Society & Culture

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Matthew Desmond

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

Katherine Boo

We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

Roxanna Asgarian

Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

Andrew Solomon

There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

Brian Goldstone

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

Richard Hofstadter

No Visible Bruises: What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

Rachel Louise Snyder

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

Barbara Demick

Janesville: An American Story

Amy Goldstein

La Vida: A Puerto Rican Family in the Culture of Poverty—San Juan and New York

Oscar Lewis

The Broken Cord: A Family's Ongoing Struggle with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

Michael Dorris

Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China

Evan Osnos

Disappearing through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century

O. B. Hardison, Jr.

Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture

Carl E. Schorske

The Right Stuff

Tom Wolfe

Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx

Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care

Nina Bernstein

South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

Imani Perry

A History of Building Types

Nikolaus Pevsner

A Place Within: Rediscovering India

M. G. Vassanji

Aki-wayn-zih: A Person as Worthy as the Earth

Eli Baxter

Canadian Mosaic

John Murray Gibbon

Children of Crisis, Volumes II and III

Robert Coles

Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima

Robert Jay Lifton

Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper

Nicholson Baker

Feel Free: Essays

Zadie Smith

Four Hundred Million Customers: The Experiences—Some Happy, Some Sad, of an American Living in China, and What They Taught Him

Carl Crow

Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life

Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler,, Steven M. Tipton

Haida

William Sclater

Hunting Tigers Under Glass

Mordecai Richler

Julia Child and More Company

Julia Child

Lost in the Cosmos

Walker Percy

NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently

Steve Silberman

Rogue Primate: An Exploration of Human Domestication

John A. Livingston

Sidewalk

Mitchell Duneier with Ovie Carter (photographer)

Slava Bohu

J. F. C. Wright

Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream

Mychal Denzel Smith

The Country Kitchen

Della T. Lutes

The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations

Christopher Lasch

The Denial of Death

Ernest Becker

The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection

Michael Harris

The Last Whole Earth Catalogue

Stewart Brand

The Measure of Man

Joseph Wood Krutch

The Regenerators: Social Criticism in Late Victorian English Canada

Ramsay Cook

The Transformation of the School

Lawrence A. Cremin

The Unconscious Civilization

John Ralston Saul

This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart

Madhur Anand

Unearthing

Kyo Maclear

Why Survive?: Being Old in America

Robert N. Butler

Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author

Clifford Geertz