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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 307 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,653,473 ratings — published 1948
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 303 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,714,586 ratings — published 1945
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 187 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,125,461 ratings — published 1932
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 183 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,934,215 ratings — published 1963
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 182 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,511,863 ratings — published 1985
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,060,592 ratings — published 1925
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 149 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,036,667 ratings — published 1960
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,273,902 ratings — published 1954
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,936,844 ratings — published 1813
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 108 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,868,298 ratings — published 1993
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,032,612 ratings — published 2017
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 100 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,146,363 ratings — published 2008
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.40 — 373,267 ratings — published 2015
The Jungle (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.78 — 156,768 ratings — published 1906
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,120,042 ratings — published 2023
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 78 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,429 ratings — published 2001
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.83 — 511,246 ratings — published 2016
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,014,654 ratings — published 1939
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 73 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,347,670 ratings — published 1885
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.52 — 165,972 ratings — published 2020
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,067,862 ratings — published 2009
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,511,080 ratings — published 1969
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.92 — 205,289 ratings — published 1952
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 64 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,270,032 ratings — published 2009
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 63 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,819,715 ratings — published 2010
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.47 — 116,930 ratings — published 2016
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.52 — 119,458 ratings — published 2010
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.44 — 934,313 ratings — published 1850
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.75 — 421,572 ratings — published 1958
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.21 — 856,084 ratings — published 1862
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,907,588 ratings — published 1937
The Casual Vacancy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.31 — 338,838 ratings — published 2012
Atlas Shrugged (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.69 — 410,346 ratings — published 1957
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.46 — 864,909 ratings — published 2022
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,955,656 ratings — published 1890
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.99 — 898,316 ratings — published 1961
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.00 — 784,892 ratings — published 1962
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.20 — 790,460 ratings — published 1962
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.13 — 820,488 ratings — published 2010
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,857,891 ratings — published 2022
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 51 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.16 — 173,720 ratings — published 2018
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.18 — 656,494 ratings — published 1996
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.77 — 585,259 ratings — published 2019
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.85 — 892,055 ratings — published 2005
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.17 — 40,559 ratings — published 1985
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.62 — 268,835 ratings — published 2014
Oliver Twist (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.88 — 434,280 ratings — published 1838
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.67 — 396,984 ratings — published 2016
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,965,321 ratings — published 1818
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.49 — 831,775 ratings — published 2016
“In one breath, you fear the government getting involved with unions, welfare, or immigration laws all, in essence, aimed at helping our poor fellow Americanyet, in another breath, you look for tariffs and even subsidies.”
― The Arnolfini Art Mysteries
― The Arnolfini Art Mysteries
“Puzzlement radiated from them, thought Mary, as if not recognizing that the beings staring at back at them were human.”
― The Swan Lake Murders
― The Swan Lake Murders
