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The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,489,028 ratings — published 1985
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.30 — 40,046 ratings — published 1968
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,606,090 ratings — published 1948
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.28 — 344,028 ratings — published 2015
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,241,099 ratings — published 2009
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,027,099 ratings — published 2017
The Orphan Master's Son (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.07 — 105,145 ratings — published 2012
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,383,958 ratings — published 1956
Infidel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.20 — 93,115 ratings — published 2006
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,085,741 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 — 118,981 ratings — published 2010
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.47 — 415,342 ratings — published 2016
An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.23 — 355,514 ratings — published 2015
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,773,335 ratings — published 2007
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.28 — 55,795 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 — 39,780 ratings — published 1993
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.40 — 371,735 ratings — published 2015
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.27 — 868,859 ratings — published 2014
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,927,395 ratings — published 2005
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,996,578 ratings — published 1960
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,794,670 ratings — published 2010
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 3.98 — 501,310 ratings — published 1987
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,671,926 ratings — published 1945
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 3.67 — 142,122 ratings — published 2003
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.04 — 106,111 ratings — published 1940
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,909,634 ratings — published 1953
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,182,849 ratings — published 2025
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.46 — 102,088 ratings — published 2009
Twelve Years a Slave (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.23 — 125,945 ratings — published 1853
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.40 — 210,061 ratings — published 2007
Matched (Matched, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 3.62 — 818,126 ratings — published 2010
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.07 — 372,725 ratings — published 1892
Alchemised (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.33 — 278,614 ratings — published 2025
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.33 — 175,537 ratings — published 2019
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,273 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 — 173,342 ratings — published 2018
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.10 — 254,244 ratings — published 2018
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.28 — 201,615 ratings — published 2016
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,055,397 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 — 631,233 ratings — published 2012
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.31 — 282,754 ratings — published 1979
Noughts & Crosses (Noughts & Crosses, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.17 — 84,309 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 — 72,818 ratings — published 2012
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,547,453 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 — 589,871 ratings — published 1969
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.36 — 55,436 ratings — published 2000
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.37 — 295,403 ratings — published 1965
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 3.44 — 930,693 ratings — published 1850
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.28 — 762,551 ratings — published 1982
Number the Stars (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.20 — 628,981 ratings — published 1989
“When we identify where our privilege intersects with somebody else's oppression, we'll find our opportunities to make real change.”
― So You Want to Talk About Race
― So You Want to Talk About Race
“I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the system of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash, but I don't think it will be based on the color of the skin...”
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