Guide No Longer Updated
As of July 2023 this guide—started during the early days of the COVID 19 pandemic—is no longer being actively updated or maintained. For an up-to-date listing of popular social science eBooks (and audio books) please see the Sociology section in OverDrive/Libby.
Social Science
Books are listed by author's surname.
Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781786614919Publication Date: 2021
Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth (Second Edition) by ISBN: 9781501380761Publication Date: 2022
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by ISBN: 9781595586438Publication Date: 2012
The New Jim Crow (10th Anniversary Edition) by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781620971949Publication Date: 2020
Forever Free: A True Story of Hope in the Fight for Child Literacy by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781635420814Publication Date: 2021
The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction: 1948–1985 by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780807006573Publication Date: 2021
Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists, The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How it Affects Us All by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781728236254Publication Date: 2021
White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781982134433Publication Date: 2021
Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780691222899Publication Date: 2022
It's Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781421443881Publication Date: 2022
The Future Normal: How We Will Live, Work and Thrive in the Next Decade by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781646871438Publication Date: 2023
One Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780807073377Publication Date: 2021
Twenty Years of Life: Why the Poor Die Earlier and How to Challenge Inequity by ISBN: 9781610918015Publication Date: 2018
We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781849354233Publication Date: 2021
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by ISBN: 9781524760854Publication Date: 2018
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780399592577Publication Date: 2021
Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality by ISBN: 9781610918794Publication Date: 2018
After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics—and How to Fix It by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780063077010Publication Date: 2022
The Activist Academic: Engaged Scholarship for Resistance, Hope and Social Change by ISBN: 9781975501402Publication Date: 2020
Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to Get an Abortion in America by ISBN: 9780520306646Publication Date: 2020
Now You're Talking: Human Conversation From the Neanderthals to Artificial Intelligence by ISBN: 9781640090798Publication Date: 2018
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Call Number: EBSCO eBooksISBN: 9781419729072Publication Date: 2019
Outraged: Why Everyone Is Shouting and No One Is Talking by ISBN: 9781526605030Publication Date: 2020
The Art of the Lie: How the Manipulation of Language Affects Our Minds by ISBN: 9781633885967Publication Date: 2020
Culture Jamming: Activism and the Art of Cultural Resistance by ISBN: 9781479870967Publication Date: 2017
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by ISBN: 9780807047415Publication Date: 2018
Broken Scales: Race and the Crisis of Justice in a Divided America by ISBN: 9781538138502Publication Date: 2021
Beyond Survival : Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement by ISBN: 9781849353625Publication Date: 2020
Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us about the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans by ISBN: 9781982149673Publication Date: 2021
The Little Book of LGBTQ+: An A-Z of Gender and Sexual Identities by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781627785365Publication Date: 2022
Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781636140308Publication Date: 2022
The Antiracist: How to Start the Conversation about Race and Take Action by ISBN: 9781510764217Publication Date: 2020
The Gaslighting of the Millennial Generation : How to Succeed in a Society That Blames You for Everything Gone Wrong by ISBN: 9781633538856Publication Date: 2019
Of Blood and Sweat: Black Lives and the Making of White Power and Wealth by ISBN: 9780063038516Publication Date: 2022
In Truth: A History of Lies from Ancient Rome to Modern America by ISBN: 9781633886247Publication Date: 2020
Black Food Matters: Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice by Call Number: Project MUSEISBN: 9781517908140Publication Date: 2020
How to They/Them: A Visual Guide to Nonbinary Pronouns and the World of Gender Fluidity by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781632173140Publication Date: 2020
Radical Empathy: Finding a Path to Bridging Racial Divides by ISBN: 9781447357247Publication Date: 2021
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and it's urgent lessons for our own by ISBN: 9780525575344Publication Date: 2020
The Strong Black Woman: How a Myth Endangers the Physical and Mental Health of Black Women by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781642506839Publication Date: 2021
Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781620971789Publication Date: 2020
Radicalizing Her: Why Women Choose Violence by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780807013601Publication Date: 2021
