35 books
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Important Books
Showing 1-50 of 19,420
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as important)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,019,361 ratings — published 2017
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as important)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,534,470 ratings — published 1948
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as important)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,611,758 ratings — published 1945
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as important)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,940,813 ratings — published 1960
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as important)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,456,601 ratings — published 1985
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as important)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,223,751 ratings — published 1947
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as important)
avg rating 4.40 — 369,385 ratings — published 2015
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as important)
avg rating 4.37 — 891,997 ratings — published 1946
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as important)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,872,654 ratings — published 1953
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as important)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,373,733 ratings — published 1956
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as important)
avg rating 4.52 — 118,158 ratings — published 2010
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 37 times as important)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,902,827 ratings — published 2005
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as important)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,094,813 ratings — published 1932
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 36 times as important)
avg rating 4.39 — 333,315 ratings — published 2012
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as important)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,277,195 ratings — published 2011
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as important)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,242,607 ratings — published 1963
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as important)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,036 ratings — published 2018
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 30 times as important)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,330,551 ratings — published 2018
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as important)
avg rating 3.98 — 495,597 ratings — published 1987
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as important)
avg rating 4.28 — 757,443 ratings — published 1982
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as important)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,098,023 ratings — published 1866
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as important)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,920,090 ratings — published 1951
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as important)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,610,513 ratings — published 1988
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as important)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,969,236 ratings — published 1925
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as important)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,508,425 ratings — published 1943
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as important)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,159,531 ratings — published 1936
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as important)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,016,763 ratings — published 1999
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as important)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,225,625 ratings — published 1954
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as important)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,858 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 — 172,747 ratings — published 2018
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as important)
avg rating 4.35 — 64,043 ratings — published 2020
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as important)
avg rating 4.37 — 101,262 ratings — published 2017
Know My Name (ebook)
by (shelved 26 times as important)
avg rating 4.68 — 261,853 ratings — published 2019
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as important)
avg rating 4.44 — 36,294 ratings — published 2015
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as important)
avg rating 4.62 — 264,445 ratings — published 2014
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as important)
avg rating 4.28 — 356,543 ratings — published 180
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as important)
avg rating 4.17 — 594,957 ratings — published 2011
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as important)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,038,611 ratings — published 2009
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as important)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,519,824 ratings — published 2003
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as important)
avg rating 4.52 — 163,281 ratings — published 2020
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as important)
avg rating 4.34 — 171,788 ratings — published 2019
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as important)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,886,362 ratings — published 2018
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 24 times as important)
avg rating 4.55 — 123,710 ratings — published 1963
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as important)
avg rating 4.16 — 827,149 ratings — published 1989
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as important)
avg rating 4.05 — 634,317 ratings — published 1999
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as important)
avg rating 4.59 — 35,020 ratings — published 1981
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as important)
avg rating 4.13 — 810,162 ratings — published 2010
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as important)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,907,382 ratings — published 1890
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as important)
avg rating 3.87 — 953,602 ratings — published 1955
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 — 627,196 ratings — published 2012
“I stand on the battlefield to protect what's important to me. And if anyone's to stand in my way, I don't care if it's one of my kind, my brother or anyone else... I'll crush them all!”
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