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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 307 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,721,784 ratings — published 1949
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 304 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,774,180 ratings — published 1945
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 186 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,142,981 ratings — published 1932
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 184 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,543,012 ratings — published 1985
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,968,862 ratings — published 1963
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,112,973 ratings — published 1925
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,091,662 ratings — published 1960
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,300,573 ratings — published 1954
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,982,741 ratings — published 1813
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 108 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,891,665 ratings — published 1993
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 103 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,230,770 ratings — published 2008
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,039,739 ratings — published 2017
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.40 — 375,150 ratings — published 2015
The Jungle (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.78 — 157,545 ratings — published 1906
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,150,082 ratings — published 2023
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 79 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,744 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 — 513,754 ratings — published 2016
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,022,713 ratings — published 1939
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 73 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,351,523 ratings — published 1885
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.52 — 167,299 ratings — published 2020
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,521,568 ratings — published 1969
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,086,444 ratings — published 2009
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.92 — 206,252 ratings — published 1952
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 65 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,310,116 ratings — published 2009
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 64 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,854,273 ratings — published 2010
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.47 — 117,890 ratings — published 2016
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,138 ratings — published 2010
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.75 — 424,635 ratings — published 1958
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.44 — 939,267 ratings — published 1850
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,935,142 ratings — published 1937
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.46 — 889,534 ratings — published 2022
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.22 — 860,564 ratings — published 1862
The Casual Vacancy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.31 — 339,105 ratings — published 2012
Atlas Shrugged (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.69 — 411,411 ratings — published 1957
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,984,997 ratings — published 1890
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.99 — 902,369 ratings — published 1961
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.00 — 789,729 ratings — published 1962
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.20 — 793,796 ratings — published 1962
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.13 — 825,511 ratings — published 2010
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 — 174,176 ratings — published 2018
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.85 — 905,686 ratings — published 2005
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.18 — 661,583 ratings — published 1996
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.17 — 41,203 ratings — published 1985
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,886,162 ratings — published 2022
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.77 — 587,924 ratings — published 2019
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.62 — 270,998 ratings — published 2014
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,988,702 ratings — published 1818
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.66 — 404,683 ratings — published 2016
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 48 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.39 — 340,245 ratings — published 2012
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.48 — 841,788 ratings — published 2016
“Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?”
― The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
― The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“Self-reflection improves civil discourse by pushing you toward reason.”
― I'm Just Saying: A Guide to Maintaining Civil Discourse in an Increasingly Divided World
― I'm Just Saying: A Guide to Maintaining Civil Discourse in an Increasingly Divided World
