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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as world-issues)
avg rating 3.66 — 359,405 ratings — published 2006
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,040,261 ratings — published 2017
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.16 — 637,565 ratings — published 2012
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 55,907 ratings — published 2008
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.40 — 375,290 ratings — published 2015
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.48 — 842,614 ratings — published 2016
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.18 — 123,960 ratings — published 2015
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.27 — 25,095 ratings — published 2011
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as world-issues)
avg rating 3.98 — 119,144 ratings — published 2012
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.32 — 289,104 ratings — published 2025
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.36 — 286,631 ratings — published 2011
Salt to the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.35 — 269,177 ratings — published 2016
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,216 ratings — published 2018
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.52 — 167,379 ratings — published 2020
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.27 — 65,246 ratings — published 2019
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,320,838 ratings — published 2011
Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness (Ordinary Terrible Things)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,504 ratings — published 2020
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,960,528 ratings — published 2018
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.47 — 117,951 ratings — published 2016
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.00 — 143,858 ratings — published 2015
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.62 — 271,165 ratings — published 2014
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 3.71 — 13,975 ratings — published 2008
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.46 — 104,466 ratings — published 2009
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 770,778 ratings — published 1982
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.01 — 73,458 ratings — published 2012
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.06 — 57,012 ratings — published 1962
Infidel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.20 — 93,512 ratings — published 2006
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,315,010 ratings — published 1947
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.01 — 909,884 ratings — published 2005
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,095,906 ratings — published 1960
The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, The Accident (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 5,721 ratings — published 1961
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,090,561 ratings — published 2020
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,060,517 ratings — published 2014
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,808,561 ratings — published 2007
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,001,445 ratings — published 2006
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.18 — 27,053 ratings — published 2021
The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.08 — 9,383 ratings — published 2021
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.49 — 39,009 ratings — published 2020
I Must Betray You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.39 — 107,054 ratings — published 2022
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.33 — 44,729 ratings — published 2019
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,675 ratings — published 2018
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.46 — 55,153 ratings — published 2020
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,351,281 ratings — published 2015
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.15 — 543,283 ratings — published 2018
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.35 — 65,944 ratings — published 2020
American Dirt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.36 — 720,941 ratings — published 2020
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.00 — 343,664 ratings — published 2019
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.33 — 306,424 ratings — published 2014
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.39 — 340,419 ratings — published 2012
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as world-issues)
avg rating 4.22 — 15,155 ratings — published 2019
“I’d been feeling like this for a while; the continual looking back the stuckness of it all. I blamed it on the coming new year only 4 1/2 months away when the clocks would read zero and we would start again, could start again, but I knew we wouldn’t. Nothing would. The world would be the same, just a little bit worse.”
― When God Was a Rabbit
― When God Was a Rabbit
“It might be depressing, but it's also the truth that no one has the power, the money, or the resources to save everyone on the planet from going hungry, living in poverty or allowed basic human rights. But consider the other side of this: there are people in this world who truly WOULD do all of these things for everyone if only they could. There is hope after all.”
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