Won't Lose This Dream: How an Upstart Urban University Rewrote the Rules of a Broken System by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781620974704Publication Date: 2020
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781948226752Publication Date: 2020
Things Worth Keeping: The Value of Attachment in a Disposable World by Call Number: Project MUSEISBN: 9780816677245Publication Date: 2020
N: My Encounter with Racism and the Forbidden Word in an American Classic by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781506479170Publication Date: 2021
The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781523093908Publication Date: 2021
The Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781523001040Publication Date: 2022
Reckoning: The Epic Battle Against Sexual Abuse and Harassment by ISBN: 9781328566447Publication Date: 2019
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781984820372Publication Date: 2020
How to Save the World for Just a Trillion Dollars: The Ten Biggest Problems We Can Actually Fix by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781615198290Publication Date: 2022
Project Censored's State of the Free Press 2021 by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781644210277Publication Date: 2020
Everyone Versus Racism: A Letter to My Children by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780008443993Publication Date: 2020
One Fair Wage: Ending Subminimum Pay in America by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781620975336Publication Date: 2021
When We Fight, We Win: Twenty-First-Century Social Movements and the Activists That Are Transforming Our World by ISBN: 9781620970935Publication Date: 2016
We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781642595260Publication Date: 2021
Who Am I?: The Story of a London Art Studio for Asylum Seekers and Refugees by ISBN: 9780750993012Publication Date: 2020
Money Rock: A Family’s Story of Cocaine, Race, and Ambition in the New South by ISBN: 9781620973271Publication Date: 2018
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780525560555Publication Date: 2020
Make Change: How to Fight Injustice, Dismantle Systemic Oppression, and Own Our Future by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780358048015Publication Date: 2020
How You Say It: Why You Talk the Way You Do—And What It Says About You by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780544987425Publication Date: 2020
Retail Inequality: Reframing the Food Desert Debate by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780520384194Publication Date: 2021
The Environmentalist's Dilemma: Promise and Peril in an Age of Climate Crisis by ISBN: 9781770416093Publication Date: 2021
Blur: How to Know What's True in the Age of Information Overload by ISBN: 9781608193011Publication Date: 2011
The Believer: Encounters with the Beginning, the End, and Our Place in the Middle by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781953534071Publication Date: 2022
Living in the Long Emergency: Global Crisis, the Failure of the Futurists, and the Early Adapters Who Are Showing Us the Way Forward by Call Number: EBSCO eBooksISBN: 9781948836937Publication Date: 2020
If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781631496110Publication Date: 2020
The Illustrated Feminist: 100 Years of Suffrage, Strength, and Sisterhood in America by ISBN: 9781419742118Publication Date: 2020
White People and Black Lives Matter: Ignorance, Empathy, and Justice by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9783030224899Publication Date: 2019
Education Without Debt: Giving Back and Paying It Forward by ISBN: 9780253051431Publication Date: 2021
The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite by Call Number: EBSCO eBooksISBN: 9780735221994Publication Date: 2019
Crazy Horse Weeps: The Challenge of Being Lakota in White America by ISBN: 9781682750254Publication Date: 2019
The Metric Society: On the Quantification of the Social by ISBN: 9781509530403Publication Date: 2019
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780525509578Publication Date: 2021
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781942094487Publication Date: 2017
I Am the Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781786185709Publication Date: 2023
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780062993175Publication Date: 2021
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781568587615Publication Date: 2017
Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn't Enough by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781646220731Publication Date: 2023
Red Pill, Blue Pill: How to Counteract the Conspiracy Theories That Are Killing Us by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781633886278Publication Date: 2020
The Shame Game: Overturning the Toxic Poverty Narrative by ISBN: 9781447349266Publication Date: 2020
Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781641605311Publication Date: 2022
The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780544947580Publication Date: 2021
The Innocent Classroom: Dismantling Racial Bias to Support Students of Color by ISBN: 9781416629337Publication Date: 2020- Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Call Number: EBSCO eBooksISBN: 9781419729072Publication Date: 2019
Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780358315070Publication Date: 2020
The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic by ISBN: 9781419752957Publication Date: 2021
Haste to Rise: A Remarkable Experience of Black Education during Jim Crow by ISBN: 9781629637907Publication Date: 2020
