the Expressive Folk Culture of New Orleans
Spirit World: Pattern in the Expressive Folk Culture of New Orleans 4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The United States of Appalachia: How Southern Mountaineers Brought Independence, Culture, and Enlightenment to America
The United States of Appalachia: How Southern Mountaineers Brought Independence, Culture, and Enlightenment to America 3.75 avg rating — 189 ratings
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Braving Home: Dispatches from the Underwater Town, the Lava-Side Inn, and Other Extreme Locales
Braving Home: Dispatches from the Underwater Town, the Lava-Side Inn, and Other Extreme Locales 3.87 avg rating — 188 ratings
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Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979
Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979 4.52 avg rating — 574 ratings
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American Bee: The National Spelling Bee and the Culture of Word Nerds
American Bee: The National Spelling Bee and the Culture of Word Nerds 3.81 avg rating — 235 ratings
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The Culture of American College Radio
The Culture of American College Radio 1.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean
The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean 4.04 avg rating — 11,332 ratings
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The Hidden History of Capoeira: A Collision of Cultures in the Brazilian Battle Dance
The Hidden History of Capoeira: A Collision of Cultures in the Brazilian Battle Dance 3.70 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Witching Culture: Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America (Contemporary Ethnography)
Witching Culture: Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America (Contemporary Ethnography) 3.94 avg rating — 145 ratings
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Dry Storeroom No. 1
Dry Storeroom No. 1 3.73 avg rating — 1,474 ratings
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Songs About Work: Essays in Occupational Culture for Richard A. Reuss
Songs About Work: Essays in Occupational Culture for Richard A. Reuss 1.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Rainbow at Midnight: Labor and Culture in the 1940s
Rainbow at Midnight: Labor and Culture in the 1940s 3.72 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Country Music Culture: From Hard Times to Heaven (Studies in Popular Culture Series)
Country Music Culture: From Hard Times to Heaven (Studies in Popular Culture Series) 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World 3.84 avg rating — 38,201 ratings
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Blood in the Face: The Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, Nazi Skinheads and the Rise of a New White Culture
Blood in the Face: The Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, Nazi Skinheads and the Rise of a New White Culture 3.67 avg rating — 120 ratings
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Big Dead Place: Inside the Strange and Menacing World of Antarctica
Big Dead Place: Inside the Strange and Menacing World of Antarctica 3.71 avg rating — 645 ratings
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Up, Up, and Oy Vey! How Jewish History, Culture, and Values Shaped the Comic Book Superhero
Up, Up, and Oy Vey! How Jewish History, Culture, and Values Shaped the Comic Book Superhero 3.80 avg rating — 132 ratings
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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America 3.81 avg rating — 63,779 ratings
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Soapbox Rebellion: The Hobo Orator Union and the Free Speech Fights of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1909-1916
Soapbox Rebellion: The Hobo Orator Union and the Free Speech Fights of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1909-1916 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Count Down: Six Kids Vie for Glory at the World's Toughest Math Competition
Count Down: Six Kids Vie for Glory at the World's Toughest Math Competition 3.83 avg rating — 169 ratings
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Fug You: An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs & Counterculture in the Lower East Side
Fug You: An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs & Counterculture in the Lower East Side 4.12 avg rating — 154 ratings
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Empire of Vines: Wine Culture in America
Empire of Vines: Wine Culture in America 4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Southern Cultures: The Fifteenth Anniversary Reader (Caravan Book)
Southern Cultures: The Fifteenth Anniversary Reader (Caravan Book) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Gullah Culture in America
Gullah Culture in America 4.07 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Tinged with Gold: Hop Culture in the United States
Tinged with Gold: Hop Culture in the United States 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture
The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture 4.12 avg rating — 2,631 ratings
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Family Trees: The Peach Culture of the Piedmont
Family Trees: The Peach Culture of the Piedmont liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King
Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King 4.39 avg rating — 629 ratings
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Surf Craft: Design and the Culture of Board Riding
Surf Craft: Design and the Culture of Board Riding 4.33 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Cassadaga: The South's Oldest Spiritualist Community
Cassadaga: The South's Oldest Spiritualist Community 3.59 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Tribes of America: Journalistic Discoveries of Our People and Their Cultures
The Tribes of America: Journalistic Discoveries of Our People and Their Cultures 3.88 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Comic Shop: The Retail Mavericks Who Gave Us a New Geek Culture
Comic Shop: The Retail Mavericks Who Gave Us a New Geek Culture 3.96 avg rating — 156 ratings
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Eden Built by Eves: The Culture of Women's Music Festivals
Eden Built by Eves: The Culture of Women's Music Festivals 4.34 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, and Real Cool Cats: Pulp Fiction and Youth Culture, 1950 to 1980
Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, and Real Cool Cats: Pulp Fiction and Youth Culture, 1950 to 1980 4.45 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture
Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture 3.97 avg rating — 281 ratings
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Gladesmen: Gator Hunters, Moonshiners, and Skiffers
Gladesmen: Gator Hunters, Moonshiners, and Skiffers 3.90 avg rating — 143 ratings
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Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)
Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press) 4.38 avg rating — 47 ratings
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The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture (Volume 2) (American Crossroads)
The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture (Volume 2) (American Crossroads) 3.81 avg rating — 118 ratings
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The Songs of Blind Folk: African American Musicians and the Cultures of Blindness
The Songs of Blind Folk: African American Musicians and the Cultures of Blindness 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Ham Radio's Technical Culture (Inside Technology)
Ham Radio's Technical Culture (Inside Technology) 3.67 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Bridging Southern Cultures: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Bridging Southern Cultures: An Interdisciplinary Approach
by: John Lowe
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality
Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality 4.11 avg rating — 5,446 ratings
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Afro-Pentecostalism: Black Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity in History and Culture
Afro-Pentecostalism: Black Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity in History and Culture
by: Amos Yong
4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings