Social & Cultural History

Homo Deus

Yuval Noah Harari 2024
(4.5)

Over the past century humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war. For the first time...

Caste : The Origins of Our Discontents

Isabel Wilkerson 2024
(4.5)

"Magnificent . . . a trailblazing work on the birth of inequality . . . Caste offers a forward-facing vision. Bursting w...

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates 2024
(4.5)

In the 150 years since the end of the Civil War and the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, the story of race and...

The Address Book by Deirdre Mask

Deirdre Mask 2024
(4.5)

An exuberant work of popular history: the story of how streets got their names and houses their numbers, and why somethi...

A Black Women's History of the United States

Daina Ramey Berry 2024
(4.5)

2021 NAACP Image Award Nominee: Outstanding Literary Work – Non-FictionHonorable Mention for the 2021 Organization of Am...

Can't Even

Anne Helen Petersen 2024
(4.5)

A BEST BOOK OF THE FALL AS SEEN IN: Apartment Therapy - Book Riot - Business Insider - BuzzFeed - Daily Nebraskan - Ente...

Franci's War

Franci Epstein 2024
(4.5)

What are you willing to do to survive? What are you willing to endure if it means you might live?'Achingly moving, give...

London Made Us

Robert Elms 2024
(4.5)

'London is a giant kaleidoscope, which is forever turning. Take your eye off it for more th...

The Tipping Point

Malcolm Gladwell 2024
(4.5)

The tipping point' is that magic moment when an idea, trend or social phenomenon crosses a...

Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race

Reni Eddo-Lodge 2024
(4.5)

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFOYLES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARBLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARWINNER OF THE JHA...