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The Most-Rated Social Science Audiobooks

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, 3,698 unabridged Social Science audiobooks in our catalog carry store ratings. These are the 25 with the most ratings.

The Social Science shelf sits under Non-Fiction on the store.

The list

#TitleAuthorLength
1Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't KnowMalcolm Gladwell9 hrs
2Hillbilly ElegyJ. D. Vance6.8 hrs
3Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind: The multi-million copy bestsellerYuval Noah Harari15.3 hrs
4The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed AmericaErik Larson15 hrs
5Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space RaceMargot Lee Shetterly10.8 hrs
6Between the World and MeTa-Nehisi Coates3.6 hrs
7When Breath Becomes AirPaul Kalanithi5.5 hrs
8Caste (Oprah's Book Club): The Origins of Our DiscontentsIsabel Wilkerson15.2 hrs
9In Cold BloodTruman Capote14.5 hrs
10White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About RacismRobin DiAngelo6.4 hrs
11KindredOctavia E. Butler10.9 hrs
12The Immortal Life of Henrietta LacksRebecca Skloot12.5 hrs
13Homo Deus: A Brief History of TomorrowYuval Noah Harari14.9 hrs
14The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota HistoryJoseph Marshall11 hrs
15Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human SocietiesJared Diamond16.4 hrs
16How to Be an AntiracistIbram X. Kendi10.5 hrs
17Freakonomics Rev EdSteven D. Levitt7.9 hrs
18Braving the Wilderness: Reese's Book Club: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand AloneBrené Brown4.2 hrs
19The Gifts of Imperfection: 10th Anniversary Edition: Features a new forewordBrené Brown4.5 hrs
20Homo Deus: The million-copy bestseller from the author of NexusYuval Noah Harari14.9 hrs
21Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of IndulgenceAnna Lembke6.2 hrs
22The Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat PlantationCandace Owens6.9 hrs
23Come As You Are: Revised and Updated: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex LifeEmily Nagoski12.8 hrs
24The 1619 Project: A New Origin StoryNikole Hannah-Jones19 hrs
25The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,Michelle Alexander16.9 hrs

Ordered by the number of store ratings, most first; the counts are used only for ordering and never shown. A rating count measures popularity, never quality. Computed from unabridged English-language audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026); children's titles are not ranked. Methodology.

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