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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
2,004 books — 11,520 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe CodeBreaker Mindset by Chitra NawbattThe Ultimate Human Secrets - The Hidden Power in our Mysterio... by Ramzi NajjarThe Long Game by Dorie ClarkThe You Beyond You by Ramzi Najjar
Best Horizon Expanding Books
961 books — 634 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
617 books — 590 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
298 books — 501 voters

Outliers by Malcolm GladwellFreakonomics by Steven D. LevittThe Tipping Point by Malcolm GladwellNickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichBlink by Malcolm Gladwell
Sociology Books
562 books — 420 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
423 books — 336 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!
316 books — 294 voters
2062 by Emerson LittlefieldAnimal Farm by George Orwell1984 by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Help by Kathryn Stockett
FICTION Books That Opened Your Eyes to a Social or Political Issue
422 books — 292 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
337 books — 280 voters

Escape to the Maroons by Mike WeedallLife in a Medieval City by Frances GiesAt Home by Bill BrysonLifelines The Bowen Love Letters by Susan Lee WardA Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman
Social History Books - All About People & Society
780 books — 217 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 — 202 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
292 books — 181 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
281 books — 137 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 ZusakOliver Twist by Charles DickensThe Help by Kathryn StockettWhen Secrets Bloom by Patricia Furstenberg1984 by George Orwell
Literature Concerning Social Injustice and Human Suffering (Fiction Only)
200 books — 85 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
185 books — 74 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
166 books — 70 voters

Migrant Crisis by John SteelV for Vendetta by Alan MooreParable of the Sower by Octavia E. ButlerThe Wrath of Leviathan by T.C. WeberThe Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Fight the Power! Activism in fiction
75 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

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
54 books — 47 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
Uprooted by Peter J. BoniAn American Sickness by Elisabeth RosenthalBeing Mortal by Atul GawandeBetween Wounded and Well by Debra PalmerSave Your Hands! by Lauriann Greene
A must read list for everyone, mostly by doctors
18 books — 34 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
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
53 books — 24 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.
109 books — 18 voters
Cracking The Rich Code Volume 20 by Diane Merrill WiggintonGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondOn China by Henry KissingerLeftover Women by Leta Hong FincherMeltdown in Tibet by Michael Buckley
Informative Books on China
44 books — 16 voters

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