Start with high-confidence social science essays books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
Doris Lessing
All About Love
bell hooks
Not That Bad
Roxane Gay
Asylums
Erving Goffman
The Best American Essays of the Century
Joyce Carol Oates
Nothing Personal
James Baldwin, Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Medicine Stories
Aurora Levins Morales
