Social Issues

A social issue is a problem that influences a considerable number of the individuals within a society. It is often the consequence of factors extending beyond an individual's social issue is the source of a conflicting opinion on the grounds of what is perceived as a morally just personal life or societal order.

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New Releases Tagged "Social Issues"

The New Age of Sexism: How AI and Emerging Technologies Are Reinventing Misogyny
Reasons to Hate Me
People Like Us
Rehab: An American Scandal
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Consider Yourself Kissed
Frank and Red
We Don't Talk About Carol
Poverty, by America
Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Men Who Hate Women
People Like Us
The Undocumented Americans
I Want to Burn This Place Down: Essays
Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream
We Are Not Like Them
The Hate U Give
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Between the World and Me
Just Mercy
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
So You Want to Talk About Race
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
How to Be an Antiracist
To Kill a Mockingbird
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
We Should All Be Feminists
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
The Handmaid's Tale
Poverty, by America
Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne JonesA Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienCastle in the Air by Diana Wynne JonesStardust by Neil Gaiman
Middle-Class Fantasy
71 books — 49 voters

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The Lab's List of Recommendations
94 books — 1 voter
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Bullied Boys
48 books — 23 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Literature of Social Change
433 books — 316 voters
MY DAUGHTER NATASHA by Artie DimancheThirteen Reasons Why by Jay AsherThere and Now by Eric ReeseInternment by Samira AhmedIt's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
Young Adult Books about Real Issues
67 books — 22 voters


Sadia Hakim
People, people, people — an ocean of people, but I can't find even a drop of humanity. ...more
Sadia Hakim, The Weight of Tender Things

Jess C. Scott
Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).
Jess C Scott, The Other Side of Life

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