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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
2,018 books — 11,554 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
967 books — 648 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
624 books — 594 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 — 554 voters

Outliers by Malcolm GladwellFreakonomics by Steven D. LevittThe Tipping Point by Malcolm GladwellNickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichBlink by Malcolm Gladwell
Sociology Books
567 books — 423 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
424 books — 337 voters

2062 by Emerson LittlefieldAnimal Farm by George Orwell1984 by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Smithtown Project by Scott Wittenburg
FICTION Books That Opened Your Eyes to a Social or Political Issue
431 books — 317 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!
324 books — 301 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 — 284 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
338 books — 282 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 — 219 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
242 books — 205 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
330 books — 193 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
297 books — 184 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
353 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
205 books — 102 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)
206 books — 88 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 — 76 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
167 books — 71 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
55 books — 48 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
Uprooted by Peter J. BoniBeyond Diagnosis by R.E. Geffner MDAn American Sickness by Elisabeth RosenthalBeing Mortal by Atul GawandeBetween Wounded and Well by Debra Palmer
A must read list for everyone, mostly by doctors
20 books — 36 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
89 books — 34 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 BenjaminThe Left Hemisphere by Razmig Keucheyan
Critique of cultural studies from within.
112 books — 22 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
33 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
45 books — 17 voters

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