Books similar like Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence

The Sum of Small Things: A Theory of the Aspirational Class

Buy this book on Amazon

Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality

Two young women, dormitory mates, embark on their education at a big state university. Five years later, one is earning a good salary at a prestigious accounting firm. With no loans to repay, she live…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Really Dead Wives of New Jersey

A propulsive page-turning thriller following the hit reality TV show Garden State Goddesses where secrets are uncovered, intense rivalries surface, and a startling murder propels a producer on a rivet…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Rich People Have Gone Away

Buy this book on Amazon

Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts

Meditations for Mortals takes us on a liberating journey towards a more meaningful life – one that begins not with fantasies of the ideal existence, but with the reality in which we actually find ours…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Status Revolution: The Improbable Story of How the Lowbrow Became the Highbrow

Buy this book on Amazon

Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis

Housing is an investment. Investment prices must go up. Housing is shelter. When the price of shelter goes up, people experience distress.

This is the housing trap. It’s time to escape. In Escaping the…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Perfection Trap: Embracing the Power of Good Enough

Buy this book on Amazon

Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer

Buy this book on Amazon

You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip

A delightfully insightful exploration of our obsession with gossip that weaves together journalism, cultural criticism, and memoir, from the host of the massively popular Normal Gossip podcast.

Can yo…

Buy this book on Amazon

Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts

An innovative investigation of the five strange worlds that worship women’s chests

After years of biopsies, best-selling author Sarah Thornton made the difficult decision to have a double mastectomy, b…

Buy this book on Amazon

Ordinary Notes

A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Black life that emerge in the wake. In a series of 248 notes that gather meaning as we read them, Christ…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

The Protestant ethic — a moral code stressing hard work, rigorous self-discipline, and the organization of one's life in the service of God — was made famous by sociologist and political economist Max…

Buy this book on Amazon

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

In Evicted, Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exp…

Buy this book on Amazon

How to Let Things Go: 99 Tips from a Zen Buddhist Monk to Relinquish Control and Free Yourself Up for What Matters

Feeling overwhelmed? Step away from life's demands and free yourself up for what matters with this succinct and sensible guide by the Zen Buddhist author of the international bestsellers The Art of Si…

Buy this book on Amazon

Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV

Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away from it? In this revelatory, deeply reported account of the rise of “dirty documentary,” Emily Nussbau…

Buy this book on Amazon

Having and Being Had

Buy this book on Amazon

Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price

Buy this book on Amazon

Primates of Park Avenue

Like an urban Dian Fossey, Wednesday Martin decodes the primate social behaviors of Upper East Side mothers in a brilliantly original and witty memoir about her adventures assimilating into that most …

Buy this book on Amazon

Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus

National Book Award finalist Breathless tells the story of the worldwide scientific race to decipher the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, trace its source, and make possible the vaccines to fight the Covid-19 …

Buy this book on Amazon

Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence

Similar books (20)