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Inequality Books
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The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as inequality)
avg rating 4.02 — 9,927 ratings — published 2012
Capital in the Twenty First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as inequality)
avg rating 4.06 — 34,531 ratings — published 2013
The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as inequality)
avg rating 4.13 — 7,180 ratings — published 2009
Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as inequality)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,125 ratings — published 2007
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as inequality)
avg rating 4.47 — 113,698 ratings — published 2016
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as inequality)
avg rating 4.52 — 117,170 ratings — published 2010
The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as inequality)
avg rating 4.62 — 3,896 ratings — published 2017
Inequality: What Can Be Done? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as inequality)
avg rating 3.82 — 621 ratings — published 2015
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 24 times as inequality)
avg rating 3.65 — 195,449 ratings — published 2001
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as inequality)
avg rating 4.52 — 161,116 ratings — published 2020
Capital and Ideology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as inequality)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,076 ratings — published 2019
The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as inequality)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,458 ratings — published 2013
The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as inequality)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,609 ratings — published 2014
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as inequality)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,978 ratings — published 1991
A Brief History of Equality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as inequality)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,292 ratings — published 2021
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as inequality)
avg rating 4.13 — 17,188 ratings — published 2018
The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as inequality)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,084 ratings — published 2018
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
by (shelved 18 times as inequality)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,649 ratings — published 2017
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as inequality)
avg rating 4.34 — 167,791 ratings — published 2019
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as inequality)
avg rating 3.84 — 503,685 ratings — published 2016
The Economics of Inequality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as inequality)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,697 ratings — published 1997
The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as inequality)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,292 ratings — published 2019
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as inequality)
avg rating 4.40 — 366,029 ratings — published 2015
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as inequality)
avg rating 4.27 — 61,260 ratings — published 2023
The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as inequality)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,476 ratings — published 2019
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as inequality)
avg rating 3.87 — 30,032 ratings — published 2016
The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as inequality)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,341 ratings — published 2015
The Haves and the Have-Nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as inequality)
avg rating 3.76 — 591 ratings — published 2010
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as inequality)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,811 ratings — published 2018
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as inequality)
avg rating 4.62 — 261,348 ratings — published 2014
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as inequality)
avg rating 4.44 — 45,863 ratings — published 2017
The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as inequality)
avg rating 4.19 — 13,954 ratings — published 2020
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as inequality)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,373 ratings — published 2019
Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as inequality)
avg rating 3.72 — 2,547 ratings — published 2017
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as inequality)
avg rating 4.09 — 62,820 ratings — published 2012
Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as inequality)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,028 ratings — published 2020
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as inequality)
avg rating 4.47 — 2,342 ratings — published 2017
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 10 times as inequality)
avg rating 4.16 — 172,031 ratings — published 2018
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as inequality)
avg rating 3.77 — 25,066 ratings — published 2016
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as inequality)
avg rating 4.13 — 803,862 ratings — published 2010
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as inequality)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,874,069 ratings — published 1960
The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as inequality)
avg rating 4.02 — 969 ratings — published 2019
Unbound: How Inequality Constricts Our Economy and What We Can Do about It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as inequality)
avg rating 4.21 — 156 ratings — published
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as inequality)
avg rating 4.48 — 116,747 ratings — published 2010
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as inequality)
avg rating 4.30 — 53,683 ratings — published 2007
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as inequality)
avg rating 4.27 — 24,375 ratings — published 2011
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as inequality)
avg rating 3.79 — 18,915 ratings — published 1755
Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as inequality)
avg rating 3.99 — 6,072 ratings — published 2012
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as inequality)
avg rating 4.30 — 39,136 ratings — published 1968
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as inequality)
avg rating 4.48 — 107,799 ratings — published 2018
“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.”
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