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The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsDivergent by Veronica RothMockingjay by Suzanne CollinsInsurgent by Veronica Roth
YA Dystopia Novels
1,966 books — 11,341 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Ultimate Human Secrets - The Hidden Power in our Mysterio... by Ramzi NajjarThe You Beyond You by Ramzi NajjarTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeSiddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Best Horizon Expanding Books
934 books — 569 voters

The Fault in Our Stars by John GreenThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyLooking for Alaska by John GreenSpeak by Laurie Halse AndersonThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak
YA Realistic Fiction
598 books — 535 voters
Soulless by Gail CarrigerJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeEtiquette & Espionage by Gail CarrigerHis Majesty's Dragon by Naomi NovikSorcery & Cecelia by Patricia C. Wrede
Fantasy of Manners
295 books — 498 voters

Outliers by Malcolm GladwellFreakonomics by Steven D. LevittThe Tipping Point by Malcolm GladwellNickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichBlink by Malcolm Gladwell
Sociology Books
558 books — 417 voters
The Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxDas Kapital by Karl MarxThe State and Revolution by Vladimir LeninReform or Revolution by Rosa LuxemburgSocialism by Friedrich Engels
Socialist Classics
421 books — 327 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsDivergent by Veronica Roth1984 by George OrwellCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsMockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Best Dystopian/Different Society Books!
313 books — 290 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsBattle Royale by Koushun TakamiMockingjay by Suzanne CollinsDivergent by Veronica Roth
Games of Death
167 books — 285 voters

The Merchant of Venice by William ShakespeareOthello by William ShakespeareDeath in Venice and Other Tales by Thomas MannThe Thief Lord by Cornelia FunkeIn the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant
Books Set in Venice
336 books — 280 voters
Animal Farm by George Orwell1984 by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Help by Kathryn StockettFlowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
FICTION Books That Opened Your Eyes to a Social or Political Issue
416 books — 255 voters

Escape to the Maroons by Mike WeedallLife in a Medieval City by Frances GiesAt Home by Bill BrysonA Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanA History of Private Life by Philippe Ariès
Social History Books - All About People & Society
773 books — 208 voters
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeAgainst Nature by Joris-Karl HuysmansLes Fleurs du Mal by Charles BaudelaireThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Decadence & the Fin-de-Siècle
240 books — 201 voters

The Final Empire by Brandon SandersonThe Way of Kings by Brandon SandersonThe Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. TolkienThe Name of the Wind by Patrick RothfussA Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Magical Lands
329 books — 191 voters
The Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThe Birth of Venus by Sarah DunantBrunelleschi's Dome by Ross KingThe House of Medici by Christopher HibbertThe Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
The Italian Renaissance
283 books — 174 voters

Kindred by Octavia E. ButlerParable of the Sower by Octavia E. ButlerBinti by Nnedi OkoraforDawn by Octavia E. ButlerLilith's Brood by Octavia E. Butler
Black Speculative Fiction
352 books — 155 voters
The Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia FraserThe Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de PizanThe Life of Elizabeth I by Alison WeirThe Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison WeirThe Lais of Marie de France by Marie de France
From Adam's Rib? -- Women in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
280 books — 135 voters

Journey to the West by Biao WangThe Blindspots Between Us by Gleb TsipurskyAdapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavir... by Gleb TsipurskyPro Truth by Gleb TsipurskyMythologies by Roland Barthes
For Culture Watchers
204 books — 101 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakJohn Henry the Friendly Giant by Cynthia Romaker FullmerOliver Twist by Charles DickensThe Help by Kathryn Stockett1984 by George Orwell
Literature Concerning Social Injustice and Human Suffering (Fiction Only)
198 books — 86 voters

Mein Kampf by Adolf HitlerThe Holy Bible by AnonymousTwilight by Stephenie MeyerFifty Shades of Grey by E.L. JamesFifty Shades Darker by E.L. James
Books I Would Ban If I Believed In Banning Books
168 books — 72 voters
The Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonThe Great Influenza by John M. BarryAnd the Band Played On by Randy ShiltsThe Coming Plague by Laurie GarrettGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
History of disease
165 books — 69 voters

The End of Miracles by Monica StarkmanWaiting for Daisy by Peggy OrensteinMoondance by Diane ChandlerNot Pregnant by Karina SavarynaSilent Sorority by Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos
Infertility
69 books — 66 voters
V for Vendetta by Alan MooreParable of the Sower by Octavia E. ButlerThe Wrath of Leviathan by T.C. WeberThe Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le GuinPrejudice, Racism, and Tribalism by Anthony M. D'Agostino MD
Fight the Power! Activism in fiction
73 books — 57 voters

Ready Player One by Ernest ClineMoon 514 by Drew BrineySinnabar by Richard WolkomirThe 40-Minute War by Janet E. MorrisAfter the Fall - Tales of the Apocalypse by Kelly Gardner
YA Standalones in Science Fiction, Dystopian or Post-Apocalyptic
70 books — 51 voters
Adapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavir... by Gleb TsipurskyPro Truth by Gleb TsipurskyThe Blindspots Between Us by Gleb TsipurskyDark Matters by Michael DowNever Go With Your Gut by Gleb Tsipursky
Visions of the Future of Society
52 books — 45 voters

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanFight Club by Chuck PalahniukDead Poets Society by N.H. KleinbaumThe Double Comfort Safari Club by Alexander McCall Smith
Clubs & Societies
290 books — 40 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeEmma by Jane AustenNorthanger Abbey by Jane AustenSense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Comedy of Manners
85 books — 33 voters

Uprooted by Peter J. BoniAn American Sickness by Elisabeth RosenthalBeing Mortal by Atul GawandeBetween Wounded and Well by Debra PalmerHallucinations by Oliver Sacks
A must read list for everyone, mostly by doctors
14 books — 33 voters
Care Work by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samara...Disability Visibility by Alice WongPrejudice, Racism, and Tribalism by Anthony M. D'Agostino MDEarth, Animal, and Disability Liberation by Anthony J. Nocella IIMoojag and the Auticode Secret by N.E. McMorran
Disability Justice Writing
51 books — 22 voters

Who Hears Here? by Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr.Mythologies by Roland BarthesThe Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich EngelsThe Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter BenjaminCulture and Society, 1780-1950 by Raymond Williams
Critique of cultural studies from within.
110 books — 19 voters
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondOn China by Henry KissingerLeftover Women by Leta Hong FincherMeltdown in Tibet by Michael BuckleyAdventure, romance and war in the Far East by Iris Hay-Edie
Informative Books on China
42 books — 12 voters

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