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The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 328 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,030,441 ratings — published 2017
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 255 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.52 — 119,299 ratings — published 2010
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 235 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.47 — 116,649 ratings — published 2016
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 226 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.40 — 372,747 ratings — published 2015
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 202 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.62 — 268,262 ratings — published 2014
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 186 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.16 — 173,596 ratings — published 2018
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 174 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.52 — 165,601 ratings — published 2020
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 172 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,411 ratings — published 2018
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 159 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,437 ratings — published 2019
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,021,218 ratings — published 1960
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 149 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,358 ratings — published 2001
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 146 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.39 — 337,289 ratings — published 2012
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.83 — 510,718 ratings — published 2016
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.27 — 65,343 ratings — published 2023
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,503,028 ratings — published 1985
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.33 — 176,857 ratings — published 2019
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.13 — 818,986 ratings — published 2010
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.53 — 38,985 ratings — published 2016
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.43 — 47,550 ratings — published 2017
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.05 — 638,514 ratings — published 1999
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.35 — 65,151 ratings — published 2020
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,698,183 ratings — published 1945
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,635,116 ratings — published 1948
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.37 — 101,730 ratings — published 2017
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.49 — 829,270 ratings — published 2016
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,062,757 ratings — published 2009
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.12 — 873,539 ratings — published 2020
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.46 — 54,959 ratings — published 2020
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,032,225 ratings — published 2007
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.16 — 632,788 ratings — published 2012
Know My Name (ebook)
by (shelved 77 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.68 — 267,802 ratings — published 2019
Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1)
by (shelved 77 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.32 — 86,563 ratings — published 2017
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 77 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.55 — 126,636 ratings — published 1963
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.44 — 36,975 ratings — published 2015
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.34 — 27,423 ratings — published 1997
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,924,758 ratings — published 2018
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.77 — 584,473 ratings — published 2019
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.48 — 120,116 ratings — published 2010
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.37 — 74,004 ratings — published 2018
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.46 — 15,008 ratings — published 2016
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 764,613 ratings — published 1982
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.83 — 89,360 ratings — published 2014
All American Boys (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 50,999 ratings — published 2015
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.59 — 35,824 ratings — published 1981
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.02 — 51,226 ratings — published 2017
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.92 — 120,350 ratings — published 2014
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.98 — 118,400 ratings — published 2012
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 55,827 ratings — published 2008
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,850,437 ratings — published 2022
Small Great Things (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 61 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.36 — 450,309 ratings — published 2016
“So from day to day I read, and reading widened my mental horizon, creating a spiritual kinship with other men who had pondered over the miseries of their countries. Then it came to me that the place did not matter: these sensitive writers reacted to the social dynamics of their time. I, too, reacted to my time. I promised myself that I would read ten thousand books when I got well. I plunged into books, boring through the earth's core, leveling all seas and oceans, swimming in the constellations.”
― America Is in the Heart: A Personal History
― America Is in the Heart: A Personal History
“Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.”
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