34 books
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5 voters
Social Commentary Books
Showing 1-50 of 24,745
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 304 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,494,119 ratings — published 1948
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 296 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,578,495 ratings — published 1945
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 186 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,085,021 ratings — published 1932
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 180 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,853,254 ratings — published 1953
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 178 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,437,594 ratings — published 1985
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,910,623 ratings — published 1960
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,940,188 ratings — published 1925
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,211,315 ratings — published 1954
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 108 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,817,990 ratings — published 1993
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,825,958 ratings — published 1813
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,015,024 ratings — published 2017
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 99 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,951,165 ratings — published 2008
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.40 — 367,626 ratings — published 2015
The Jungle (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.78 — 154,980 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 — 505,748 ratings — published 2016
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 78 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.65 — 195,646 ratings — published 2001
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.03 — 997,369 ratings — published 1939
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 71 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,339,079 ratings — published 1885
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,044,797 ratings — published 2023
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.52 — 162,151 ratings — published 2020
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,487,506 ratings — published 1969
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.92 — 202,428 ratings — published 1952
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,029,435 ratings — published 2009
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 63 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,736,271 ratings — published 2010
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.52 — 117,596 ratings — published 2010
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 63 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,174,076 ratings — published 2009
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.47 — 114,390 ratings — published 2016
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.44 — 922,190 ratings — published 1850
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 58 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.75 — 413,907 ratings — published 1958
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.21 — 845,624 ratings — published 1862
The Casual Vacancy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.31 — 337,502 ratings — published 2012
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,891,449 ratings — published 1890
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,847,525 ratings — published 1937
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.99 — 888,495 ratings — published 1961
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.00 — 772,121 ratings — published 1962
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.20 — 781,663 ratings — published 1962
Atlas Shrugged (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.69 — 407,524 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 — 172,389 ratings — published 2018
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.13 — 806,988 ratings — published 2010
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.62 — 262,820 ratings — published 2014
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.77 — 577,759 ratings — published 2019
Oliver Twist (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.88 — 428,920 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 — 38,747 ratings — published 1985
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.85 — 859,736 ratings — published 2005
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.18 — 645,130 ratings — published 1996
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.47 — 805,153 ratings — published 2022
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.67 — 377,065 ratings — published 2016
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 47 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 4.39 — 331,722 ratings — published 2012
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,902,792 ratings — published 1818
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as social-commentary)
avg rating 3.61 — 465,532 ratings — published 1953
“A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.”
― Terminal World
― Terminal World
“I simply refuse to deal with idiots...It has cut my social obligations in half.”
― On the Way to the Wedding
― On the Way to the Wedding












