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Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code—Socialism with a Human Face: A New World Order (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 63 times as social-change)
avg rating 4.29 — 16,686 ratings — published 2017
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as social-change)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,176 ratings — published 1988
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as social-change)
avg rating 4.30 — 40,148 ratings — published 1968
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as social-change)
avg rating 3.69 — 204,298 ratings — published 1848
To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as social-change)
avg rating 4.17 — 837 ratings — published 2024
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as social-change)
avg rating 4.40 — 372,220 ratings — published 2015
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as social-change)
avg rating 4.52 — 119,120 ratings — published 2010
The Law (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as social-change)
avg rating 4.33 — 14,516 ratings — published 1849
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as social-change)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,361 ratings — published 2019
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent Strategy, #0)
by (shelved 16 times as social-change)
avg rating 4.24 — 10,163 ratings — published 2017
The Gulag Archipelago (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as social-change)
avg rating 4.35 — 14,433 ratings — published 1973
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as social-change)
avg rating 4.47 — 116,407 ratings — published 2016
The Naked Communist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as social-change)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,791 ratings — published 1960
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as social-change)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,349 ratings — published 2018
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as social-change)
avg rating 4.62 — 267,734 ratings — published 2014
What Is to Be Done? (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as social-change)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,733 ratings — published 1902
Gulag: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as social-change)
avg rating 4.29 — 14,126 ratings — published 2003
Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as social-change)
avg rating 4.16 — 18,573 ratings — published 2020
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as social-change)
avg rating 4.53 — 38,941 ratings — published 2016
How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as social-change)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,187 ratings — published 2013
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as social-change)
avg rating 4.01 — 862,075 ratings — published 2000
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as social-change)
avg rating 4.27 — 11,340 ratings — published 1917
Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as social-change)
avg rating 3.55 — 84,681 ratings — published 1516
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as social-change)
avg rating 4.52 — 165,273 ratings — published 2020
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 11 times as social-change)
avg rating 4.16 — 173,465 ratings — published 2018
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as social-change)
avg rating 4.12 — 10,449 ratings — published 1991
Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as social-change)
avg rating 3.74 — 8,747 ratings — published 1971
Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as social-change)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,219 ratings — published 1997
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as social-change)
avg rating 4.28 — 55,818 ratings — published 2008
The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as social-change)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,399 ratings — published 2024
Why Socialism Works (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as social-change)
avg rating 4.21 — 674 ratings — published
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as social-change)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,028,565 ratings — published 2017
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as social-change)
avg rating 4.18 — 23,533 ratings — published 2008
The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as social-change)
avg rating 3.74 — 474 ratings — published 2008
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as social-change)
avg rating 4.49 — 25,901 ratings — published 2018
No Shortcuts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as social-change)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,442 ratings — published 2016
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as social-change)
avg rating 4.44 — 36,891 ratings — published 2015
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as social-change)
avg rating 3.83 — 510,141 ratings — published 2016
Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as social-change)
avg rating 3.80 — 42,514 ratings — published 2008
We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as social-change)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,003 ratings — published 1990
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as social-change)
avg rating 4.19 — 879,474 ratings — published 2008
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as social-change)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,466 ratings — published 2007
Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing and Advocacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as social-change)
avg rating 4.05 — 156 ratings — published 2003
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as social-change)
avg rating 3.85 — 8,028 ratings — published 2007
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as social-change)
avg rating 4.33 — 176,195 ratings — published 2019
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as social-change)
avg rating 4.20 — 89,720 ratings — published 2003
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as social-change)
avg rating 4.49 — 827,021 ratings — published 2016
Systems Thinking For Social Change: A Practical Guide to Solving Complex Problems, Avoiding Unintended Consequences, and Achieving Lasting Results (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as social-change)
avg rating 3.78 — 867 ratings — published 2015
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as social-change)
avg rating 4.37 — 101,659 ratings — published 2017
March: Book One (March, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as social-change)
avg rating 4.35 — 57,834 ratings — published 2013
“Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.”
― Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
― Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
“Even today we don't pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relatively untouched by it. Most people distance themselves from the issue by saying that if the poor worked harder, they wouldn't be poor.”
― Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
― Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty












