Start with high-confidence social science books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
The Power Elite
C. Wright Mills, Alan Wolfe
In My Father's Country
SAIMA WAHAB
Can't Stop Won't Stop
Jeff Chang, D.J. Kool Herc
Riches for the Poor
Earl Shorris
Rivethead
Ben Hamper
Death of Common Sense
Philip K Howard
Where Is Your Body?
Mari J. Matsuda
The True and Invisible Rosicrucian Order
Paul Foster Case
The Profession of City Planning
Lloyd Rodwin
The Renaissance: All That Matters
Michael Halvorson
The Economy of Algorithms
Marek Kowalkiewicz, Stephen Perring
As a Man Thinketh & the Way of Peace
James Allen
The Emperor of All Maladies
Siddhartha Mukherjee, Fred Sanders