Societal Books
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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as societal)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,502,199 ratings — published 1948
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as societal)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,270,217 ratings — published 2011
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as societal)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,585,203 ratings — published 1945
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as societal)
avg rating 4.04 — 459,487 ratings — published 1997
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as societal)
avg rating 4.19 — 870,098 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 — 476,517 ratings — published 2012
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as societal)
avg rating 4.01 — 899,443 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 — 117,694 ratings — published 2010
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as societal)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,086,994 ratings — published 1932
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as societal)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,960,495 ratings — published 2008
The War on the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as societal)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,625 ratings — published 2022
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as societal)
avg rating 4.34 — 170,290 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 4.36 — 202,496 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 — 625,568 ratings — published 2012
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as societal)
avg rating 4.40 — 368,024 ratings — published 2015
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as societal)
avg rating 3.84 — 506,054 ratings — published 2016
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as societal)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,857,128 ratings — published 1953
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as societal)
avg rating 3.84 — 384,675 ratings — published 1532
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as societal)
avg rating 3.93 — 42,280 ratings — published 2025
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as societal)
avg rating 4.44 — 35,983 ratings — published 2015
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as societal)
avg rating 3.85 — 861,154 ratings — published 2005
Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as societal)
avg rating 3.98 — 37,850 ratings — published 2024
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as societal)
avg rating 4.27 — 62,444 ratings — published 2023
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as societal)
avg rating 3.80 — 118,909 ratings — published 2021
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as societal)
avg rating 4.52 — 162,377 ratings — published 2020
Humankind: A Hopeful History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as societal)
avg rating 4.32 — 80,762 ratings — published 2019
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as societal)
avg rating 3.90 — 17,816 ratings — published 2020
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as societal)
avg rating 4.39 — 332,015 ratings — published 2012
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as societal)
avg rating 4.03 — 30,062 ratings — published 1962
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as societal)
avg rating 3.85 — 21,082 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 — 4,953 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 — 338,008 ratings — published 2019
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as societal)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,441,447 ratings — published 1985
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as societal)
avg rating 4.19 — 66,421 ratings — published 2012
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as societal)
avg rating 4.37 — 885,500 ratings — published 1946
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as societal)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,015,956 ratings — published 2017
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as societal)
avg rating 4.02 — 49,680 ratings — published 2016
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as societal)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,178,697 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 — 24,515 ratings — published 2011
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as societal)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,676 ratings — published 2010
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as societal)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,820,294 ratings — published 1993
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as societal)
avg rating 3.85 — 9,209 ratings — published 2000
All About Love: New Visions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as societal)
avg rating 4.01 — 138,185 ratings — published 1999
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as societal)
avg rating 4.60 — 45,167 ratings — published 2025
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as societal)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,048,671 ratings — published 2023
Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as societal)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,510 ratings — published 2022
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as societal)
avg rating 4.25 — 41,540 ratings — published 2020
Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as societal)
avg rating 4.33 — 11,384 ratings — published 2018
The Century of the Child (Family in America Series)
by (shelved 2 times as societal)
avg rating 3.62 — 47 ratings — published
“We often blame our government for their lack of responsibility, socially and politically. We forget that that is only a result of the societal irresponsibility in general.”
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