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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
2,036 books — 11,665 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe CodeBreaker Mindset by Chitra NawbattThe Long Game by Dorie ClarkThe Startup of You by Reid HoffmanWild Courage by Jenny Wood
Best Horizon Expanding Books
995 books — 706 voters

The Fault in Our Stars by John GreenThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyLooking for Alaska by John GreenA Stone's Throw by Wayne EdwardsSpeak by Laurie Halse Anderson
YA Realistic Fiction
631 books — 664 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
297 books — 512 voters

Outliers by Malcolm GladwellFreakonomics by Steven D. LevittThe Tipping Point by Malcolm GladwellNickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichBlink by Malcolm Gladwell
Sociology Books
588 books — 457 voters
-30- by Rex Canyon2062 by Emerson LittlefieldEarly Mornings With Dick by Jack RyanAnimal Farm by George Orwell1984 by George Orwell
FICTION Books That Opened Your Eyes to a Social or Political Issue
434 books — 399 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
426 books — 340 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!
329 books — 314 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 — 287 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
339 books — 283 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
781 books — 222 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
241 books — 206 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
333 books — 197 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
291 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
351 books — 156 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
282 books — 138 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
206 books — 104 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Help by Kathryn StockettOliver Twist by Charles DickensWhen Secrets Bloom by Patricia Furstenberg1984 by George Orwell
Literature Concerning Social Injustice and Human Suffering (Fiction Only)
200 books — 86 voters

Mein Kampf by Adolf HitlerThe Holy Bible by AnonymousTwilight by Stephenie MeyerFifty Shades of Grey by E.L. JamesMen Are Better Than Women by Dick Masterson
Books I Would Ban If I Believed In Banning Books
185 books — 80 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
170 books — 73 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
77 books — 70 voters
The End of Miracles by Monica StarkmanWaiting for Daisy by Peggy OrensteinMoondance by Diane ChandlerNot Pregnant by Karina SavarynaThe Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
Infertility
70 books — 67 voters

Ready Player One by Ernest ClineThe Silence Dividend by Izzy BondAll That We Reflect by Izzy BondMoon 514 by Drew BrineySinnabar by Richard Wolkomir
YA Standalones in Science Fiction, Dystopian or Post-Apocalyptic
73 books — 65 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
57 books — 50 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
291 books — 41 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

The HIPUS® Revolution by Mark SorensenUprooted by Peter J. BoniBeyond Diagnosis by R.E. Geffner MDAn American Sickness by Elisabeth RosenthalBeing Mortal by Atul Gawande
A must read list for everyone, mostly by doctors
21 books — 33 voters
Who Hears Here? by Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr.Mythologies by Roland BarthesThe Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter BenjaminThe Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich EngelsThe Left Hemisphere by Razmig Keucheyan
Critique of cultural studies from within.
115 books — 26 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
49 books — 20 voters
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp SendkerAlexander's Infinity by Lidija StankovikjThe Piano Tuner by Daniel MasonSaving Fish from Drowning by Amy TanThe Jewel Trader of Pegu by Jeffrey Hantover
Fictitious Burma
22 books — 16 voters

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