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1984 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 5,806,832 ratings — published 1949
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as social-critique)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,164,897 ratings — published 1932
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as social-critique)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,172,100 ratings — published 1925
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as social-critique)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,845,626 ratings — published 1945
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as social-critique)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,153,432 ratings — published 1960
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as social-critique)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,579,874 ratings — published 1985
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as social-critique)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,012,548 ratings — published 1963
All About Love: New Visions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as social-critique)
avg rating 3.99 — 156,051 ratings — published 1999
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as social-critique)
avg rating 4.30 — 5,038,244 ratings — published 1813
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as social-critique)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,331,261 ratings — published 2008
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as social-critique)
avg rating 3.77 — 492,644 ratings — published 2017
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as social-critique)
avg rating 4.33 — 184,342 ratings — published 2019
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as social-critique)
avg rating 4.17 — 42,021 ratings — published 1985
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 5 times as social-critique)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,899,060 ratings — published 2010
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as social-critique)
avg rating 4.00 — 795,578 ratings — published 1962
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as social-critique)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,186,334 ratings — published 2023
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as social-critique)
avg rating 4.05 — 108,130 ratings — published 1940
Why We're Polarized (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as social-critique)
avg rating 4.20 — 20,825 ratings — published 2020
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as social-critique)
avg rating 3.82 — 90,904 ratings — published 2014
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as social-critique)
avg rating 4.40 — 377,602 ratings — published 2015
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as social-critique)
avg rating 4.35 — 35,329 ratings — published 1961
The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as social-critique)
avg rating 4.09 — 240,006 ratings — published 1969
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as social-critique)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,546,414 ratings — published 1942
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as social-critique)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,361,525 ratings — published 2009
Humankind: A Hopeful History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-critique)
avg rating 4.31 — 86,666 ratings — published 2019
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as social-critique)
avg rating 4.18 — 89,663 ratings — published 1968
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-critique)
avg rating 4.01 — 80,186 ratings — published 2019
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 3 times as social-critique)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,728 ratings — published 2018
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as social-critique)
avg rating 3.91 — 121,447 ratings — published 2014
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-critique)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,967 ratings — published 2018
Oliver Twist (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as social-critique)
avg rating 3.88 — 439,517 ratings — published 1838
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as social-critique)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,023,629 ratings — published 1890
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as social-critique)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,969,000 ratings — published 1937
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as social-critique)
avg rating 4.19 — 367,572 ratings — published 1995
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as social-critique)
avg rating 4.39 — 343,346 ratings — published 2012
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as social-critique)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,331,775 ratings — published 1954
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as social-critique)
avg rating 4.55 — 131,494 ratings — published 1963
The Decline of the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as social-critique)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,370 ratings — published 1918
The Time Machine (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 583,455 ratings — published 1895
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as social-critique)
avg rating 3.93 — 426,732 ratings — published 1925
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 3 times as social-critique)
avg rating 3.66 — 197,037 ratings — published 2001
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-critique)
avg rating 4.31 — 56,742 ratings — published 2007
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as social-critique)
avg rating 4.09 — 275,549 ratings — published 1980
Sense and Sensibility (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 1,352,514 ratings — published 1811
The Giver (Giver, #1)
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avg rating 4.12 — 2,916,006 ratings — published 1993
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as social-critique)
avg rating 4.00 — 296,342 ratings — published 2003
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-critique)
avg rating 4.52 — 169,508 ratings — published 2020
The Country of the Blind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-critique)
avg rating 3.82 — 11,200 ratings — published 1904
82년생 김지영 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-critique)
avg rating 4.16 — 202,934 ratings — published 2016
Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 2,573 ratings — published 2024
“Yet women weren't always the angles of the house, and angels weren’t always benevolent... we like to forget that men imprisoned women in the house and expected gratitude in return.”
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“The fact is that the average man’s love of liberty is nine tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice, and truth… Liberty is not a thing for the great masses of men. It is the exclusive possession of a small and disreputable minority, like knowledge, courage and honor. It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty—and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies”
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