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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as world-issues)
avg rating 3.66 — 359,591 ratings — published 2006
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,046,047 ratings — published 2017
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.16 — 641,009 ratings — published 2012
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 55,958 ratings — published 2008
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.40 — 377,131 ratings — published 2015
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.48 — 852,113 ratings — published 2016
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.18 — 125,777 ratings — published 2015
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.27 — 25,244 ratings — published 2011
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as world-issues)
avg rating 3.98 — 119,580 ratings — published 2012
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.31 — 305,260 ratings — published 2025
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.36 — 288,529 ratings — published 2011
Salt to the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.35 — 272,133 ratings — published 2016
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,626 ratings — published 2018
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.52 — 168,941 ratings — published 2020
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.27 — 65,396 ratings — published 2019
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,334,773 ratings — published 2011
Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness (Ordinary Terrible Things)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,509 ratings — published 2020
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,984,464 ratings — published 2018
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.47 — 118,770 ratings — published 2016
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.00 — 145,214 ratings — published 2015
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.62 — 273,093 ratings — published 2014
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 3.71 — 13,983 ratings — published 2008
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.46 — 105,825 ratings — published 2009
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 774,910 ratings — published 1982
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.01 — 73,821 ratings — published 2012
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.06 — 57,435 ratings — published 1962
Infidel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.20 — 93,767 ratings — published 2006
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,342,355 ratings — published 1947
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.01 — 912,827 ratings — published 2005
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,141,577 ratings — published 1960
The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, The Accident (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.27 — 5,760 ratings — published 1961
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,113,020 ratings — published 2020
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,076,717 ratings — published 2014
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,826,572 ratings — published 2007
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,009,051 ratings — published 2006
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.18 — 27,585 ratings — published 2021
The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.08 — 9,435 ratings — published 2021
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.48 — 39,835 ratings — published 2020
I Must Betray You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.39 — 108,779 ratings — published 2022
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.33 — 44,882 ratings — published 2019
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,857 ratings — published 2018
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.46 — 55,274 ratings — published 2020
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,403,464 ratings — published 2015
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.15 — 556,044 ratings — published 2018
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.35 — 66,406 ratings — published 2020
American Dirt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.36 — 728,490 ratings — published 2020
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.00 — 345,301 ratings — published 2019
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.33 — 312,031 ratings — published 2014
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.39 — 342,668 ratings — published 2012
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.21 — 15,236 ratings — published 2019
“Compassion, acceptance and LOVE is the cure to MOST of the issues that plague this world.”
― The Day My Soul Cried: A Memoir
― The Day My Soul Cried: A Memoir
“Why hasn't someone lassoed a few teenagers and had them sit down and write out all the supposed answers they have so we can solve the world's problems already?”
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