Society & Culture Book Summaries
71 summaries to read or listen to in 15 minutes.
The Tipping Point
Malcolm Gladwell
11 min read
Factfulness
Hans Rosling
14 min read
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
14 min read
Bowling Alone
Robert Putnam
13 min read
Humankind
Rutger Bregman
13 min read
Caste
Isabel Wilkerson
16 min read
Homo Deus
Yuval Noah Harari
15 min read
Invisible Women
Caroline Criado Perez
12 min read
Why We're Polarized
Ezra Klein
13 min read
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
12 min read
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Neil Postman
15 min read
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote
11 min read
Can't Even
Anne Helen Petersen
13 min read
Human Compatible
Stuart Russell
15 min read
Justice
Michael Sandel
12 min read
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
12 min read
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond
13 min read
Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell
13 min read
The Coddling of the American Mind
Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
14 min read
All About Love
bell hooks
13 min read
Bringing Up Bébé
Pamela Druckerman
12 min read
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Jack Weatherford
13 min read
Hillbilly Elegy
J.D. Vance
14 min read
Born a Crime
Trevor Noah
14 min read
I Am Malala
Malala Yousafzai
12 min read
The Silk Roads
Peter Frankopan
18 min read
The Coming Wave
Mustafa Suleyman
13 min read
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
14 min read
The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson
13 min read
The Righteous Mind
Jonathan Haidt
14 min read
SPQR
Mary Beard
15 min read
1984
George Orwell
12 min read
The Republic
Plato
13 min read
Killers of the Flower Moon
David Grann
12 min read
Talking to Strangers
Malcolm Gladwell
14 min read
Words That Work
Frank Luntz
12 min read
The Burnout Society
Byung-Chul Han
13 min read
In Defense of Food
Michael Pollan
12 min read
The Blue Zones
Dan Buettner
13 min read
Anti-Diet
Christy Harrison
13 min read
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
12 min read
Lost Connections
Johann Hari
15 min read
Noise
Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass Sunstein
14 min read
The Gift of Fear
Gavin de Becker
11 min read
Nudge
Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein
11 min read
Behave
Robert Sapolsky
14 min read
The Anxious Generation
Jonathan Haidt
12 min read
Stolen Focus
Johann Hari
14 min read
Sex at Dawn
Christopher Ryan
13 min read
Untrue
Wednesday Martin
14 min read
Hunt, Gather, Parent
Michaeleen Doucleff
16 min read
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
12 min read
The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls
13 min read
Becoming
Michelle Obama
13 min read
AI Superpowers
Kai-Fu Lee
15 min read
Empire of AI
Karen Hao
14 min read
Superintelligence
Nick Bostrom
17 min read
Life 3.0
Max Tegmark
12 min read
Lean In
Sheryl Sandberg
14 min read
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X and Alex Haley
14 min read
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