Best Books of People Trying to Save the World

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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World 4.20 avg rating — 87,495 ratings
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time 3.66 avg rating — 358,692 ratings
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Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty 4.12 avg rating — 10,336 ratings
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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide 4.28 avg rating — 55,461 ratings
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Long Walk to Freedom
Long Walk to Freedom 4.36 avg rating — 92,335 ratings
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Silent Spring
Silent Spring 4.05 avg rating — 53,321 ratings
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An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-first Century
An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-first Century 4.33 avg rating — 2,248 ratings
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Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal
Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal 4.26 avg rating — 23,240 ratings
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To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird 4.26 avg rating — 6,689,480 ratings
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Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children
by: John Wood
4.10 avg rating — 4,645 ratings
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Out of My Life and Thought
Out of My Life and Thought 3.97 avg rating — 460 ratings
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An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life
An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life 4.15 avg rating — 9,239 ratings
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Hope in Hell: Inside the World of Doctors Without Borders
Hope in Hell: Inside the World of Doctors Without Borders 4.04 avg rating — 1,209 ratings
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Night
Night 4.38 avg rating — 1,334,287 ratings
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Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference
Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference 4.18 avg rating — 7,712 ratings
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The Fluoride Deception
The Fluoride Deception 4.19 avg rating — 264 ratings
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Buck: A Memoir
Buck: A Memoir 4.05 avg rating — 3,060 ratings
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Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador
Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador 3.97 avg rating — 1,785 ratings
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Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town
Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town 3.84 avg rating — 8,339 ratings
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End the Fed
End the Fed
by: Ron Paul
4.06 avg rating — 6,407 ratings
21.
Cutting for Stone
Cutting for Stone 4.33 avg rating — 417,406 ratings
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The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine
The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine 4.20 avg rating — 8,709 ratings
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Kofi Annan: A Man of Peace in a World of War
Kofi Annan: A Man of Peace in a World of War 3.76 avg rating — 161 ratings
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The Help
The Help 4.47 avg rating — 2,962,298 ratings
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 568,987 ratings
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The Price of my Soul
The Price of my Soul 4.25 avg rating — 402 ratings
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I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World
I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World 4.50 avg rating — 1,690 ratings
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In the Shadow of "Just Wars": Violence, Politics and Humanitarian Action
In the Shadow of "Just Wars": Violence, Politics and Humanitarian Action 3.79 avg rating — 38 ratings
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The Glass Castle
The Glass Castle 4.32 avg rating — 1,325,727 ratings
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An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
by: Al Gore
3.78 avg rating — 6,948 ratings
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The Revolution: A Manifesto
The Revolution: A Manifesto
by: Ron Paul
4.13 avg rating — 7,739 ratings
32.
Ethics for the New Millennium
Ethics for the New Millennium 4.08 avg rating — 4,480 ratings
32.
The Art of Happiness
The Art of Happiness 4.17 avg rating — 123,037 ratings
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Elusive Peace: Negotiating an End to Civil Wars
Elusive Peace: Negotiating an End to Civil Wars 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Dunant's Dream: War, Switzerland and the History of the Red Cross
Dunant's Dream: War, Switzerland and the History of the Red Cross 3.80 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Writing to Change the World
Writing to Change the World 3.97 avg rating — 975 ratings
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"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide 4.26 avg rating — 10,878 ratings
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World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird
World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird
by: Amit Ray
4.59 avg rating — 127 ratings
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Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help
Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help 3.91 avg rating — 2,864 ratings
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The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto
by: Karl Marx
3.67 avg rating — 189,271 ratings
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Race Against Time: Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa
Race Against Time: Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa 4.10 avg rating — 1,259 ratings
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We Are Not Afraid: The Story of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney, and the Civil Rights Campaign for Mississippi
We Are Not Afraid: The Story of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney, and the Civil Rights Campaign for Mississippi 4.49 avg rating — 162 ratings
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Evangelii Gaudium: The Joy of the Gospel
Evangelii Gaudium: The Joy of the Gospel 4.44 avg rating — 2,522 ratings
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Animal Farm
Animal Farm 4.01 avg rating — 4,356,918 ratings
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Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War
Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War 4.16 avg rating — 4,306 ratings
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 3.65 avg rating — 194,441 ratings
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Chasing the Flame: One Man's Fight to Save the World
Chasing the Flame: One Man's Fight to Save the World 4.35 avg rating — 1,673 ratings
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Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid
Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid 3.92 avg rating — 4,958 ratings
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Memoirs
Memoirs 3.72 avg rating — 187 ratings
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Giving
Giving 3.45 avg rating — 3,030 ratings
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God Has a Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Time
God Has a Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Time 4.24 avg rating — 920 ratings
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The Last Lecture
