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The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 331 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,017,835 ratings — published 2017
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 256 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.52 — 117,937 ratings — published 2010
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 236 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.47 — 114,795 ratings — published 2016
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 225 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.40 — 368,830 ratings — published 2015
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 199 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.62 — 263,813 ratings — published 2014
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 184 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.16 — 172,626 ratings — published 2018
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 174 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.52 — 162,877 ratings — published 2020
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 172 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.48 — 107,981 ratings — published 2018
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 160 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,752 ratings — published 2019
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,930,105 ratings — published 1960
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 149 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.39 — 332,679 ratings — published 2012
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 149 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.65 — 195,785 ratings — published 2001
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.84 — 506,698 ratings — published 2016
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 130 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.27 — 62,832 ratings — published 2023
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,450,006 ratings — published 1985
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.34 — 171,090 ratings — published 2019
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.13 — 809,045 ratings — published 2010
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.53 — 38,605 ratings — published 2016
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.35 — 63,859 ratings — published 2020
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.05 — 633,735 ratings — published 1999
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 — 46,488 ratings — published 2017
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,600,293 ratings — published 1945
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,520,586 ratings — published 1948
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.37 — 101,187 ratings — published 2017
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.49 — 813,806 ratings — published 2016
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,035,374 ratings — published 2009
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,027,189 ratings — published 2007
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.12 — 861,644 ratings — published 2020
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.46 — 54,558 ratings — published 2020
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.16 — 626,450 ratings — published 2012
Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1)
by (shelved 77 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.33 — 85,862 ratings — published 2017
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 77 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.55 — 123,198 ratings — published 1963
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.77 — 579,127 ratings — published 2019
Know My Name (ebook)
by (shelved 75 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.68 — 261,042 ratings — published 2019
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.44 — 36,161 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 — 27,234 ratings — published 1997
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,881,195 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 — 117,874 ratings — published 2010
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.37 — 73,595 ratings — published 2018
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.46 — 14,860 ratings — published 2016
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 756,414 ratings — published 1982
All American Boys (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 50,387 ratings — published 2015
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.83 — 88,121 ratings — published 2014
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.59 — 34,905 ratings — published 1981
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.02 — 50,806 ratings — published 2017
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.92 — 119,162 ratings — published 2014
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 55,722 ratings — published 2008
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.80 — 119,508 ratings — published 2021
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.98 — 117,255 ratings — published 2012
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,806,406 ratings — published 2022
“Young women get to date who they want while men date who they can but when they get older men marry who they want and women marry who they can.”
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