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The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,542,526 ratings — published 1985
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.30 — 40,798 ratings — published 1968
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,720,728 ratings — published 1949
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.28 — 351,757 ratings — published 2015
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,309,503 ratings — published 2009
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,039,633 ratings — published 2017
The Orphan Master's Son (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.07 — 105,958 ratings — published 2012
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,398,403 ratings — published 1956
Infidel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.20 — 93,491 ratings — published 2006
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,229,481 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 — 120,128 ratings — published 2010
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.47 — 425,192 ratings — published 2016
An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.23 — 361,608 ratings — published 2015
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,965,707 ratings — published 2005
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,806,635 ratings — published 2007
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.28 — 55,904 ratings — published 2008
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,968,224 ratings — published 1963
Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.04 — 40,473 ratings — published 1993
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,277,001 ratings — published 2025
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.40 — 375,128 ratings — published 2015
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.27 — 950,784 ratings — published 2014
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,090,832 ratings — published 1960
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,853,710 ratings — published 2010
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 3.99 — 511,063 ratings — published 1987
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,778,985 ratings — published 1945
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 3.67 — 143,479 ratings — published 2003
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.05 — 107,487 ratings — published 1940
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.46 — 104,361 ratings — published 2009
Twelve Years a Slave (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.23 — 126,884 ratings — published 1853
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.41 — 215,156 ratings — published 2007
Matched (Matched, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 3.62 — 820,699 ratings — published 2010
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.37 — 298,649 ratings — published 1965
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.06 — 383,553 ratings — published 1892
Alchemised (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.30 — 344,370 ratings — published 2025
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.33 — 180,390 ratings — published 2019
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,865 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 — 174,164 ratings — published 2018
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.10 — 257,502 ratings — published 2018
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.28 — 205,690 ratings — published 2016
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,086,113 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 — 637,221 ratings — published 2012
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.31 — 291,671 ratings — published 1979
Noughts & Crosses (Noughts & Crosses, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.16 — 85,255 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 — 73,431 ratings — published 2012
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,594,075 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 — 596,054 ratings — published 1969
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.36 — 56,289 ratings — published 2000
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 3.44 — 939,183 ratings — published 1850
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.28 — 770,364 ratings — published 1982
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,905,897 ratings — published 2003
“It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”
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