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The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as important)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,025,195 ratings — published 2017
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as important)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,588,277 ratings — published 1948
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as important)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,656,864 ratings — published 1945
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as important)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,982,664 ratings — published 1960
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as important)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,480,915 ratings — published 1985
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as important)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,248,444 ratings — published 1947
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as important)
avg rating 4.40 — 371,106 ratings — published 2015
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as important)
avg rating 4.37 — 903,130 ratings — published 1946
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as important)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,900,670 ratings — published 1953
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as important)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,381,369 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 — 118,778 ratings — published 2010
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 37 times as important)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,921,164 ratings — published 2005
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 36 times as important)
avg rating 4.39 — 335,507 ratings — published 2012
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as important)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,108,745 ratings — published 1932
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as important)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,259,416 ratings — published 1963
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as important)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,289,217 ratings — published 2011
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as important)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,243 ratings — published 2018
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as important)
avg rating 4.28 — 761,288 ratings — published 1982
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as important)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,111,820 ratings — published 1866
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as important)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,942,786 ratings — published 1951
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 — 1,353,171 ratings — published 2018
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as important)
avg rating 3.98 — 499,838 ratings — published 1987
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as important)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,530,147 ratings — published 1943
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as important)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,645,378 ratings — published 1988
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as important)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,009,116 ratings — published 1925
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as important)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,167,651 ratings — published 1936
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as important)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,029,276 ratings — published 1999
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as important)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,245,788 ratings — published 1954
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as important)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,162 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 — 173,181 ratings — published 2018
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as important)
avg rating 4.35 — 64,649 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 — 101,509 ratings — published 2017
Know My Name (ebook)
by (shelved 26 times as important)
avg rating 4.68 — 265,066 ratings — published 2019
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as important)
avg rating 4.44 — 36,684 ratings — published 2015
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as important)
avg rating 4.28 — 362,590 ratings — published 180
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as important)
avg rating 4.62 — 266,464 ratings — published 2014
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as important)
avg rating 4.17 — 600,023 ratings — published 2011
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as important)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,051,027 ratings — published 2009
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as important)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,540,407 ratings — published 2003
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 24 times as important)
avg rating 4.55 — 125,314 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 — 831,130 ratings — published 1989
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as important)
avg rating 4.52 — 164,542 ratings — published 2020
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as important)
avg rating 4.33 — 174,600 ratings — published 2019
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as important)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,906,754 ratings — published 2018
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as important)
avg rating 4.59 — 35,446 ratings — published 1981
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as important)
avg rating 4.13 — 814,981 ratings — published 2010
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 — 630,197 ratings — published 2012
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as important)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,929,328 ratings — published 1890
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as important)
avg rating 4.05 — 636,578 ratings — published 1999
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as important)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,475,740 ratings — published 1915
“Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another?
We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“While getting lost in all those little things that seem so important, don't forget the little things that matter...”
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