What to Read After Asylums
Readers who loved Asylums by Erving Goffman keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Asylums is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Asylums
The social construction of reality
The sociological imagination
Capitalism and modern social theory
Suicide
Outsiders
Sociology of religion
The civilizing process
An invitation to reflexive sociology
Listening to Prozac
Learning to Labour
The Myth of Mental Illness
The lonely crowd
Anatomy of an epidemic
Crazy like us
The Lucifer Effect
Stigma
The phenomenology of the social world.
The declining significance of race
Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article
The constitution of society
The protest psychosis
Folk Devils and Moral Panics
A Mind That Found Itself
The elementary forms of the religious life