Start with high-confidence social policy books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
The Nordic Theory of Everything
Anu Partanen
Reign of Error
Diane Ravitch
$2.00 a Day
Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer
Mutualism
Sara Horowitz
Poverty, by America
Matthew Desmond
Creating Capabilities
Martha C. Nussbaum
Licensing Racket
Rebecca Haw Allensworth
American Prison
Shane Bauer
Inside American Education
Thomas Sowell
Of Boys and Men
Richard V. Reeves
Saving International Adoption
Mark Montgomery, Irene Powell
The Case for Rural America
J. Tom Mueller
Failure
Vicki E. Alger
Why Meadow Died
Andrew Pollack, Max Eden
