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The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 328 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,026,896 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 — 118,962 ratings — published 2010
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 235 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.47 — 116,141 ratings — published 2016
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 226 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.40 — 371,673 ratings — published 2015
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 202 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.62 — 267,059 ratings — published 2014
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 185 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.16 — 173,326 ratings — published 2018
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 174 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.52 — 164,912 ratings — published 2020
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 171 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,302 ratings — published 2018
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 159 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,260 ratings — published 2019
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,994,987 ratings — published 1960
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 149 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,212 ratings — published 2001
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 146 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.39 — 336,144 ratings — published 2012
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 137 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.83 — 509,623 ratings — published 2016
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 131 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.27 — 64,739 ratings — published 2023
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,488,065 ratings — published 1985
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.33 — 175,438 ratings — published 2019
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.13 — 816,371 ratings — published 2010
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.53 — 38,882 ratings — published 2016
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.35 — 64,833 ratings — published 2020
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 — 47,251 ratings — published 2017
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,670,199 ratings — published 1945
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.05 — 637,207 ratings — published 1999
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,604,061 ratings — published 1948
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.37 — 101,590 ratings — published 2017
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.49 — 824,724 ratings — published 2016
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,054,914 ratings — published 2009
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.12 — 870,643 ratings — published 2020
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.46 — 54,868 ratings — published 2020
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,030,780 ratings — published 2007
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.16 — 631,120 ratings — published 2012
Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1)
by (shelved 77 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.33 — 86,389 ratings — published 2017
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 77 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.55 — 125,757 ratings — published 1963
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.44 — 36,797 ratings — published 2015
Know My Name (ebook)
by (shelved 75 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.68 — 266,002 ratings — published 2019
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.34 — 27,378 ratings — published 1997
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.77 — 583,071 ratings — published 2019
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,912,895 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 — 119,534 ratings — published 2010
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.37 — 73,909 ratings — published 2018
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.46 — 14,959 ratings — published 2016
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 762,436 ratings — published 1982
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.82 — 89,081 ratings — published 2014
All American Boys (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 50,825 ratings — published 2015
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.59 — 35,572 ratings — published 1981
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.02 — 51,105 ratings — published 2017
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.92 — 120,066 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 — 118,102 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 — 55,792 ratings — published 2008
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,838,904 ratings — published 2022
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.80 — 122,557 ratings — published 2021
“Any rational thinking person who believes people are entitled to their opinions should not be angry when they express one.”
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“People, people, people — an ocean of people, but I can't find even a drop of humanity.”
― The Weight of Tender Things
― The Weight of Tender Things