Criminal Contagion: How Mafias, Gangsters and Scammers Profit from a Pandemic by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781787384460Publication Date: 2021
Speaking of Race: How to Have Antiracist Conversations That Bring Us Together by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781615197330Publication Date: 2021Everyday Bias: Identifying and Navigating Unconscious Judgments in Our Daily Lives by
ISBN: 9781442230842Publication Date: 2020
How to Argue with a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781615196722Publication Date: 2020
She/He/They/Me: For the Sisters, Misters, and Binary Resisters by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781492666950Publication Date: 2019
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by ISBN: 9781728209807Publication Date: 2020
Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780062877093Publication Date: 2020
Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781642830842Publication Date: 2020
Bad Data: Why We Measure the Wrong Things and Often Miss the Metrics That Matter by ISBN: 9781633885905Publication Date: 2020
Speaking of Feminism: Today's Activists on the Past, Present, and Future of the U. S. Women's Movement by ISBN: 9781469653075Publication Date: 2019
The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781662650826Publication Date: 2022
The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making by ISBN: 9781640091818Publication Date: 2019
The Punitive Turn in American Life: How the United States Learned to Fight Crime Like a War by Call Number: Project MUSEISBN: 9781469660707Publication Date: 2020
Are You Prepared for a Disaster? : Mitigation and Management of Disasters by ISBN: 9789389351941Publication Date: 2020
The Cost of Inclusion: How Student Conformity Leads to Inequality on College Campuses by ISBN: 9780226703862Publication Date: 2020
Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid During the Covid-19 Crisis by ISBN: 9780745343167Publication Date: 2020
Making Monsters: The Uncanny Power of Dehumanization by Call Number: De GruyterISBN: 9780674269781Publication Date: 2021
Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781642599305Publication Date: 2023
Far from the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity by ISBN: 9780743236720Publication Date: 2013
Divided: Racism, Medicine and Why We Need to Decolonise Healthcare by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781788169202Publication Date: 2023
How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish by ISBN: 9781632062628Publication Date: 2020
Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780393341485Publication Date: 2011
Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right Is Warping the American Imagination by ISBN: 9780807063361Publication Date: 2019
The Conflict Over the Conflict : The Israel/Palestine Campus Debate by ISBN: 9781487507367Publication Date: 2020
My Body My Choice: The Fight for Abortion Rights by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781459817142Publication Date: 2019
The 9.9 Percent: The New Aristocracy That Is Entrenching Inequality and Warping Our Culture by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781982114206Publication Date: 2021
The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better by ISBN: 9781419743030Publication Date: 2020
Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing to Us by ISBN: 9781468315899Publication Date: 2018
Sludge: What Stops Us from Getting Things Done and What to Do about It by Call Number: MIT Press DirectISBN: 9780262045780Publication Date: 2021
Hate Inc. : Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another by ISBN: 9781949017250Publication Date: 2019
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781608468683Publication Date: 2017
Too Many Times: How to End Gun Violence in a Divided AmericaISBN: 9781612198798Publication Date: 2020
The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us by ISBN: 9780544944480Publication Date: 2019
Black Like Who?: Writing • Black • Canada by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781554832071Publication Date: 2018
Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781643752198Publication Date: 2022
Think Like a White Man: A Satirical Guide to Conquering the World ... While Black by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781786894397Publication Date: 2019
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780593230268Publication Date: 2020
White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America by ISBN: 9781633698215Publication Date: 2020
Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781466896055Publication Date: 2016
Becoming Disabled: Forging a Disability View of the World by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781793643704Publication Date: 2021
Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781523091324Publication Date: 2020
Beyond Racial Division: A Unifying Alternative to Colorblindness and Antiracism by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781514001851Publication Date: 2022
Say the Right Thing: How to Talk About Identity, Diversity, and Justice by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781982181406Publication Date: 2023
From the Edge of the Ghetto: African Americans and the World of Work by ISBN: 9780742570092Publication Date: 2019
Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781324006626Publication Date: 2021
Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780807054987Publication Date: 2021
