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The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as important)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,036,647 ratings — published 2017
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as important)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,691,327 ratings — published 1949
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as important)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,753,274 ratings — published 1945
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as important)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,068,468 ratings — published 1960
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as important)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,298,720 ratings — published 1947
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as important)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,529,608 ratings — published 1985
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as important)
avg rating 4.40 — 374,379 ratings — published 2015
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as important)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,953,444 ratings — published 1963
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as important)
avg rating 4.37 — 924,404 ratings — published 1946
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as important)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,395,222 ratings — published 1956
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 37 times as important)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,956,447 ratings — published 2005
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as important)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,135,105 ratings — published 1932
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 36 times as important)
avg rating 4.39 — 339,194 ratings — published 2012
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as important)
avg rating 4.52 — 119,896 ratings — published 2010
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as important)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,291,401 ratings — published 1963
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as important)
avg rating 4.28 — 768,502 ratings — published 1982
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as important)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,983,813 ratings — published 1951
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as important)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,626 ratings — published 2018
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as important)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,312,637 ratings — published 2011
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as important)
avg rating 3.99 — 508,758 ratings — published 1987
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as important)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,137,974 ratings — published 1866
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 30 times as important)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,394,338 ratings — published 2018
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as important)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,573,723 ratings — published 1943
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as important)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,708,996 ratings — published 1988
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as important)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,090,474 ratings — published 1925
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as important)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,183,504 ratings — published 1936
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as important)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,744 ratings — published 2019
Know My Name (ebook)
by (shelved 27 times as important)
avg rating 4.67 — 271,091 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 — 174,021 ratings — published 2018
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as important)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,055,095 ratings — published 1999
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as important)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,289,133 ratings — published 1954
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as important)
avg rating 4.35 — 65,675 ratings — published 2020
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as important)
avg rating 4.27 — 374,194 ratings — published 180
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as important)
avg rating 4.17 — 609,993 ratings — published 2011
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as important)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,078,469 ratings — published 2009
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as important)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,582,349 ratings — published 2003
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as important)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,520,488 ratings — published 1915
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as important)
avg rating 4.37 — 101,959 ratings — published 2017
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as important)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,947,317 ratings — published 2018
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as important)
avg rating 4.62 — 270,088 ratings — published 2014
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as important)
avg rating 4.16 — 838,696 ratings — published 1989
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as important)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,972,083 ratings — published 1890
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as important)
avg rating 4.33 — 179,250 ratings — published 2019
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as important)
avg rating 4.05 — 641,541 ratings — published 1999
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as important)
avg rating 4.52 — 166,756 ratings — published 2020
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as important)
avg rating 4.44 — 37,296 ratings — published 2015
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as important)
avg rating 3.69 — 207,004 ratings — published 1848
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as important)
avg rating 4.30 — 594,629 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 22 times as important)
avg rating 4.16 — 635,808 ratings — published 2012
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as important)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,881,921 ratings — published 1993
“Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.”
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