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The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 329 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,024,391 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 — 118,706 ratings — published 2010
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 235 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.47 — 115,741 ratings — published 2016
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 225 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.40 — 370,882 ratings — published 2015
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 200 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.62 — 266,219 ratings — published 2014
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 183 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.16 — 173,120 ratings — published 2018
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 174 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.52 — 164,355 ratings — published 2020
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 171 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,223 ratings — published 2018
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 159 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,119 ratings — published 2019
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,976,935 ratings — published 1960
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 149 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,083 ratings — published 2001
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 147 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.39 — 335,230 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 — 509,015 ratings — published 2016
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 131 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.27 — 64,146 ratings — published 2023
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 127 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,477,577 ratings — published 1985
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.33 — 174,248 ratings — published 2019
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.13 — 814,181 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 — 38,796 ratings — published 2016
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.35 — 64,563 ratings — published 2020
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.44 — 47,038 ratings — published 2017
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.05 — 636,231 ratings — published 1999
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,650,625 ratings — published 1945
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,581,004 ratings — published 1948
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.37 — 101,468 ratings — published 2017
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.49 — 821,631 ratings — published 2016
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,049,216 ratings — published 2009
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.12 — 868,454 ratings — published 2020
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.46 — 54,787 ratings — published 2020
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,029,688 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 — 629,755 ratings — published 2012
Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1)
by (shelved 77 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.33 — 86,269 ratings — published 2017
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 77 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.55 — 125,107 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 — 36,644 ratings — published 2015
Know My Name (ebook)
by (shelved 75 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.68 — 264,594 ratings — published 2019
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.34 — 27,328 ratings — published 1997
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.77 — 582,007 ratings — published 2019
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,903,756 ratings — published 2018
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 — 119,072 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 — 73,830 ratings — published 2018
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.46 — 14,923 ratings — published 2016
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 760,743 ratings — published 1982
All American Boys (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 50,717 ratings — published 2015
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.82 — 88,808 ratings — published 2014
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.59 — 35,384 ratings — published 1981
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.02 — 51,002 ratings — published 2017
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.92 — 119,825 ratings — published 2014
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.98 — 117,851 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 — 55,771 ratings — published 2008
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,829,902 ratings — published 2022
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.80 — 121,693 ratings — published 2021
“Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.”
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“According to The History of the Body, edited by Corbin, Courtine, and Vigarello, the "criminalization of the gaze" that took hold around the dawn of the twentieth century had led to the decline of the freak show, which was subsequently replaced in popularity by the Monsters of Hollywood. Now, with costumes serving as an ethical cushion, people could enjoy ogling deformity without guilt or reserve.”
― Hunchback
― Hunchback
