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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 297 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,400,345 ratings — published 1949
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 293 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,499,452 ratings — published 1945
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 186 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,062,432 ratings — published 1932
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 177 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,397,140 ratings — published 1985
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 177 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,805,892 ratings — published 1953
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,827,573 ratings — published 1960
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,862,983 ratings — published 1925
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,177,636 ratings — published 1954
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 107 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,787,170 ratings — published 1993
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,757,780 ratings — published 1813
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,004,911 ratings — published 2017
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.40 — 364,515 ratings — published 2015
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 97 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,816,191 ratings — published 2008
The Jungle (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.78 — 154,157 ratings — published 1906
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.84 — 500,972 ratings — published 2016
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 78 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.65 — 195,294 ratings — published 2001
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.03 — 989,026 ratings — published 1939
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,004,258 ratings — published 2023
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 71 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,333,941 ratings — published 1885
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,475,728 ratings — published 1969
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.52 — 160,170 ratings — published 2020
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.92 — 201,333 ratings — published 1952
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,002,044 ratings — published 2009
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 62 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,687,335 ratings — published 2010
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.52 — 116,834 ratings — published 2010
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 62 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.35 — 4,117,854 ratings — published 2009
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.47 — 113,118 ratings — published 2016
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.44 — 914,882 ratings — published 1850
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 58 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.74 — 410,559 ratings — published 1958
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.21 — 840,311 ratings — published 1862
The Casual Vacancy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.31 — 336,841 ratings — published 2012
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,855,689 ratings — published 1890
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,812,361 ratings — published 1937
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.99 — 883,853 ratings — published 1961
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.00 — 766,078 ratings — published 1962
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.20 — 777,462 ratings — published 1962
Atlas Shrugged (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.69 — 406,105 ratings — published 1957
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 51 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.16 — 171,712 ratings — published 2018
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.13 — 800,466 ratings — published 2010
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.62 — 260,133 ratings — published 2014
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.77 — 574,048 ratings — published 2019
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.85 — 845,490 ratings — published 2005
Oliver Twist (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.88 — 425,980 ratings — published 1838
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.17 — 37,898 ratings — published 1985
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.18 — 639,962 ratings — published 1996
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.47 — 775,203 ratings — published 2022
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 47 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.39 — 328,152 ratings — published 2012
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,862,082 ratings — published 1818
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.61 — 461,764 ratings — published 1953
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.67 — 368,259 ratings — published 2016
“What interests me, personally, is work which in some way, speaks the truth to power…I don’t think we speak the truth to power for power’s ear, but for the ear and the imagination of future generations, who would seek to live in a world free from the malign and self-serving influence of those who wield it.”
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“Those who had nothing substantial to brag about bragged the loudest.”
― Katabasis
― Katabasis
