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Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 307 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,862,524 ratings — published 1945
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 307 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,826,678 ratings — published 1949
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 188 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,169,759 ratings — published 1932
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 188 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,022,461 ratings — published 1963
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 183 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,588,429 ratings — published 1985
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,185,881 ratings — published 1925
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,168,106 ratings — published 1960
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 149 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,339,355 ratings — published 1954
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.30 — 5,051,406 ratings — published 1813
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 108 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,921,359 ratings — published 1993
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 105 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,359,428 ratings — published 2008
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,049,444 ratings — published 2017
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.40 — 378,452 ratings — published 2015
The Jungle (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.79 — 158,859 ratings — published 1906
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,194,377 ratings — published 2023
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 81 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.66 — 197,117 ratings — published 2001
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.83 — 517,306 ratings — published 2016
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,035,937 ratings — published 1939
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 74 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,357,940 ratings — published 1885
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.52 — 170,114 ratings — published 2020
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,113,249 ratings — published 2009
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,537,453 ratings — published 1969
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.93 — 207,823 ratings — published 1952
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 66 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,378,127 ratings — published 2009
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 64 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,913,805 ratings — published 2010
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.47 — 119,269 ratings — published 2016
Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.30 — 35,423 ratings — published 2019
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.52 — 121,048 ratings — published 2010
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.75 — 429,547 ratings — published 1958
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.44 — 946,501 ratings — published 1850
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.22 — 869,868 ratings — published 1862
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,977,148 ratings — published 1937
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.46 — 929,455 ratings — published 2022
The Casual Vacancy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.31 — 340,001 ratings — published 2012
Yesteryear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,163,038 ratings — published 2026
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,033,340 ratings — published 1890
Atlas Shrugged (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.69 — 413,323 ratings — published 1957
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.20 — 799,260 ratings — published 1962
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,925,120 ratings — published 2022
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.00 — 796,979 ratings — published 1962
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.14 — 834,944 ratings — published 2010
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.99 — 908,722 ratings — published 1961
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.17 — 42,244 ratings — published 1985
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 — 174,878 ratings — published 2018
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.18 — 668,108 ratings — published 1996
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.77 — 591,465 ratings — published 2019
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.85 — 926,210 ratings — published 2005
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.66 — 417,411 ratings — published 2016
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.62 — 274,441 ratings — published 2014
Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,038,011 ratings — published 1818
“In one breath, you fear the government getting involved with unions, welfare, or immigration laws all, in essence, aimed at helping our poor fellow Americanyet, in another breath, you look for tariffs and even subsidies.”
― The Arnolfini Art Mysteries
― The Arnolfini Art Mysteries
“Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).”
― The Other Side of Life
― The Other Side of Life
