22 books
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The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as social-issue)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,014,743 ratings — published 2017
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as social-issue)
avg rating 4.48 — 107,892 ratings — published 2018
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as social-issue)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,909,014 ratings — published 1960
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as social-issue)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,491,934 ratings — published 1948
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as social-issue)
avg rating 4.16 — 625,070 ratings — published 2012
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as social-issue)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,504,500 ratings — published 2003
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as social-issue)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,794,873 ratings — published 2022
Know My Name (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as social-issue)
avg rating 4.68 — 259,395 ratings — published 2019
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as social-issue)
avg rating 4.62 — 262,739 ratings — published 2014
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as social-issue)
avg rating 4.12 — 858,243 ratings — published 2020
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as social-issue)
avg rating 4.49 — 810,256 ratings — published 2016
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as social-issue)
avg rating 3.98 — 492,345 ratings — published 1987
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as social-issue)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,436,630 ratings — published 1985
Arrangement in Black and White (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as social-issue)
avg rating 4.35 — 607 ratings — published 2014
Société (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as social-issue)
avg rating 4.26 — 386 ratings — published 2015
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as social-issue)
avg rating 4.36 — 202,326 ratings — published 2018
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as social-issue)
avg rating 4.39 — 331,642 ratings — published 2012
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as social-issue)
avg rating 4.47 — 114,363 ratings — published 2016
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-issue)
avg rating 4.47 — 804,215 ratings — published 2022
The Measure (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-issue)
avg rating 3.97 — 376,931 ratings — published 2022
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-issue)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,317,146 ratings — published 2017
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-issue)
avg rating 4.34 — 169,734 ratings — published 2019
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 3 times as social-issue)
avg rating 4.16 — 172,375 ratings — published 2018
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as social-issue)
avg rating 4.25 — 309,422 ratings — published 2019
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-issue)
avg rating 4.52 — 117,578 ratings — published 2010
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as social-issue)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,645,343 ratings — published 2018
Wonder (Wonder, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as social-issue)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,198,056 ratings — published 2012
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-issue)
avg rating 4.16 — 971,063 ratings — published 2006
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-issue)
avg rating 3.77 — 577,643 ratings — published 2019
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as social-issue)
avg rating 4.28 — 754,171 ratings — published 1982
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-issue)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,870,875 ratings — published 2018
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-issue)
avg rating 4.37 — 101,075 ratings — published 2017
All American Boys (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-issue)
avg rating 4.29 — 50,217 ratings — published 2015
Sadie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-issue)
avg rating 4.03 — 130,759 ratings — published 2018
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue (Montague Siblings, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as social-issue)
avg rating 4.02 — 145,936 ratings — published 2017
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as social-issue)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,205,161 ratings — published 1947
Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as social-issue)
avg rating 4.33 — 85,624 ratings — published 2017
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-issue)
avg rating 4.05 — 632,708 ratings — published 1999
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-issue)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,026,145 ratings — published 2007
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as social-issue)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,948,475 ratings — published 2008
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-issue)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,028,944 ratings — published 2009
Long Bright River (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-issue)
avg rating 4.04 — 192,060 ratings — published 2020
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-issue)
avg rating 4.31 — 182,730 ratings — published 2024
The Answer Is No (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as social-issue)
avg rating 3.91 — 116,924 ratings — published 2024
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-issue)
avg rating 4.16 — 46,436 ratings — published 2024
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-issue)
avg rating 4.35 — 177,794 ratings — published 2021
The Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-issue)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,590,820 ratings — published 2024
Go as a River (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-issue)
avg rating 4.25 — 190,708 ratings — published 2023
Yours Truly (Part of Your World, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as social-issue)
avg rating 4.29 — 834,642 ratings — published 2023
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-issue)
avg rating 4.03 — 997,144 ratings — published 1939
“The holy trinity of tackling a crisis is unity, faith and sacrifice. We must stay united as humans above all else, we must have faith in ourselves and in each other and we must sacrifice our self-obsession.”
― When Call The People: My World My Responsibility
― When Call The People: My World My Responsibility







