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The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 329 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,039,016 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 — 120,061 ratings — published 2010
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 235 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.47 — 117,779 ratings — published 2016
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 225 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.40 — 374,958 ratings — published 2015
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 202 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.62 — 270,735 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 — 174,129 ratings — published 2018
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 175 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.52 — 167,133 ratings — published 2020
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 170 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,645 ratings — published 2018
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 160 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,828 ratings — published 2019
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,085,328 ratings — published 1960
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 148 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.39 — 339,923 ratings — published 2012
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 148 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,720 ratings — published 2001
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 138 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.83 — 513,502 ratings — published 2016
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 134 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.27 — 66,571 ratings — published 2023
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 127 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,539,418 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 — 180,129 ratings — published 2019
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.13 — 824,911 ratings — published 2010
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,772,669 ratings — published 1945
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.53 — 39,228 ratings — published 2016
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.43 — 48,189 ratings — published 2017
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,713,457 ratings — published 1949
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.35 — 65,851 ratings — published 2020
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.05 — 642,635 ratings — published 1999
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.37 — 102,038 ratings — published 2017
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.48 — 840,641 ratings — published 2016
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,084,294 ratings — published 2009
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.11 — 879,974 ratings — published 2020
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.46 — 55,131 ratings — published 2020
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,035,776 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 — 636,866 ratings — published 2012
Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1)
by (shelved 77 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.32 — 86,939 ratings — published 2017
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 77 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.55 — 128,880 ratings — published 1963
Know My Name (ebook)
by (shelved 76 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.67 — 272,196 ratings — published 2019
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 — 37,407 ratings — published 2015
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.34 — 27,532 ratings — published 1997
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,955,394 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 — 121,497 ratings — published 2010
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.77 — 587,605 ratings — published 2019
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.37 — 74,192 ratings — published 2018
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.46 — 15,084 ratings — published 2016
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 769,926 ratings — published 1982
All American Boys (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 51,285 ratings — published 2015
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.83 — 90,103 ratings — published 2014
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.59 — 36,413 ratings — published 1981
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.02 — 51,458 ratings — published 2017
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.56 — 73,887 ratings — published 2025
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,882,978 ratings — published 2022
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.91 — 120,870 ratings — published 2014
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.98 — 119,045 ratings — published 2012
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.79 — 126,029 ratings — published 2021
“Why, oh why doth people gazeth into their damn'd phones in a restaurant when there is good fayre and wond'rful company to be enjoy'd?”
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“And, what's more, this 'precious' body, the very same that is hooted and honked at, demeaned both in daily life as well as in ever existing form of media, harrassed, molested, raped, and, if all that wasn't enough, is forever poked and prodded and weighed and constantly wrong for eating too much, eating too little, a million details which all point to the solitary girl, to EVERY solitary girl, and say: Destroy yourself.”
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
