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Societal Books
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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as societal)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,618,593 ratings — published 1948
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as societal)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,296,218 ratings — published 2011
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as societal)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,683,117 ratings — published 1945
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as societal)
avg rating 4.04 — 465,554 ratings — published 1997
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as societal)
avg rating 4.19 — 879,390 ratings — published 2008
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as societal)
avg rating 4.07 — 480,733 ratings — published 2012
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as societal)
avg rating 4.01 — 904,861 ratings — published 2005
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as societal)
avg rating 4.52 — 119,109 ratings — published 2010
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as societal)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,116,448 ratings — published 1932
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as societal)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,101,473 ratings — published 2008
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as societal)
avg rating 4.27 — 65,026 ratings — published 2023
The War on the West: An Instant NYT Bestselling History of the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as societal)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,835 ratings — published 2022
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as societal)
avg rating 4.33 — 176,142 ratings — published 2019
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as societal)
avg rating 4.35 — 204,510 ratings — published 2018
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as societal)
avg rating 4.16 — 631,874 ratings — published 2012
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as societal)
avg rating 4.40 — 372,176 ratings — published 2015
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as societal)
avg rating 3.83 — 510,110 ratings — published 2016
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as societal)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,916,072 ratings — published 1953
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as societal)
avg rating 3.84 — 390,706 ratings — published 1532
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as societal)
avg rating 3.90 — 49,833 ratings — published 2025
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as societal)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,103,702 ratings — published 2023
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as societal)
avg rating 4.44 — 36,887 ratings — published 2015
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as societal)
avg rating 3.85 — 884,801 ratings — published 2005
Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as societal)
avg rating 3.97 — 40,349 ratings — published 2024
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as societal)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,912,620 ratings — published 1813
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as societal)
avg rating 3.80 — 123,090 ratings — published 2021
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as societal)
avg rating 4.52 — 165,246 ratings — published 2020
Humankind: A Hopeful History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as societal)
avg rating 4.32 — 83,212 ratings — published 2019
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as societal)
avg rating 3.89 — 18,186 ratings — published 2020
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as societal)
avg rating 4.39 — 336,714 ratings — published 2012
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as societal)
avg rating 4.02 — 30,605 ratings — published 1962
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as societal)
avg rating 3.85 — 21,407 ratings — published 2014
Civilized to Death: What Was Lost on the Way to Modernity (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as societal)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,042 ratings — published 2018
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as societal)
avg rating 4.00 — 341,040 ratings — published 2019
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as societal)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,494,985 ratings — published 1985
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as societal)
avg rating 4.15 — 180,205 ratings — published 2018
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as societal)
avg rating 4.19 — 67,743 ratings — published 2012
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as societal)
avg rating 4.37 — 909,628 ratings — published 1946
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as societal)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,028,459 ratings — published 2017
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as societal)
avg rating 4.02 — 50,344 ratings — published 2016
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as societal)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,248,896 ratings — published 2009
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as societal)
avg rating 4.27 — 24,824 ratings — published 2011
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as societal)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,854 ratings — published 2010
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as societal)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,856,449 ratings — published 1993
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as societal)
avg rating 3.85 — 9,450 ratings — published 2000
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as societal)
avg rating 4.12 — 124,071 ratings — published 2025
All About Love: New Visions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as societal)
avg rating 4.00 — 145,195 ratings — published 1999
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as societal)
avg rating 4.58 — 62,654 ratings — published 2025
The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as societal)
avg rating 4.27 — 9,175 ratings — published 2022
“A woman can never be too rich or too thin or too young, truly.”
― Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
― Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
“Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age.”
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