| The postmodern turn S Best The Emerald Guide to Zygmunt Bauman, 2020 | 1403* | 2020 |
| Leisure studies: Themes and perspectives S Best Sage, 2009 | 166 | 2009 |
| A beginner's guide to social theory S Best Sage, 2003 | 130 | 2003 |
| Understanding and doing successful research: Data collection and analysis for the social sciences S Best Routledge, 2014 | 116 | 2014 |
| Understanding social divisions S Best Sage, 2005 | 85 | 2005 |
| Introduction to politics and society S Best Sage, 2002 | 60 | 2002 |
| The social construction of pain: An evaluation S Best Disability & Society 22 (2), 161-171, 2007 | 53 | 2007 |
| Liquid fandom: Neo-tribes and fandom in the context of liquid modernity S Best Soccer & Society 14 (1), 80-92, 2013 | 51 | 2013 |
| Zygmunt Bauman: Why good people do bad things S Best Routledge, 2016 | 45 | 2016 |
| Why Good People do Bad Things S Best Zygmunt Bauman, 129-138, 2016 | 45* | 2016 |
| Zygmunt Bauman: personal reflections within the mainstream of modernity S Best British Journal of Sociology, 311-320, 1998 | 35 | 1998 |
| The Leicester school of football hooliganism: An evaluation S Best Soccer & Society 11 (5), 573-587, 2010 | 29 | 2010 |
| Liquid terrorism: Altruistic fundamentalism in the context of liquid modernity S Best Sociology 44 (4), 678-694, 2010 | 27 | 2010 |
| Zygmunt Bauman on education in liquid modernity S Best Routledge, 2019 | 25 | 2019 |
| Education in the interregnum: an evaluation of Zygmunt Bauman’s liquid-turn writing on education S Best British Journal of Sociology of Education 38 (2), 203-220, 2017 | 20 | 2017 |
| Agency and Structure in Zygmunt Bauman's Modernity and the Holocaust S Best Irish Journal of Sociology 22 (1), 67-87, 2014 | 19 | 2014 |
| Liquid Love: Zygmunt Bauman’s thesis on sex revisited S Best Sexualities 22 (7-8), 1094-1109, 2019 | 18 | 2019 |
| Zygmunt Bauman: On what it means to be included S Best Power and Education 8 (2), 124-139, 2016 | 17 | 2016 |
| The stranger S Best Routledge, 2019 | 15 | 2019 |
| Aspiration, abjection and precariousness: The neo-liberal educator’s desire for compliance S Best Power and Education 9 (1), 37-50, 2017 | 15 | 2017 |
