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The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 334 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,014,970 ratings — published 2017
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 257 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.52 — 117,593 ratings — published 2010
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 235 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.47 — 114,388 ratings — published 2016
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 226 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.40 — 367,593 ratings — published 2015
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 199 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.62 — 262,807 ratings — published 2014
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 184 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.16 — 172,390 ratings — published 2018
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 173 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.52 — 162,130 ratings — published 2020
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 173 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.48 — 107,894 ratings — published 2018
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 161 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,583 ratings — published 2019
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,910,217 ratings — published 1960
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 149 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.39 — 331,693 ratings — published 2012
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 149 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.65 — 195,645 ratings — published 2001
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.84 — 505,729 ratings — published 2016
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 130 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.27 — 62,244 ratings — published 2023
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,437,352 ratings — published 1985
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.34 — 169,804 ratings — published 2019
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.13 — 806,970 ratings — published 2010
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.36 — 63,514 ratings — published 2020
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.53 — 38,507 ratings — published 2016
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.05 — 632,778 ratings — published 1999
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.44 — 46,247 ratings — published 2017
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,578,049 ratings — published 1945
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.37 — 101,087 ratings — published 2017
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,493,564 ratings — published 1948
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.49 — 810,456 ratings — published 2016
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,029,327 ratings — published 2009
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,026,221 ratings — published 2007
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.12 — 858,466 ratings — published 2020
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.46 — 54,392 ratings — published 2020
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.16 — 625,155 ratings — published 2012
Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1)
by (shelved 78 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.33 — 85,638 ratings — published 2017
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 77 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.55 — 122,097 ratings — published 1963
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.77 — 577,743 ratings — published 2019
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.44 — 35,904 ratings — published 2015
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.34 — 27,192 ratings — published 1997
Know My Name (ebook)
by (shelved 74 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.68 — 259,482 ratings — published 2019
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,871,477 ratings — published 2018
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.48 — 117,407 ratings — published 2010
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.37 — 73,460 ratings — published 2018
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.47 — 14,819 ratings — published 2016
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 754,299 ratings — published 1982
All American Boys (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.29 — 50,227 ratings — published 2015
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.59 — 34,704 ratings — published 1981
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.83 — 87,881 ratings — published 2014
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.02 — 50,722 ratings — published 2017
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.92 — 119,050 ratings — published 2014
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 55,688 ratings — published 2008
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.80 — 118,618 ratings — published 2021
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.98 — 116,992 ratings — published 2012
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,795,548 ratings — published 2022
“The Reluctant Guest by Stewart Stafford
My hand extended
to an off-the-grid stray;
Yet, still he scowls,
And smacks it away.
Near-gone from the world,
His blindfold horizon quails,
That veteran heart stiffens,
As frozen asphalt exhales.
A ghost at his own funeral,
Thwarting hopes of a life—
Institutionalised in cement,
A fold in warm cardboard strife.
Frontal assault to backdoor pivot:
Dinner in his mother’s memory.
A toothless grin at my tactic,
A bridge to nourishing festivity.
© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
My hand extended
to an off-the-grid stray;
Yet, still he scowls,
And smacks it away.
Near-gone from the world,
His blindfold horizon quails,
That veteran heart stiffens,
As frozen asphalt exhales.
A ghost at his own funeral,
Thwarting hopes of a life—
Institutionalised in cement,
A fold in warm cardboard strife.
Frontal assault to backdoor pivot:
Dinner in his mother’s memory.
A toothless grin at my tactic,
A bridge to nourishing festivity.
© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
“childhood is not for sell, children are not content”
― The Silent Crisis
― The Silent Crisis
