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The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,401,119 ratings — published 1985
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.30 — 38,995 ratings — published 1968
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,410,421 ratings — published 1949
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1)
by (shelved 10 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.29 — 330,761 ratings — published 2015
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,123,812 ratings — published 2009
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,356,541 ratings — published 1956
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,005,919 ratings — published 2017
The Orphan Master's Son (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.07 — 104,002 ratings — published 2012
Infidel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.20 — 92,492 ratings — published 2006
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,830,572 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 — 116,901 ratings — published 2010
An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.24 — 345,265 ratings — published 2015
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,724,628 ratings — published 2007
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.28 — 55,615 ratings — published 2008
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,811,002 ratings — published 1953
Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.04 — 39,344 ratings — published 1993
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.40 — 364,886 ratings — published 2015
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.47 — 400,204 ratings — published 2016
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.27 — 749,410 ratings — published 2014
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,860,833 ratings — published 2005
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,836,181 ratings — published 1960
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,692,588 ratings — published 2010
Matched (Matched, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 3.62 — 813,896 ratings — published 2010
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 3.98 — 488,217 ratings — published 1987
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,508,202 ratings — published 1945
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 3.66 — 140,074 ratings — published 2003
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.04 — 104,451 ratings — published 1940
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.51 — 991,560 ratings — published 2025
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.46 — 99,087 ratings — published 2009
Twelve Years a Slave (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.23 — 124,664 ratings — published 1853
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.40 — 204,340 ratings — published 2007
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.37 — 290,191 ratings — published 1965
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.07 — 354,744 ratings — published 1892
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,163,961 ratings — published 1947
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.34 — 166,422 ratings — published 2019
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,203 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 — 171,763 ratings — published 2018
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.29 — 194,852 ratings — published 2016
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,004,437 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 — 620,575 ratings — published 2012
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.31 — 269,218 ratings — published 1979
Noughts & Crosses (Noughts & Crosses, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.17 — 82,268 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 — 71,839 ratings — published 2012
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,472,378 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 — 578,723 ratings — published 1969
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.36 — 53,873 ratings — published 2000
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 3.44 — 915,646 ratings — published 1850
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.28 — 749,534 ratings — published 1982
Number the Stars (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.20 — 617,832 ratings — published 1989
Alchemised (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.43 — 130,225 ratings — published 2025
“It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.”
― Freedom from Fear
― Freedom from Fear
“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
