Social Change Book Recommendations
6. 
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by:
Marjane Satrapi
4.27 avg rating β 224,929 ratings 7. 
8. 
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 4.52 avg rating β 115,043 ratings
11. 
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
by:
Ibram X. Kendi
4.53 avg rating β 37,882 ratings 
14. 
Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town
by:
Brian Alexander
3.91 avg rating β 1,852 ratings 15. 
Don't Label Me: An Incredible Conversation for Divided Times
by:
Irshad Manji
3.68 avg rating β 633 ratings 16. 
Justice Is Coming: How Progressives Are Going to Take Over the Country and America Is Going to Love It
by:
Cenk Uygur
4.25 avg rating β 417 ratings 
18. 
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
by:
Matthew Desmond
4.47 avg rating β 109,940 ratings 19. 
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
by:
J.D. Vance
3.85 avg rating β 488,805 ratings 20. 
Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People
by:
Thomas Frank
4.18 avg rating β 5,231 ratings 21. 
Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
by:
Rebecca Solnit
3.98 avg rating β 11,386 ratings 
25. 
The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
by:
Catherine Nixey
4.07 avg rating β 6,286 ratings 25. 
For the Love of Men: A New Vision for Mindful Masculinity
by:
Liz Plank
4.28 avg rating β 7,282 ratings 
29. 
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
by:
Firoozeh Dumas
3.84 avg rating β 27,112 ratings 
30. 
The Muslim Next Door: The QurΚΌan, the Media, and That Veil Thing 3.73 avg rating β 474 ratings
33. 
We Gon' Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation
by:
Jeff Chang
4.26 avg rating β 2,005 ratings 33. 
Black Girl Dangerous on Race, Queerness, Class and Gender
by:
Mia McKenzie
4.43 avg rating β 580 ratings 
36. 
Scapegoats: How Islamophobia Helps Our Enemies and Threatens Our Freedoms
by:
Arsalan Iftikhar
4.06 avg rating β 147 ratings 36. 
When We Fight, We Win: Twenty-First-Century Social Movements and the Activists That Are Transforming Our World
by:
Greg Jobin-Leeds
4.09 avg rating β 209 ratings 38. 
The Middle Of Everywhere: Helping Refugees Enter the American Community
by:
Mary Pipher
4.08 avg rating β 1,152 ratings 
40. 
Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America
by:
Helen Thorpe
3.86 avg rating β 2,257 ratings 41. 
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
by:
Jon Krakauer
4.12 avg rating β 57,730 ratings 41. 
I Speak for Myself: American Women on Being Muslim (I SPEAK FOR MYSELF, 1) 3.82 avg rating β 254 ratings
44. 
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
by:
Naomi Klein
4.16 avg rating β 27,260 ratings 
46. 
We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler
by:
Russell Freedman
4.26 avg rating β 1,935 ratings 46. 
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color 4.52 avg rating β 9,683 ratings
48. 
Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America
by:
Juan GonzΓ‘lez
4.23 avg rating β 1,870 ratings 49. 
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
by:
Angela Y. Davis
4.44 avg rating β 33,944 ratings 50. 
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
by:
Nancy Isenberg
3.76 avg rating β 24,555 ratings 51. 
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
by:
Jane Mayer
4.31 avg rating β 26,726 ratings 52. 
Beyond Outrage: What has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy, and how to fix it
by:
Robert B. Reich
4.07 avg rating β 2,130 ratings 
54. 
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race
by:
Jesmyn Ward
4.35 avg rating β 9,412 ratings 55. 
Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education 4.35 avg rating β 2,399 ratings