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The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,588,478 ratings — published 1985
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,826,809 ratings — published 1949
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.30 — 41,400 ratings — published 1968
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.28 — 358,414 ratings — published 2015
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,378,226 ratings — published 2009
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,359,643 ratings — published 2008
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,049,464 ratings — published 2017
The Orphan Master's Son (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.07 — 106,657 ratings — published 2012
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,412,213 ratings — published 2012
Infidel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.20 — 93,941 ratings — published 2006
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.52 — 121,049 ratings — published 2010
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.46 — 433,796 ratings — published 2016
An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.23 — 366,325 ratings — published 2015
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,998,906 ratings — published 2005
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,837,461 ratings — published 2007
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.28 — 55,975 ratings — published 2008
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,862,615 ratings — published 1945
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,022,535 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 — 40,723 ratings — published 1993
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.49 — 1,399,945 ratings — published 2025
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.40 — 378,452 ratings — published 2015
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,028,403 ratings — published 2014
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,168,190 ratings — published 1960
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,913,885 ratings — published 2010
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 3.99 — 520,449 ratings — published 1987
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 3.67 — 144,892 ratings — published 2003
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.05 — 108,301 ratings — published 1940
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.10 — 261,879 ratings — published 2018
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.46 — 106,622 ratings — published 2009
Twelve Years a Slave (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.23 — 127,823 ratings — published 1853
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.41 — 219,416 ratings — published 2007
Matched (Matched, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 3.62 — 822,947 ratings — published 2010
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.37 — 302,306 ratings — published 1965
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.06 — 393,843 ratings — published 1892
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.28 — 777,479 ratings — published 1982
Alchemised (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.29 — 393,856 ratings — published 2025
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.33 — 185,688 ratings — published 2019
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.36 — 121,329 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 — 174,881 ratings — published 2018
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.28 — 209,274 ratings — published 2016
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,113,277 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 — 642,758 ratings — published 2012
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.31 — 299,741 ratings — published 1979
Noughts & Crosses (Noughts & Crosses, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.16 — 86,035 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 — 74,024 ratings — published 2012
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,634,374 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 — 601,823 ratings — published 1969
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.37 — 57,161 ratings — published 2000
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 3.44 — 946,509 ratings — published 1850
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,961,782 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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“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
