🏛️ Politics & Society · United States
Best Politics & Society Books from United States
Political and social non-fiction maps the world as it is — its power structures, its inequalities, its contradictions — and sometimes imagines what it could be. United States has produced some of the most internationally recognised works in politics & society, with titles that have appeared on major prize lists and critical surveys worldwide. This page ranks the best politics & society from United States by editorial consensus.
#1
science-fiction
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin· 1975
★Hugo Award★Nebula Award
Editorial Score83/100
#2
literary-fiction
All the King's Men
Robert Penn Warren· 1947
★Pulitzer Prize
Editorial Score62/100
#3
science-fiction
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Robert A. Heinlein· 1967
★Hugo Award
Editorial Score57/100
#4
politics-society
How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi· 2019
Goodreads Choice Award
Editorial Score46/100
#5
literary-fiction
Native Son
Richard Wright· 1940
TIME 100 Best Novels
Editorial Score45/100
#6
politics-society
The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander· 2010
Goodreads Choice Award
Editorial Score44/100
#7
science-nature
The Sixth Extinction
Elizabeth Kolbert· 2014
Goodreads Choice Award
Editorial Score43/100
#8
politics-society
Orientalism
Edward Said· 1978
ALA Notable Books
Editorial Score41/100
#9
science-nature
Silent Spring
Rachel Carson· 1962
Goodreads Choice Award
Editorial Score40/100
#10
science-fiction
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury· 1953
TIME 100 Best Novels
Editorial Score40/100
#11
biography-memoir
Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau· 1800
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score40/100
#12
literary-fiction
The Sellout
Paul Beatty· 2016
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score37/100
#13
politics-society
The Feminine Mystique
Betty Friedan· 1963
ALA Notable Books
Editorial Score35/100
#14
cooking-food
Inside the FDA
Fran Hawthorne· 2005
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#15
psychology
Escape attempts
Stanley Cohen· 1976
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score35/100
#16
psychology
How to retire happy
Stan Hinden· 2000
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score35/100
#17
psychology
The Road to Character
David Brooks· 2015
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#18
politics-society
The Theory of Social Revolutions
Brooks Adams· 1913
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score35/100
#19
politics-society
Constituting human rights
Mervyn Frost· 2001
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score35/100
#20
politics-society
Life of Horace Mann
Mary Tyler Peabody Mann· 1865
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#21
politics-society
Life without principle
Henry David Thoreau· 1902
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score35/100
#22
politics-society
Culture of complaint
Robert Hughes· 1993
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#23
politics-society
The life and letters of William Cobbett in England & America, based upon histherto unpublished family papers
Lewis Melville· 1913
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score35/100
#24
politics-society
Creative Cartoonist
Dick Gautier· 1989
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#25
politics-society
The Career of a Tinpot Napoleon
John Kingston Fineran· 1932
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#26
politics-society
Pointed Roofs. Pilgrimage
Dorothy Richardson· 1915
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score35/100
#27
politics-society
The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi
Joseph G. Baldwin· 1853
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score35/100
#28
politics-society
Social theory and social structure
Robert King Merton· 1949
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score35/100
#29
politics-society
Contemporary sociological theory
Ruth A. Wallace· 1924
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score35/100
#30
politics-society
Human society
Kingsley Davis· 1948
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#31
politics-society
Essays in sociology and social philosophy
Ginsberg, Morris· 1947
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score35/100
#32
politics-society
AWOL
Kathy Roth-Douquet· 2006
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#33
politics-society
Standards in public life
Great Britain. Committee on Standards in Public Life.· 1995
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#34
politics-society
Rage au cœur
Ingrid Betancourt· 1975
Library Journal
Editorial Score30/100
#35
politics-society
Fleeced
Dick Morris· 2008
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#36
politics-society
Your Government Failed You
Richard A. Clarke· 2008
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#37
politics-society
Outrage
Dick Morris· 2007
Library Journal
Editorial Score30/100
#38
politics-society
Race-ing justice, en-gendering power
Toni Morrison· 1992
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#39
politics-society
The United States and the Southwest Pacific. --
Clinton Hartley Grattan· 1961
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score30/100
#40
politics-society
Five things to know about the Australian Constitution
Helen Irving· 2004
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#41
politics-society
Fire in the lake
Frances FitzGerald· 1972
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#42
politics-society
Past and present school activities and school program of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, in seven centers of its Mexican work
Thomas Parke Hughes· 2001
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score30/100
#43
politics-society
Dream of unity
Claude Emerson Welch· 1966
Library Journal
Editorial Score30/100
#44
politics-society
The death of conservatism
Sam Tanenhaus· 2009
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score30/100
#45
politics-society
Sideshow
Lindsay Tanner· 2011
Library Journal
Editorial Score30/100
#46
politics-society
Leviathan on the Right
Michael D. Tanner· 2007
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#47
politics-society
Co-ed Combat
Kingsley Browne· 2007
Library Journal
Editorial Score30/100
#48
politics-society
For a New Liberty
Murray N. Rothbard· 1986
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#49
politics-society
Frost/Nixon
David Frost· 2007
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#50
politics-society
Pink Ribbons, Inc
Samantha King· 2006
Library Journal
Editorial Score30/100
