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The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,542,593 ratings — published 1985
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.30 — 40,798 ratings — published 1968
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,720,890 ratings — published 1949
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.28 — 351,769 ratings — published 2015
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,309,545 ratings — published 2009
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,039,639 ratings — published 2017
The Orphan Master's Son (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.07 — 105,958 ratings — published 2012
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,398,418 ratings — published 1956
Infidel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.20 — 93,491 ratings — published 2006
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,229,590 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 — 120,130 ratings — published 2010
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.47 — 425,200 ratings — published 2016
An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.23 — 361,615 ratings — published 2015
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,965,752 ratings — published 2005
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,806,666 ratings — published 2007
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.28 — 55,904 ratings — published 2008
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,968,307 ratings — published 1963
Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.04 — 40,473 ratings — published 1993
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,277,090 ratings — published 2025
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.40 — 375,129 ratings — published 2015
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.27 — 950,864 ratings — published 2014
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,090,941 ratings — published 1960
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,853,773 ratings — published 2010
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 3.99 — 511,068 ratings — published 1987
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,779,090 ratings — published 1945
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 3.67 — 143,482 ratings — published 2003
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.05 — 107,487 ratings — published 1940
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.46 — 104,362 ratings — published 2009
Twelve Years a Slave (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.23 — 126,885 ratings — published 1853
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.41 — 215,161 ratings — published 2007
Matched (Matched, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 3.62 — 820,703 ratings — published 2010
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.37 — 298,653 ratings — published 1965
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.06 — 383,566 ratings — published 1892
Alchemised (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.30 — 344,417 ratings — published 2025
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.33 — 180,395 ratings — published 2019
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,865 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 — 174,165 ratings — published 2018
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.10 — 257,509 ratings — published 2018
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.28 — 205,692 ratings — published 2016
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,086,156 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 — 637,229 ratings — published 2012
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.31 — 291,679 ratings — published 1979
Noughts & Crosses (Noughts & Crosses, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.16 — 85,254 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 — 73,431 ratings — published 2012
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,594,118 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 — 596,060 ratings — published 1969
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.36 — 56,289 ratings — published 2000
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 3.44 — 939,193 ratings — published 1850
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.28 — 770,369 ratings — published 1982
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,905,943 ratings — published 2003
“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”
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“When we identify where our privilege intersects with somebody else's oppression, we'll find our opportunities to make real change.”
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