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The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 331 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,021,074 ratings — published 2017
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 256 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.52 — 118,395 ratings — published 2010
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 236 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.47 — 115,305 ratings — published 2016
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 225 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.40 — 369,947 ratings — published 2015
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 199 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.62 — 265,086 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 — 172,859 ratings — published 2018
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 174 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.52 — 163,686 ratings — published 2020
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 172 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,096 ratings — published 2018
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 160 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,956 ratings — published 2019
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,954,435 ratings — published 1960
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 149 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.39 — 334,022 ratings — published 2012
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 149 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.66 — 195,933 ratings — published 2001
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.83 — 507,876 ratings — published 2016
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 131 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.27 — 63,489 ratings — published 2023
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,464,400 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 — 172,678 ratings — published 2019
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.13 — 811,610 ratings — published 2010
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.53 — 38,712 ratings — published 2016
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.35 — 64,253 ratings — published 2020
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.05 — 635,017 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 — 46,788 ratings — published 2017
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,626,115 ratings — published 1945
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,551,825 ratings — published 1948
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.37 — 101,332 ratings — published 2017
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.49 — 817,811 ratings — published 2016
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,042,388 ratings — published 2009
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,028,404 ratings — published 2007
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.12 — 865,407 ratings — published 2020
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.46 — 54,692 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 82 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.16 — 628,096 ratings — published 2012
Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1)
by (shelved 77 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.33 — 86,056 ratings — published 2017
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 77 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.55 — 124,267 ratings — published 1963
Know My Name (ebook)
by (shelved 75 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.68 — 262,870 ratings — published 2019
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.77 — 580,616 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 — 36,451 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 — 27,293 ratings — published 1997
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,892,634 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 — 118,502 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 — 73,716 ratings — published 2018
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.46 — 14,894 ratings — published 2016
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 758,692 ratings — published 1982
All American Boys (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 50,563 ratings — published 2015
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.82 — 88,493 ratings — published 2014
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.59 — 35,149 ratings — published 1981
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.02 — 50,916 ratings — published 2017
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.92 — 119,511 ratings — published 2014
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.98 — 117,572 ratings — published 2012
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 55,749 ratings — published 2008
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.80 — 120,625 ratings — published 2021
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,818,141 ratings — published 2022
“They had supported him ... for freedom's sake, they would have said; meaning as do all men who mouth that catchword, freedom for themselves and their own class.”
― The Lion of England
― The Lion of England
“Are we unknowingly allowing a society to evolve that is the perfect breeding ground, and perhaps even a “killing field,” for psychopaths?”
― sin conciencia
― sin conciencia












