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Oppression Books
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The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,470,060 ratings — published 1985
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.30 — 39,747 ratings — published 1968
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,564,147 ratings — published 1948
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.28 — 340,830 ratings — published 2015
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,215,129 ratings — published 2009
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,022,534 ratings — published 2017
The Orphan Master's Son (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.07 — 104,825 ratings — published 2012
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,377,913 ratings — published 1956
Infidel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.20 — 92,951 ratings — published 2006
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,033,597 ratings — published 2008
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.52 — 118,546 ratings — published 2010
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.47 — 411,759 ratings — published 2016
An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.23 — 353,105 ratings — published 2015
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,761,867 ratings — published 2007
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.28 — 55,756 ratings — published 2008
Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.04 — 39,659 ratings — published 1993
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.40 — 370,344 ratings — published 2015
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.27 — 838,775 ratings — published 2014
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,912,752 ratings — published 2005
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,963,869 ratings — published 1960
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,772,028 ratings — published 2010
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 3.98 — 497,927 ratings — published 1987
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,636,380 ratings — published 1945
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 3.66 — 141,489 ratings — published 2003
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.04 — 105,377 ratings — published 1940
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,888,216 ratings — published 1953
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,142,625 ratings — published 2025
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.46 — 101,365 ratings — published 2009
Twelve Years a Slave (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.23 — 125,546 ratings — published 1853
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.40 — 208,541 ratings — published 2007
Matched (Matched, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 3.62 — 817,030 ratings — published 2010
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.07 — 368,564 ratings — published 1892
Alchemised (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.35 — 247,766 ratings — published 2025
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.34 — 173,329 ratings — published 2019
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,042 ratings — published 2019
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.16 — 172,961 ratings — published 2018
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.28 — 199,913 ratings — published 2016
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,045,153 ratings — published 2009
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.16 — 628,752 ratings — published 2012
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.31 — 279,811 ratings — published 1979
Noughts & Crosses (Noughts & Crosses, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.17 — 83,931 ratings — published 2001
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.01 — 72,588 ratings — published 2012
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,530,918 ratings — published 2003
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.30 — 587,313 ratings — published 1969
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.36 — 55,076 ratings — published 2000
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.37 — 294,122 ratings — published 1965
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 3.44 — 927,418 ratings — published 1850
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.28 — 759,506 ratings — published 1982
Number the Stars (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.20 — 626,647 ratings — published 1989
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,237,171 ratings — published 1947
“Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.”
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“When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.”
― The Complete Persepolis
― The Complete Persepolis
