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The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,444,030 ratings — published 1985
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.30 — 39,435 ratings — published 1968
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,507,799 ratings — published 1948
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.28 — 336,640 ratings — published 2015
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,182,011 ratings — published 2009
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,370,014 ratings — published 1956
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,016,506 ratings — published 2017
The Orphan Master's Son (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.07 — 104,467 ratings — published 2012
Infidel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.20 — 92,762 ratings — published 2006
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,966,939 ratings — published 2008
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.52 — 117,778 ratings — published 2010
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.47 — 406,630 ratings — published 2016
An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.24 — 349,737 ratings — published 2015
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,746,805 ratings — published 2007
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.28 — 55,701 ratings — published 2008
Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.04 — 39,524 ratings — published 1993
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.40 — 368,233 ratings — published 2015
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.27 — 801,250 ratings — published 2014
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,893,991 ratings — published 2005
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,920,640 ratings — published 1960
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,743,137 ratings — published 2010
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 3.98 — 493,466 ratings — published 1987
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,589,754 ratings — published 1945
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 3.66 — 140,718 ratings — published 2003
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.04 — 104,943 ratings — published 1940
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,859,676 ratings — published 1953
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,092,374 ratings — published 2025
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.46 — 100,389 ratings — published 2009
Twelve Years a Slave (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.23 — 125,376 ratings — published 1853
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.40 — 206,590 ratings — published 2007
Matched (Matched, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 3.62 — 815,755 ratings — published 2010
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.37 — 292,518 ratings — published 1965
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.07 — 362,948 ratings — published 1892
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,212,007 ratings — published 1947
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.34 — 170,530 ratings — published 2019
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,672 ratings — published 2019
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.16 — 172,504 ratings — published 2018
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.29 — 197,647 ratings — published 2016
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,032,432 ratings — published 2009
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.16 — 625,817 ratings — published 2012
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.31 — 274,533 ratings — published 1979
Noughts & Crosses (Noughts & Crosses, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.17 — 83,302 ratings — published 2001
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.01 — 72,278 ratings — published 2012
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,509,993 ratings — published 2003
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.30 — 583,935 ratings — published 1969
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.36 — 54,547 ratings — published 2000
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 3.44 — 923,237 ratings — published 1850
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.28 — 755,397 ratings — published 1982
Number the Stars (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.20 — 623,508 ratings — published 1989
Alchemised (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.38 — 203,570 ratings — published 2025
“When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.”
― The Complete Persepolis
― The Complete Persepolis
“Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future.”
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
