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What to read after Thrift Score by Al Hoff: 24 titles sharing themes of Popular Culture and Social Science, chosen for mood and literary overlap.

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Top related books to Thrift Score

Strong read-alikes chosen for how closely they echo the themes and feel of Thrift Score.

10% Happier How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-help that Actually Works – a True Story — Dan Harris

10% Happier How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-help that Actually Works – a True Story

Themes: Popular Culture • Social Science

Gudetama Cross-Stitch 30 Easy-To-Follow Patterns from Your Favorite Lazy Egg — Sosae Caetano

Gudetama Cross-Stitch 30 Easy-To-Follow Patterns from Your Favorite Lazy Egg

Themes: Popular Culture • Social Science

Eating the Dinosaur — Chuck Klosterman

Eating the Dinosaur

Chuck Klosterman

Themes: Popular Culture • Social Science

Bad Feminist [Tenth Anniversary Limited Collector’s Edition] Essays — Roxane Gay

Bad Feminist [Tenth Anniversary Limited Collector’s Edition] Essays

Themes: Popular Culture • Social Science

Vivian Fine A Bio-Bibliography — Judith Cody

Vivian Fine A Bio-Bibliography

Themes: Popular Culture • Social Science

The Simple Stage Its Origins in the Modern American Theater — Arthur Feinsod

The Simple Stage Its Origins in the Modern American Theater

Themes: Popular Culture • Social Science

The Chip How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution — T.R. Reid

The Chip How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution

Themes: Popular Culture • Social Science

The Penguin Gladwell Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, David and Goliath — Malcolm Gladwell

The Penguin Gladwell Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, David and Goliath

Malcolm Gladwell

Themes: Popular Culture • Social Science

The Ra Material Book Four — Rueckert &. McCarty

The Ra Material Book Four

Rueckert &. McCarty

Themes: Popular Culture • Social Science

Transgression — Chris Jenks

Themes: Popular Culture • Social Science

Edward Said’s Translocations Essays in Secular Criticism — Tobias Doring

Edward Said’s Translocations Essays in Secular Criticism

Themes: Popular Culture • Social Science

Heaven Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife — Lisa Miller

Heaven Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife

Themes: Popular Culture • Social Science

Jane & Michael Stern’s Encyclopedia of Pop Culture An A to Z Guide of Who’s who and What’s What, from Aerobics and Bubble Gum to Valley of the Dolls and Moon Unit Zappa — Jane Stern

Jane & Michael Stern’s Encyclopedia of Pop Culture An A to Z Guide of Who’s who and What’s What, from Aerobics and Bubble Gum to Valley of the Dolls and Moon Unit Zappa

Themes: Popular Culture • Social Science

How to Break Up with Your Phone The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life — Catherine Price

How to Break Up with Your Phone The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life

Catherine Price

Themes: Popular Culture • Social Science

Honey Island Swamp Monster Documentations — Dana Holyfield

Honey Island Swamp Monster Documentations

Themes: Popular Culture • Social Science

Manga Origami Easy Techniques for Creating 20 Super-Cute Characters — Márcio Hideshi Noguchi

Manga Origami Easy Techniques for Creating 20 Super-Cute Characters

Márcio Hideshi Noguchi

Themes: Popular Culture • Social Science

Global Entertainment Media Between Cultural Imperialism and Cultural Globalization — Tanner Mirrlees

Global Entertainment Media Between Cultural Imperialism and Cultural Globalization

Tanner Mirrlees

Themes: Popular Culture • Social Science

Love is the Drug — John Aizlewood

Love is the Drug

Themes: Popular Culture • Social Science

Con/artist The Life and Crimes of the World’s Greatest Art Forger — Tony Tetro

Con/artist The Life and Crimes of the World’s Greatest Art Forger

Themes: Popular Culture • Social Science

Good Booty Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music — Ann Powers

Good Booty Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music

Themes: Popular Culture • Social Science

A Pelican Introduction: How To See the World — Nicholas Mirzoeff

A Pelican Introduction: How To See the World

Nicholas Mirzoeff

Themes: Popular Culture • Social Science

How K-Dramas Can Transform Your Life Powerful Lessons on Belongingness, Healing, and Mental Health — Jeanie Y. Chang

How K-Dramas Can Transform Your Life Powerful Lessons on Belongingness, Healing, and Mental Health

Jeanie Y. Chang

Themes: Popular Culture • Social Science

Football and Discrimination Antisemitism and Beyond — Pavel Brunssen

Football and Discrimination Antisemitism and Beyond

Themes: Popular Culture • Social Science

Together We Rise Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World — The Women’s March Organizers

Together We Rise Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World — The Women’s March Organizers

The Women's March Organizers

Themes: Popular Culture • Social Science

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Thrift Score by Al Hoff. Connected by Popular Culture, Social Science. Authors featured include Dan Harris, Sosae Caetano, Chuck Klosterman, Roxane Gay, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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