Sociology book series in reading order

H.G. Wells

152 books• 8 series

H.G. Wells, born Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946), was an English writer of more than forty novels and dozens of short stories. Science fiction novels are the work Wells is most known for today, and Wells shares the title of father of science fiction with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback. The non-fiction covers social commentary, politics, history, popular science, satire, biography and autobiography. The catalogue opens with The Chronic Argonauts (1888) and includes The Time Machine (1895), The Wonderful Visit (1895) and The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896). Utopias, civilization and philosophy appear among the subjects.

Maggie Hartley writes non-fiction accounts of foster care in Britain. The catalogue holds 31 books, opening with Tiny Prisoners in 2016 and reaching Please Don't Hurt Me in 2026, with Please Don't Take Her scheduled for 2027. The Maggie Hartley Foster Carer Story series carries most of the run and draws on Hartley's own career in foster care, the children placed with her, and the teenage mothers and ex-foster children whose stories sit alongside theirs.

Cathy Pickens has 10 books in the catalogue, published between 2004 and 2022. Southern Fried Mystery is the series name, and Avery Andrews, women lawyers, Charleston, South Carolina, and haunted places are among the recorded subjects. Southern Fried (2004) is the first title, followed by Done Gone Wrong (2005), Hog Wild (2007), Hush My Mouth (2008) and Can't Never Tell (2009). Later titles include Charlotte True Crime Stories (2019), Triangle True Crime Stories (2021) and True Crime Stories of Upstate South Carolina (2022).

Lisa Wingate

32 books• 10 series

Lisa Wingate has 32 books in this catalogue, from Tending Roses (2001) to The Last Father-Daughter Dance (2026). Texas is among the subjects, and the Wingate series include Texas Hill Country, Moses Lake, Daily, Texas, Carolina Chronicles and Blue Sky Hill, alongside standalone novels and non-fiction. The subjects also cover Christian fiction, Christian romance, historical fiction, farm life, sisters and town life. Good Hope Road and Texas Cooking both appeared in 2003.

Graham Hancock

27 books• 1 series

Graham Hancock writes about ancient civilisations, lost continents and the record of early exploration. The catalogue starts in travel and reportage, with Africa Guide 1980 (1979), Journey Through Pakistan (1982), Ethiopia (1985), AIDS (1986) and Lords of Poverty (1989). 27 titles are catalogued in all, the last being Visionary: The Mysterious Origins of Human Consciousness in 2022.

Jilly Cooper

50 books• 5 series

Dame Jilly Cooper (1937-2025) was an English journalist who became a novelist. Cooper started in journalism and published non-fiction on class, animals and marriage before turning to fiction with the 1975 romance Emily. The Rutshire Chronicles are her longest and best known sequence. Humour, English social class, horsemanship and manners run through the work. Fifty catalogued books open with the collection Jolly Super (1970) and close with Tackle! (2023).

Noam Chomsky

134 books• 4 series

Noam Chomsky (Avram Noam Chomsky, born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, political activist and social critic, sometimes called the father of modern linguistics. Chomsky helped found cognitive science, is a major figure in analytic philosophy, and holds posts as laureate professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona and institute professor emeritus at MIT. The catalogue lists 134 books, starting with Syntactic Structures (1957) and reaching The Myth of American Idealism (2024). Subjects range from generative grammar to world politics and terrorism.

John Glatt is a British American writer of biographies and true crime, born in London, who moved to New York in 1981. The catalogue lists 31 books from Rage & Roll (1993) to Tangled Vines (2023). Biographies include River Phoenix: The Biography (1995), The Chieftains: The Authorized Biography (1997) and The Royal House of Monaco (1998). Other titles include For I Have Sinned (1998), Evil Twins (1999), Cradle of Death (2000) and Cries in the Desert (2002). Subjects include murder case studies, film actors, rock music, princes and family.