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The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,030,067 ratings — published 2017
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 3.83 — 510,626 ratings — published 2016
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 4.40 — 372,640 ratings — published 2015
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 4.52 — 119,273 ratings — published 2010
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 4.62 — 268,169 ratings — published 2014
Unwind (Unwind, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 4.17 — 252,923 ratings — published 2007
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 4.24 — 43,735 ratings — published 2020
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 4.49 — 223,087 ratings — published 2014
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,426 ratings — published 2019
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 4.16 — 173,571 ratings — published 2018
Turtles All the Way Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 3.87 — 653,055 ratings — published 2017
All American Boys (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 50,980 ratings — published 2015
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 4.47 — 116,607 ratings — published 2016
The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,790 ratings — published 2009
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,347 ratings — published 2001
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 4.40 — 17,989 ratings — published 2023
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,335,333 ratings — published 2017
Bewilderment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 3.91 — 73,032 ratings — published 2021
The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 4.56 — 6,363 ratings — published 2020
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 4.52 — 165,540 ratings — published 2020
Christianity and Liberalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 4.35 — 6,705 ratings — published 1922
Fear: Trump in the White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 3.87 — 65,731 ratings — published 2018
The Poet X (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 4.36 — 144,293 ratings — published 2018
Long Way Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 4.24 — 141,136 ratings — published 2017
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,465,241 ratings — published 2017
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 4.49 — 828,831 ratings — published 2016
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,032,066 ratings — published 2007
Big Little Lies (Big Little Lies, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,134,927 ratings — published 2014
Is God Anti-gay?: And Other Questions About Homosexuality, the Bible, and Same-Sex Attraction (Questions Christians Ask)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 4.31 — 4,591 ratings — published 2013
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,827,622 ratings — published 2012
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 3.75 — 206,827 ratings — published 2001
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,285,192 ratings — published 2004
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 4.12 — 126,360 ratings — published 2025
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 4.27 — 68,670 ratings — published 2024
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 4.41 — 14,689 ratings — published 2023
Enough (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 4.29 — 18,514 ratings — published 2023
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,110,167 ratings — published 2023
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,849,316 ratings — published 2022
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 4.25 — 18,183 ratings — published 2018
Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 4.07 — 7,687 ratings — published 2014
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,623 ratings — published 2006
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 4.50 — 182,544 ratings — published 2013
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 4.11 — 203,752 ratings — published 2018
Bloodlines: Race, Cross, and the Christian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,063 ratings — published 2011
American Dirt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 4.36 — 709,573 ratings — published 2020
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 3.77 — 584,342 ratings — published 2019
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 3.90 — 273,575 ratings — published 2018
The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 4.49 — 12,890 ratings — published 2019
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 4.40 — 103,848 ratings — published 2019
The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-issues)
avg rating 4.15 — 12,956 ratings — published 2017
“Justice is not a distant idea or an abstract concept; it is something we must actively pursue, embody, and fight for every day”
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