Pathogenesis
Jonathan Kennedy
Published 2023
384 pages
The most popular anthropology books of 2023
Anthropology is the study of human beings in all their variety. Customs, kinship, belief, language and our evolutionary origins are explored through fieldwork among peoples around the world. These books show how many ways there are to be human, and make your own culture look a little stranger. This list shows the ones first published in 2023.
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Fire Weather
John Vaillant
Published 2023
432 pages
"You Just Need to Lose Weight" And 19 Other Myths About Fat People
Aubrey Gordon
Published 2023
224 pages
Worthy
Jada Pinkett Smith
Published 2023
405 pages
The Best Strangers in the World Stories from a Life Spent Listening
Ari Shapiro
2023 · 2024 edition
256 pages
Still Life with Bones Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains
Alexa Hagerty
Published 2023
320 pages
Waiting to Be Arrested at Night
Tahir Hamut Izgil
Published 2023
272 pages
Saving Time Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture
Jenny Odell
2023 · 2024 edition
416 pages
The Teachers A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
Alexandra Robbins
Published 2023
384 pages
Our Moon
Rebecca Boyle
2023 · 2024 edition
336 pages
Generations The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America's Future
Jean M. Twenge
Published 2023
554 pages
Invitation to a Banquet A History of Chinese Food
Fuchsia Dunlop
2023 · 2025 edition
480 pages
Eight Bears Mythic Past and Imperiled Future
Gloria Dickie
Published 2023
250 pages
Pirate Enlightenment, Or the Real Libertalia
David Graeber
Published 2023
208 pages
STFU The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in an Endlessly Noisy World
Dan Lyons
Published 2023
272 pages
Wannabe Reckonings with the Pop Culture that Shapes Me
Aisha Harris
Published 2023
280 pages
The Patriarchs The Origins of Inequality
Angela Saini
Published 2023
256 pages
The Canceling of the American Mind Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution
Greg Lukianoff, Rikki Schlott
Published 2023
443 pages
Misbelief What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things
Dan Ariely
2023 · 2024 edition
320 pages
End Times Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration
Peter Turchin
Published 2023
368 pages
The Ugly History of Beautiful Things Essays on Desire and Consumption
Katy Kelleher
2023 · 2024 edition
272 pages
Smarter Not Harder The Biohacker's Guide to Getting the Body and Mind You Want
Dave Asprey
Published 2023
320 pages
Who Gets Believed? When the Truth Isn't Enough
Dina Nayeri
2023 · 2024 edition
304 pages
Sounds Fake But Okay An Asexual and Aromantic Perspective on Love, Relationships, Sex, and Pretty Much Anything Else
Sarah Costello, Kayla Kaszyca
Published 2023
160 pages