300 Social sciences
210 books in this stack, divided by Dewey ten-class.
300 Social sciences · 59
On the Postcolony
Achille Mbembe
2000
Recommended
The Rebel
Albert Camus
1951
Must-Read
Exit, Voice, and Loyalty
Albert O. Hirschman
1970
Must-Read
Bursts
Albert‑László Barabási
2010
Must-Read
Ecological Imperialism
Alfred W. Crosby
1986
Recommended
All About Love
bell hooks
2000
RecommendedBertrand Russell - In Praise of Idleness
Bertrand Russell
1935
Recommended
Psychopolitics
Byung-Chul Han
2014
RecommendedWomen and Economics
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
1898
Recommended
Silicon Snake Oil
Cliff Stoll
1995
Must-Read
Race Matters
Cornel West
1993
Recommended
Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance
Douglass North
1990
Must-Read
Propaganda
Edward Bernays
1928
Recommended
Representations of the Intellectual
Edward Said
1994
Must-Read
Understanding Institutional Diversity
Elinor Ostrom
2005
Must-Read
Wise Blood
Flannery O'Connor
1952
RecommendedBlack Skin, White Masks
Frantz Fanon
1952
Must-ReadWhat's Wrong with the World
G. K. Chesterton
1910
RecommendedIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet A. Jacobs
1861
Recommended
Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau
1800
Must-Read
One-Dimensional Man
Herbert Marcuse
1964
RecommendedHow the Other Half Lives
Jacob August Riis
1890
Recommended
Notes of a Native Son
James Baldwin
1955
Must-Read
Art of Not Being Governed
James C Scott
2009
Recommended
Weapons of the Weak
James C Scott
1986
Must-ReadDemocracy and Social Ethics
Jane Addams
1902
Recommended
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs
1961
Must-Read
Collapse
Jared Diamond
2005
Must-Read
Guns Germs and Steel
Jared Diamond
1997
Must-ReadHuman Nature and Conduct
John Dewey
1922
Recommended+ 29 more in Social sciences.
320 Political science · 60
Revolution for the Hell of It
Abbie Hoffman
1968
Recommended
Discourse on Colonialism
Aimé Césaire
1972
Recommended
The Rhetoric of Reaction
Albert O. Hirschman
1991
Must-Read
Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville
1835
Must-Read
The Craft of Intelligence
Allen Dulles
1963
Must-ReadPolitics
Aristotle
350 BCE
Must-Read
Imagined Communities
Benedict Anderson
1983
Must-Read
The Concept of the Political
Carl Schmitt
1976
Must-Read
On the Political
Chantal Mouffe
2005
Recommended
De Monarchia
Dante Alighieri
1904
Must-Read
The Making of the English Working Class
E.P. Thompson
1963
Must-Read
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Edmund Burke
1791
Must-Read
Political Order and Political Decay
Francis Fukuyama
2014
Must-ReadThe Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon
1961
Must-ReadScience of Logic
G.W.F. Hegel
1843
Must-Read
On Revolution
Hannah Arendt
1956
Must-Read
Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt
1951
Must-ReadThe Concept of Representation
Hannah Pitkin
1967
Recommended
The Art of Intelligence
Henry Crumpton
2012
Must-Read
Nobody Knows My Name
James Baldwin
1961
Must-Read
The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
1962
Must-Read
Body of Secrets
James Bamford
1998
Must-Read
The Puzzle Palace
James Bamford
1982
Must-Read
The Shadow Factory
James Bamford
2008
Must-Read
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1922
Must-Read
Social Contract
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1762
Must-ReadThe Public and Its Problems
John Dewey
1927
Recommended
Second Treatise of Government
John Locke
1689
Must-Read
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
John Mearsheimer
2001
Must-Read
Political Liberalism
John Rawls
1993
Recommended+ 30 more in Political science.
