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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 — 359,405 ratings — published 2006
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,040,202 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 — 637,542 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 — 55,907 ratings — published 2008
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.40 — 375,276 ratings — published 2015
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.48 — 842,486 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 — 123,947 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 — 25,094 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 — 119,138 ratings — published 2012
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.32 — 288,921 ratings — published 2025
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.36 — 286,600 ratings — published 2011
Salt to the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.35 — 269,138 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 — 174,211 ratings — published 2018
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.52 — 167,365 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 — 65,245 ratings — published 2019
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,320,716 ratings — published 2011
Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness (Ordinary Terrible Things)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,504 ratings — published 2020
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,960,243 ratings — published 2018
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.47 — 117,948 ratings — published 2016
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.00 — 143,840 ratings — published 2015
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.62 — 271,139 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 — 13,975 ratings — published 2008
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.46 — 104,462 ratings — published 2009
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 770,728 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 — 73,455 ratings — published 2012
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.06 — 57,005 ratings — published 1962
Infidel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.20 — 93,509 ratings — published 2006
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,314,699 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 — 909,860 ratings — published 2005
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,095,372 ratings — published 1960
The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, The Accident (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 5,721 ratings — published 1961
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,090,290 ratings — published 2020
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,060,320 ratings — published 2014
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,808,396 ratings — published 2007
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,001,370 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 — 27,049 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 — 9,382 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 4.49 — 39,003 ratings — published 2020
I Must Betray You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.39 — 107,037 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 — 44,728 ratings — published 2019
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,672 ratings — published 2018
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.46 — 55,151 ratings — published 2020
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,350,713 ratings — published 2015
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.15 — 543,165 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 — 65,943 ratings — published 2020
American Dirt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.36 — 720,855 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 — 343,639 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 — 306,363 ratings — published 2014
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.39 — 340,405 ratings — published 2012
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.22 — 15,155 ratings — published 2019
“We must do all we can to imagine the Other before we presume to solve the problems work and life demand of us.”
― The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
― The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
“All men are weak,' said Phin.
'That's the whole bloody trouble with the world. Too weak to love properly. Too weak to be wrong.'
My breath caught at the power of this statement. I immediately knew it to be the truest thing I'd ever heard. The weakness of men lay at the root of every bad thing that had ever happened.”
― The Family Upstairs
'That's the whole bloody trouble with the world. Too weak to love properly. Too weak to be wrong.'
My breath caught at the power of this statement. I immediately knew it to be the truest thing I'd ever heard. The weakness of men lay at the root of every bad thing that had ever happened.”
― The Family Upstairs
