Literature of Social Change

1.
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird 4.26 avg rating — 6,688,809 ratings
2.
1984
1984 4.20 avg rating — 5,226,078 ratings
3.
The Poisonwood Bible
The Poisonwood Bible 4.11 avg rating — 779,768 ratings
4.
The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath 4.02 avg rating — 971,574 ratings
5.
Animal Farm
Animal Farm 4.01 avg rating — 4,356,218 ratings
6.
The Color Purple
The Color Purple 4.27 avg rating — 737,183 ratings
7.
The Help
The Help 4.47 avg rating — 2,962,071 ratings
8.
Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 3.97 avg rating — 2,718,834 ratings
9.
The Jungle
The Jungle 3.78 avg rating — 152,235 ratings
10.
The Crucible
The Crucible 3.61 avg rating — 452,156 ratings
11.
Brave New World
Brave New World 3.99 avg rating — 2,015,625 ratings
12.
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) 3.74 avg rating — 403,086 ratings
13.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 3.83 avg rating — 1,318,908 ratings
14.
All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front 4.10 avg rating — 505,032 ratings
15.
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter 3.44 avg rating — 901,332 ratings
16.
Les Misérables
Les Misérables 4.21 avg rating — 830,219 ratings
17.
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 2,323,072 ratings
18.
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness 3.43 avg rating — 545,727 ratings
19.
Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist 3.88 avg rating — 419,627 ratings
20.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Uncle Tom’s Cabin 3.92 avg rating — 239,362 ratings
21.
Snow Falling on Cedars
Snow Falling on Cedars 3.86 avg rating — 192,455 ratings
22.
The Women's Room
The Women's Room 3.99 avg rating — 9,269 ratings
23.
A Thousand Splendid Suns
A Thousand Splendid Suns 4.45 avg rating — 1,681,650 ratings
24.
Invisible Man
Invisible Man 3.92 avg rating — 198,728 ratings
25.
Cry, the Beloved Country
Cry, the Beloved Country 3.92 avg rating — 78,542 ratings
26.
Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment 4.28 avg rating — 1,024,555 ratings
27.
Gulliver’s Travels
Gulliver’s Travels 3.59 avg rating — 293,917 ratings
28.
Animal Dreams
Animal Dreams 4.08 avg rating — 76,497 ratings
29.
Bastard Out of Carolina
Bastard Out of Carolina 4.14 avg rating — 46,996 ratings
30.
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 476,943 ratings
31.
Brokeback Mountain
Brokeback Mountain 4.02 avg rating — 49,925 ratings
32.
The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto
by: Karl Marx
3.67 avg rating — 189,239 ratings
33.
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina 4.10 avg rating — 906,249 ratings
34.
Silent Spring
Silent Spring 4.05 avg rating — 53,314 ratings
35.
The Metamorphosis
The Metamorphosis 3.90 avg rating — 1,338,294 ratings
36.
A Room of One’s Own
A Room of One’s Own 4.22 avg rating — 246,440 ratings
37.
Catch-22
Catch-22 3.99 avg rating — 873,322 ratings
38.
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood and The Story of a Return
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood and The Story of a Return 4.40 avg rating — 199,563 ratings
39.
Jude the Obscure
Jude the Obscure 3.83 avg rating — 74,822 ratings
40.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by: Malcolm X
4.37 avg rating — 285,175 ratings
41.
A Doll's House
A Doll's House 3.77 avg rating — 159,022 ratings
42.
In the Time of the Butterflies
In the Time of the Butterflies 4.15 avg rating — 77,519 ratings
43.
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol 4.09 avg rating — 896,515 ratings
44.
A Passage to India
A Passage to India 3.68 avg rating — 84,382 ratings
45.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude 4.12 avg rating — 1,069,962 ratings
46.
The Fountainhead
The Fountainhead
by: Ayn Rand
3.89 avg rating — 333,848 ratings
47.
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
by: Dee Brown
4.26 avg rating — 99,680 ratings
48.
Middlesex
Middlesex 4.04 avg rating — 657,096 ratings
49.
Hard Times
Hard Times 3.55 avg rating — 72,192 ratings
49.
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies 3.70 avg rating — 3,117,405 ratings
51.
Utopia
Utopia 3.55 avg rating — 80,684 ratings
52.
The Crying Tree
The Crying Tree 3.87 avg rating — 4,297 ratings
53.
