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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 309 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,605,866 ratings — published 1948
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 299 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,671,755 ratings — published 1945
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 188 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,113,069 ratings — published 1932
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 183 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,909,512 ratings — published 1953
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 180 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,488,915 ratings — published 1985
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 151 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,022,301 ratings — published 1925
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,996,412 ratings — published 1960
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,252,799 ratings — published 1954
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,903,740 ratings — published 1813
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 109 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,852,371 ratings — published 1993
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 102 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,085,460 ratings — published 2008
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,027,083 ratings — published 2017
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.40 — 371,727 ratings — published 2015
The Jungle (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.78 — 156,247 ratings — published 1906
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 78 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,220 ratings — published 2001
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,097,508 ratings — published 2023
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.83 — 509,691 ratings — published 2016
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,009,103 ratings — published 1939
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 72 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,346,388 ratings — published 1885
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.52 — 164,950 ratings — published 2020
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,055,327 ratings — published 2009
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,503,620 ratings — published 1969
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.92 — 204,447 ratings — published 1952
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.52 — 118,978 ratings — published 2010
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 64 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,240,968 ratings — published 2009
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 63 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,794,564 ratings — published 2010
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.47 — 116,168 ratings — published 2016
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.44 — 930,678 ratings — published 1850
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.75 — 419,286 ratings — published 1958
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.21 — 852,919 ratings — published 1862
The Casual Vacancy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.31 — 338,385 ratings — published 2012
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,888,699 ratings — published 1937
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,936,437 ratings — published 1890
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.20 — 787,839 ratings — published 1962
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.13 — 816,524 ratings — published 2010
Atlas Shrugged (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.69 — 409,536 ratings — published 1957
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.99 — 895,184 ratings — published 1961
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.46 — 846,384 ratings — published 2022
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.00 — 781,315 ratings — published 1962
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 — 173,341 ratings — published 2018
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.18 — 653,161 ratings — published 1996
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,839,537 ratings — published 2022
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.77 — 583,164 ratings — published 2019
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.62 — 267,146 ratings — published 2014
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.85 — 882,186 ratings — published 2005
Oliver Twist (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.88 — 432,705 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 — 40,018 ratings — published 1985
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.67 — 391,060 ratings — published 2016
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 47 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.39 — 336,215 ratings — published 2012
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,948,584 ratings — published 1818
“Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).”
― The Other Side of Life
― The Other Side of Life
“Welcome to Hell. Here's your accordion.”
― The Complete Far Side, 1980–1994
― The Complete Far Side, 1980–1994
