Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt
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This books reads similarly to an economics podcast, with different chapters representing various interesting short investigations into economic or social phenomena. This book is highly accessible to everyone including those who are not scientifically or economically inclined and may in fact be an intro to this kind of thinking. I believe I heard that Levitt would have been a data scientist and not an economist if he were to have started his career when data scientists were more common and this shows throughout the book as he relied much more on data than models (which I think is the right way to do things).
Note: Listened to as an audiobook while doing other things and it’s certainly dense enough to be interesting while doing other things but not so dense you get lost. (overall the book is very light)