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Tess of the D’Urbervilles 3.84 avg rating — 297,802 ratings
54.
The Tortilla Curtain
The Tortilla Curtain 3.66 avg rating — 34,022 ratings
55.
Bleak House
Bleak House 4.02 avg rating — 112,456 ratings
56.
Mudbound
Mudbound 4.05 avg rating — 69,751 ratings
57.
The Trial
The Trial 3.94 avg rating — 377,295 ratings
58.
Twelve Angry Men
Twelve Angry Men 4.07 avg rating — 36,160 ratings
59.
War and Peace
War and Peace 4.17 avg rating — 356,977 ratings
60.
Little Bee
Little Bee 3.72 avg rating — 247,073 ratings
61.
The House of Mirth
The House of Mirth 3.97 avg rating — 103,536 ratings
62.
The Joy Luck Club
The Joy Luck Club
by: Amy Tan
3.97 avg rating — 703,406 ratings
63.
North and South
North and South 4.15 avg rating — 179,582 ratings
64.
Revolutionary Road
Revolutionary Road 3.93 avg rating — 92,051 ratings
65.
The Road To Wigan Pier: (Authorized Orwell Edition): A Mariner Books Classic
The Road To Wigan Pier: (Authorized Orwell Edition): A Mariner Books Classic 3.91 avg rating — 27,349 ratings
66.
Babbitt
Babbitt 3.69 avg rating — 24,525 ratings
67.
Down and Out in Paris and London
Down and Out in Paris and London 4.09 avg rating — 97,503 ratings
68.
Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men 3.89 avg rating — 2,751,878 ratings
69.
Abolition For The People
Abolition For The People 4.08 avg rating — 299 ratings
70.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre 4.16 avg rating — 2,259,772 ratings
71.
A Streetcar Named Desire
A Streetcar Named Desire 3.98 avg rating — 328,878 ratings
72.
Walden & Civil Disobedience
Walden & Civil Disobedience 3.94 avg rating — 38,623 ratings
73.
My Ántonia
My Ántonia 3.84 avg rating — 144,864 ratings
73.
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary 3.71 avg rating — 363,643 ratings
75.
A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 753,908 ratings
76.
The Ox-Bow Incident
The Ox-Bow Incident 3.87 avg rating — 6,520 ratings
77.
A Lesson Before Dying
A Lesson Before Dying 3.98 avg rating — 63,055 ratings
78.
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 650,950 ratings
79.
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit (Ishmael, #1)
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit (Ishmael, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 102,546 ratings
80.
Great Expectations
Great Expectations 3.80 avg rating — 857,527 ratings
81.
Native Son
Native Son 4.04 avg rating — 103,287 ratings
82.
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
The Caucasian Chalk Circle 3.74 avg rating — 8,975 ratings
83.
Cat’s Eye
Cat’s Eye 3.95 avg rating — 71,398 ratings
84.
Anthem
Anthem
by: Ayn Rand
3.61 avg rating — 164,225 ratings
85.
Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption 4.26 avg rating — 9,220 ratings
86.
The Death of Ivan Ilych
The Death of Ivan Ilych 4.14 avg rating — 205,040 ratings
86.
Atonement
Atonement 3.95 avg rating — 551,968 ratings
88.
Stones from the River (Burgdorf Cycle, #1)
Stones from the River (Burgdorf Cycle, #1) 4.09 avg rating — 96,151 ratings
89.
Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings
Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings 4.14 avg rating — 15,755 ratings
90.
The Girl Who Fell from the Sky
The Girl Who Fell from the Sky 3.61 avg rating — 33,070 ratings
91.
Essays and Lectures
Essays and Lectures 4.31 avg rating — 2,872 ratings
92.
The Lacuna
The Lacuna 3.82 avg rating — 73,037 ratings
93.
Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night 3.96 avg rating — 191,693 ratings
94.
As You Like It
As You Like It 3.81 avg rating — 87,365 ratings
94.
Half of a Yellow Sun
Half of a Yellow Sun 4.34 avg rating — 176,450 ratings
96.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 4.17 avg rating — 56,856 ratings
97.
The Tempest
The Tempest 3.78 avg rating — 222,552 ratings
98.
Cloudsplitter
Cloudsplitter 3.93 avg rating — 5,097 ratings
99.
Little Dorrit
Little Dorrit really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 49,356 ratings
99.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 4.30 avg rating — 499,204 ratings
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