Best Social History Books

A selection of recommended social history books worth reading.

• When God was a WomanMerlin Stone
• Lessons of HistoryWill Durant, Ariel Durant
• Caste The Origins of Our DiscontentsIsabel Wilkerson
• On the MarkFlorence Hazrat
• StrongmenRuth Ben-Ghiat
• Trick or TreatLisa Morton
• Energy and Civilization A HistoryVaclav Smil
• The Proud Tower A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War SeriesBarbara W. Tuchman
• Wordslut A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English LanguageAmanda Montell
• Bad LawElie Mystal
• Righteous VictimsBenny Morris
• WitchcraftMarion Gibson
• UpheavalJared Diamond
• Tell My Horse Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica Harper Perennial Modern ClassZora Neale Hurston
• Homo DeusYuval Noah Harari
• The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory American Evangelicals in an Age of ExtremismTim Alberta
• The Point of the Needle Why Sewing MattersBarbara Burman