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The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 327 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,048,922 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 — 120,993 ratings — published 2010
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 238 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.47 — 119,184 ratings — published 2016
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 227 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.40 — 378,002 ratings — published 2015
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 206 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.62 — 274,255 ratings — published 2014
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 189 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,846 ratings — published 2018
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 176 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.52 — 169,953 ratings — published 2020
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 170 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.48 — 109,031 ratings — published 2018
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 161 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.36 — 121,298 ratings — published 2019
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,163,593 ratings — published 1960
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 148 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.39 — 343,905 ratings — published 2012
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 148 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.66 — 197,096 ratings — published 2001
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 140 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.83 — 517,108 ratings — published 2016
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.27 — 68,027 ratings — published 2023
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 127 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,585,913 ratings — published 1985
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.33 — 185,396 ratings — published 2019
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.14 — 834,393 ratings — published 2010
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,857,575 ratings — published 1945
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.53 — 39,506 ratings — published 2016
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.43 — 49,135 ratings — published 2017
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.35 — 66,633 ratings — published 2020
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,820,954 ratings — published 1949
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.06 — 647,157 ratings — published 1999
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.48 — 857,062 ratings — published 2016
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.37 — 102,500 ratings — published 2017
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,112,015 ratings — published 2009
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.11 — 889,069 ratings — published 2020
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.46 — 55,331 ratings — published 2020
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,039,919 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 — 642,393 ratings — published 2012
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.55 — 131,957 ratings — published 1963
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.44 — 37,943 ratings — published 2015
Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1)
by (shelved 77 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.32 — 87,406 ratings — published 2017
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.34 — 27,651 ratings — published 1997
Know My Name: A Memoir (ebook)
by (shelved 76 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.67 — 279,112 ratings — published 2019
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,996,827 ratings — published 2018
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.48 — 123,336 ratings — published 2010
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.77 — 591,278 ratings — published 2019
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.46 — 15,177 ratings — published 2016
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 777,038 ratings — published 1982
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.37 — 74,469 ratings — published 2018
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.59 — 37,208 ratings — published 1981
All American Boys (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 51,652 ratings — published 2015
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.82 — 91,023 ratings — published 2014
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.55 — 84,317 ratings — published 2025
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,923,141 ratings — published 2022
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.02 — 51,771 ratings — published 2017
Small Great Things (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 64 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.36 — 465,344 ratings — published 2016
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.91 — 121,511 ratings — published 2014
Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.30 — 35,186 ratings — published 2019
“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
“If a deadly snake slithering around in a pre-school bit a child, would you box it up for a month as punishment, and then release it to prey upon the children once again?”
― When Everything Changed
― When Everything Changed