The Last Lecture 4.26 avg rating — 359,330 ratings
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Unbowed
Unbowed 4.07 avg rating — 6,929 ratings
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The Enough Moment: Fighting to End Africa's Worst Human Rights Crimes
The Enough Moment: Fighting to End Africa's Worst Human Rights Crimes 3.69 avg rating — 140 ratings
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The Holy Bible: King James Version
The Holy Bible: King James Version
by: Anonymous
4.44 avg rating — 308,880 ratings
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Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism 4.26 avg rating — 9,469 ratings
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The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride, #1)
The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride, #1) 4.07 avg rating — 231,971 ratings
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The Hundred-Year Lie: How to Protect Yourself from the Chemicals That Are Destroying Your Health
The Hundred-Year Lie: How to Protect Yourself from the Chemicals That Are Destroying Your Health 4.04 avg rating — 617 ratings
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I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban 4.16 avg rating — 612,724 ratings
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Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond
Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond 3.91 avg rating — 1,337 ratings
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Shake Hands with the Devil
Shake Hands with the Devil 4.24 avg rating — 13,605 ratings
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Freedom From Want: The Remarkable Success Story of BRAC, the Global Grassroots Organization That's Winning the Fight Against Poverty
Freedom From Want: The Remarkable Success Story of BRAC, the Global Grassroots Organization That's Winning the Fight Against Poverty 3.91 avg rating — 67 ratings
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope 4.07 avg rating — 31,882 ratings
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Breakthrough International Negotiation: How Great Negotiators Transformed the World's Toughest Post-Cold War Conflicts
Breakthrough International Negotiation: How Great Negotiators Transformed the World's Toughest Post-Cold War Conflicts 3.75 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World
Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World 3.28 avg rating — 538 ratings
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For Humanity: Reflections of a War Crimes Investigator (Castle Lectures Series)
For Humanity: Reflections of a War Crimes Investigator (Castle Lectures Series) 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Man Who Fed the World: Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
The Man Who Fed the World: Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 3.83 avg rating — 504 ratings
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The Constant Gardener
The Constant Gardener 3.83 avg rating — 30,212 ratings
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The Confessions of Nat Turner
The Confessions of Nat Turner 3.96 avg rating — 15,966 ratings
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Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit
Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit
by: Al Gore
3.80 avg rating — 1,487 ratings
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The State and Revolution
The State and Revolution 4.25 avg rating — 17,446 ratings
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Mother Theresa
Mother Theresa 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam
The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam 4.06 avg rating — 5,076 ratings
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People of the Book
People of the Book 4.04 avg rating — 153,739 ratings
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The Second Sex
The Second Sex 4.18 avg rating — 45,866 ratings
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The Souls of Black Folk
The Souls of Black Folk 4.31 avg rating — 44,287 ratings
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Sophie Scholl and the White Rose
Sophie Scholl and the White Rose 4.19 avg rating — 1,644 ratings
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
by: Loung Ung
4.35 avg rating — 52,427 ratings
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War Crimes and the Culture of Peace
War Crimes and the Culture of Peace 3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Ocean World
The Ocean World 4.50 avg rating — 260 ratings
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The Jungle
The Jungle 3.78 avg rating — 152,237 ratings
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Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific 4.24 avg rating — 8,240 ratings
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Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist
Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist 3.90 avg rating — 244 ratings
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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State 4.13 avg rating — 7,492 ratings
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True Competition: A Guide to Pursuing Excellence in Sport and Society
True Competition: A Guide to Pursuing Excellence in Sport and Society 3.90 avg rating — 30 ratings
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What's the Worst That Could Happen?: A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate
What's the Worst That Could Happen?: A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate 3.81 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Dance Lest We All Fall Down: A Journey of Friendship, Poverty, Power and Peace
Dance Lest We All Fall Down: A Journey of Friendship, Poverty, Power and Peace 4.11 avg rating — 114 ratings
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Doing Max Vinyl (Annie Ogden, #1)
Doing Max Vinyl (Annie Ogden, #1) 3.76 avg rating — 1,397 ratings
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The Crooked God Machine
The Crooked God Machine 3.87 avg rating — 491 ratings
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The Great Collapse (Survivors of the Pulse, #1)
The Great Collapse (Survivors of the Pulse, #1) 3.88 avg rating — 126 ratings
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This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor
This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor 4.31 avg rating — 2,406 ratings
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Undeadly (The Reaper Diaries, #1)
Undeadly (The Reaper Diaries, #1) 3.65 avg rating — 2,816 ratings
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Venture: A Collection of True Microfinance Stories
Venture: A Collection of True Microfinance Stories 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change
The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change 4.13 avg rating — 7,888 ratings
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I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity
I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity 4.32 avg rating — 7,402 ratings
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Global: An Extraordinary guide for ordinary heroes
Global: An Extraordinary guide for ordinary heroes 4.43 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Man of the Trees: Richard St. Barbe Baker, the First Global Conservationist
Man of the Trees: Richard St. Barbe Baker, the First Global Conservationist 3.87 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Socialism with Chinese Characteristics. A Guide for Foreigners
Socialism with Chinese Characteristics. A Guide for Foreigners 4.43 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil 3.67 avg rating — 25,606 ratings
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Excitotoxins: The Taste that Kills
Excitotoxins: The Taste that Kills 4.14 avg rating — 383 ratings
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