330 Economics · 37
Steal This Book
Abbie Hoffman
1971
Recommended
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
1776
Must-Read
Development as Freedom
Amartya Sen
1999
Must-Read
Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Antonio Gramsci
1971
Must-ReadRoads to Freedom
Bertrand Russell
1918
RecommendedThe Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
Bertrand Russell
1920
Recommended
Black Marxism
Cedric J. Robinson
1983
Must-ReadWhy Nations Fail
Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
2012
Must-ReadDebt: The First 5000 Years
David Graeber
2011
Must-Read
Principles of Political Economy
David Ricardo
1817
Recommended
The Rhetoric of Economics
Deirdre McCloskey
1982
RecommendedThe Diversity of Life
E.O. Wilson
1992
RecommendedPrices and Production
Friedrich Hayek
1931
Must-Read
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
Ha-Joon Chang
2011
Recommended
Kicking Away the Ladder
Ha-Joon Chang
2002
Recommended
Specters of Marx
Jacques Derrida
1994
Must-ReadPublic Choice II
James Buchanan & Gordon Tullock
1984
Must-Read
The Managerial Revolution
James Burnham
1941
Recommended
Seeing Like a State
James C Scott
1998
Must-Read
The Affluent Society
John Kenneth Galbraith
1958
Recommended
The New Industrial State
John Kenneth Galbraith
1967
Recommended
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
John Maynard Keynes
1935
Must-ReadUnto This Last
John Ruskin
2005
Recommended
Capitalism Socialism and Democracy
Joseph Schumpeter
1942
Must-Read
The Great Transformation
Karl Polanyi
1944
Must-Read
Human Action
Ludwig von Mises
1949
Must-Read
Power and Prosperity
Mancur Olson
2000
Must-Read
A Monetary History of the United States
Milton Friedman
1963
Must-Read
Capitalism and Freedom
Milton Friedman
1962
Must-Read
Free to Choose
Milton Friedman
1980
Must-Read+ 7 more in Economics.
340 Law · 10
The Federalist Papers
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
1788
Must-ReadThe Return
Canada. Parliament. House of Commons
1918
Recommended
Philosophy of Right
G.W.F. Hegel
1896
Must-Read
Eichmann in Jerusalem
Hannah Arendt
1963
Must-ReadNo Treason
Henry Seymour, Lysander Spooner
1867
Recommended
Second Thoughts
Michel Butor
1685
Must-Read
The Return of Martin Guerre
Natalie Zemon Davis
1982
Recommended
Agency
Roderick Munday
2010
RecommendedMy Own Words
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
2016
RecommendedPrivacy on the Line
Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau
1998
Must-Read350 Public administration · 7
On War
Carl von Clausewitz
1968
Must-Read
It Doesn't Take a Hero
H. Norman Schwarzkopf
1992
Recommended
A History of Warfare
John Keegan
1993
Must-Read
Intelligence in War
John Keegan
2003
Must-Read
The Face of Battle
John Keegan
1976
Must-ReadThe Conquest of Bread
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin (kni︠a︡zʹ)
1892
RecommendedCyber War
Richard A. Clarke and Robert K. Knake
2010
Must-Read360 Social problems & services · 18
The Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
1973
Must-Read
Sandworm
Andy Greenberg
2019
Must-Read
This Machine Kills Secrets
Andy Greenberg
2012
Must-Read
Gulag
Anne Applebaum
2003
Must-Read
The Hacker Crackdown
Bruce Sterling
1992
Must-Read
Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell
1933
Must-ReadGlobal Environmental Politics
Hayley Stevenson
2017
Recommended
Hell's Angels
Hunter S. Thompson
1967
RecommendedYou Can't Win
Jack Black
1926
RecommendedTwenty Years at Hull House
Jane Addams
1910
Recommended
Ghost in the Wires
Kevin Mitnick
2011
Must-Read
Kingpin
Kevin Poulsen
2010
RecommendedThe Golden Triangle
Ko-lin Chin
2011
Recommended
Discipline and Punish
Michel Foucault
1975
Must-Read
The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander
2010
Must-Read
Silent Spring
Rachel Carson
1962
Must-ReadSkating on Stilts
Stewart Baker
2010
Recommended
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Tom Wolfe
1968
Recommended370 Education · 5
380 Commerce · 1
390 Customs & folklore · 13
Folktales from India
A.K. Ramanujan
1991
Recommended
The Book of the Courtier
Baldassare Castiglione
1959
Recommended
Legends of Vancouver
E. Pauline Johnson
1911
RecommendedAt the Back of the North Wind
George MacDonald
1871
Recommended
Household Tales
Jacob Grimm
2012
Recommended
The Maxims of Ptahhotep
Ptahhotep
1990
Must-ReadVikram and the Vampire
Richard F. Burton
1870
Recommended
1001 Arabian Nights
Scheherazade
2010
RecommendedBulfinch's Mythology
Thomas Bulfinch
1867
RecommendedIrish Fairy Tales
W.B. Yeats
2022
RecommendedThe Wood Beyond the World
William Morris
1894
RecommendedOld Indian Legends
Zitkala-Sa
1901
Recommended
Mules and Men
Zora Neale Hurston
1935
Must-Read