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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as important)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,817,803 ratings — published 1949
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as important)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,048,643 ratings — published 2017
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as important)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,854,909 ratings — published 1945
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as important)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,584,547 ratings — published 1985
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as important)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,161,275 ratings — published 1960
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as important)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,354,693 ratings — published 1947
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as important)
avg rating 4.40 — 377,897 ratings — published 2015
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as important)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,017,802 ratings — published 1963
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as important)
avg rating 4.36 — 949,889 ratings — published 1946
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as important)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,410,792 ratings — published 2012
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 38 times as important)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,996,055 ratings — published 2005
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as important)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,167,487 ratings — published 1932
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as important)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,969 ratings — published 2010
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 36 times as important)
avg rating 4.39 — 343,777 ratings — published 2012
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as important)
avg rating 4.28 — 776,788 ratings — published 1982
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as important)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,332,823 ratings — published 1963
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as important)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,173,469 ratings — published 1866
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as important)
avg rating 3.99 — 519,444 ratings — published 1987
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as important)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,032,762 ratings — published 1951
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as important)
avg rating 4.48 — 109,026 ratings — published 2018
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as important)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,340,527 ratings — published 2011
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as important)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,784,223 ratings — published 1988
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as important)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,179,605 ratings — published 1925
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 30 times as important)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,442,808 ratings — published 2018
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as important)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,629,897 ratings — published 1943
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as important)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,202,993 ratings — published 1936
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as important)
avg rating 4.36 — 121,288 ratings — published 2019
Know My Name (ebook)
by (shelved 27 times as important)
avg rating 4.67 — 278,859 ratings — published 2019
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 27 times as important)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,818 ratings — published 2018
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as important)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,085,416 ratings — published 1999
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as important)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,581,819 ratings — published 1915
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as important)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,335,864 ratings — published 1954
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as important)
avg rating 4.16 — 621,839 ratings — published 2011
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as important)
avg rating 4.35 — 66,605 ratings — published 2020
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as important)
avg rating 4.27 — 387,723 ratings — published 180
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as important)
avg rating 4.62 — 274,146 ratings — published 2014
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as important)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,111,256 ratings — published 2009
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as important)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,028,973 ratings — published 1890
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as important)
avg rating 4.52 — 169,869 ratings — published 2020
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as important)
avg rating 4.37 — 102,486 ratings — published 2017
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as important)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,995,625 ratings — published 2018
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as important)
avg rating 4.16 — 848,570 ratings — published 1989
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as important)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,631,039 ratings — published 2003
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as important)
avg rating 4.33 — 185,062 ratings — published 2019
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as important)
avg rating 4.30 — 601,283 ratings — published 1969
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as important)
avg rating 4.16 — 642,210 ratings — published 2012
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as important)
avg rating 4.06 — 647,035 ratings — published 1999
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as important)
avg rating 3.70 — 212,095 ratings — published 1848
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as important)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,918,792 ratings — published 1993
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as important)
avg rating 3.87 — 985,484 ratings — published 1955
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