Social Justice: Books on Racism, Sexism, and Class

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To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird 4.26 avg rating — 6,688,942 ratings
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A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present 4.08 avg rating — 259,693 ratings
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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 2,323,143 ratings
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The Color Purple
The Color Purple 4.27 avg rating — 737,196 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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The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl 4.20 avg rating — 4,073,127 ratings
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Animal Farm
Animal Farm 4.01 avg rating — 4,356,353 ratings
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 4.52 avg rating — 115,044 ratings
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by: Malcolm X
4.37 avg rating — 285,183 ratings
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The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath 4.02 avg rating — 971,589 ratings
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The Kite Runner
The Kite Runner 4.35 avg rating — 3,402,065 ratings
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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
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The Help
The Help 4.47 avg rating — 2,962,103 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 — 568,945 ratings
15.
Night
Night 4.38 avg rating — 1,334,210 ratings
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong 3.97 avg rating — 72,722 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 4.13 avg rating — 787,056 ratings
18.
Women, Race & Class
Women, Race & Class 4.59 avg rating — 33,017 ratings
19.
A Thousand Splendid Suns
A Thousand Splendid Suns 4.45 avg rating — 1,681,692 ratings
20.
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism 4.29 avg rating — 51,932 ratings
21.
Black Like Me
Black Like Me 4.11 avg rating — 69,182 ratings
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Letter from the Birmingham Jail
Letter from the Birmingham Jail 4.72 avg rating — 8,438 ratings
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The Jungle
The Jungle 3.78 avg rating — 152,235 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 — 612,703 ratings
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The Fire Next Time
The Fire Next Time 4.55 avg rating — 115,140 ratings
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Middlesex
Middlesex 4.04 avg rating — 657,104 ratings
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Pedagogy of the Oppressed 4.30 avg rating — 37,857 ratings
28.
The Complete Maus
The Complete Maus 4.58 avg rating — 245,660 ratings
29.
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby 3.93 avg rating — 5,731,398 ratings
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A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities 3.88 avg rating — 996,425 ratings
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Roots: The Saga of an American Family 4.45 avg rating — 163,547 ratings
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Race Matters
Race Matters 4.15 avg rating — 11,892 ratings
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Native Son
Native Son 4.04 avg rating — 103,287 ratings
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Just Mercy
Just Mercy 4.63 avg rating — 254,491 ratings
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Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape
Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape 4.20 avg rating — 5,237 ratings
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Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? 4.34 avg rating — 26,842 ratings
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The Souls of Black Folk
The Souls of Black Folk 4.31 avg rating — 44,284 ratings
38.
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools 4.26 avg rating — 18,905 ratings
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1984
1984 4.20 avg rating — 5,226,279 ratings
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Cunt: A Declaration of Independence
Cunt: A Declaration of Independence 3.89 avg rating — 10,595 ratings
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Infidel
Infidel 4.20 avg rating — 91,944 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 — 55,460 ratings
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The Poisonwood Bible
The Poisonwood Bible 4.11 avg rating — 779,775 ratings
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The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia 4.25 avg rating — 143,154 ratings
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The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)
The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1) 4.46 avg rating — 986,374 ratings
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The Wretched of the Earth
The Wretched of the Earth 4.34 avg rating — 30,601 ratings
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Angela's Ashes
Angela's Ashes 4.15 avg rating — 650,954 ratings
48.
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 3.92 avg rating — 26,300 ratings
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Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity 4.27 avg rating — 8,773 ratings
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Americanah
Americanah 4.31 avg rating — 401,499 ratings
51.
The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto
by: Karl Marx
3.67 avg rating — 189,251 ratings
52.
The Shame of the Nation
The Shame of the Nation 4.14 avg rating — 5,065 ratings
53.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches 4.53 avg rating — 39,726 ratings
54.
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color 4.52 avg rating — 9,683 ratings
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate 4.16 avg rating — 27,263 ratings
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The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story
The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story 3.96 avg rating — 16,713 ratings
57.
Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto
Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto 4.13 avg rating — 4,029 ratings
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Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies 3.70 avg rating — 3,117,460 ratings
59.
Notes of a Native Son
Notes of a Native Son 4.37 avg rating — 23,280 ratings
60.
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe 4.28 avg rating — 321,376 ratings
61.
Snow Falling on Cedars
Snow Falling on Cedars 3.86 avg rating — 192,456 ratings
62.
My Bondage and My Freedom
My Bondage and My Freedom 4.38 avg rating — 12,159 ratings
63.
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media 4.24 avg rating — 23,236 ratings
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The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye 4.13 avg rating — 288,105 ratings
65.
Othello
Othello 3.89 avg rating — 428,033 ratings
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Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women 4.04 avg rating — 9,233 ratings
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Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men 3.89 avg rating — 2,751,930 ratings
68.
Black Skin, White Masks
Black Skin, White Masks 4.26 avg rating — 18,207 ratings
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Crossing the Seas: A Diary of My Thoughts
Crossing the Seas: A Diary of My Thoughts 3.57 avg rating — 1,983 ratings
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin 3.92 avg rating — 239,362 ratings
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic 4.39 avg rating — 28,867 ratings
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Twelve Years a Slave
Twelve Years a Slave 4.22 avg rating — 123,130 ratings
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Why We Can't Wait
Why We Can't Wait 4.54 avg rating — 8,975 ratings
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Where We Stand: Class Matters
Where We Stand: Class Matters 4.23 avg rating — 2,843 ratings
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Black Power: The Politics of Liberation
Black Power: The Politics of Liberation 4.37 avg rating — 2,102 ratings
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith 4.01 avg rating — 220,441 ratings
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Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape
Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape 4.05 avg rating — 4,079 ratings
78.
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza 4.33 avg rating — 13,222 ratings
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There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America 4.30 avg rating — 15,925 ratings
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None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture
None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture 4.12 avg rating — 540 ratings
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Invisible Man
Invisible Man 3.92 avg rating — 198,732 ratings
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
Are Prisons Obsolete? 4.52 avg rating — 28,735 ratings
83.
The Stranger
The Stranger 4.03 avg rating — 1,315,513 ratings
84.
Bad Feminist
Bad Feminist 3.92 avg rating — 117,715 ratings
85.
Nobody Knows My Name
Nobody Knows My Name 4.37 avg rating — 4,611 ratings
86.
Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 3.97 avg rating — 2,718,896 ratings
87.
The Outsiders
The Outsiders 4.14 avg rating — 1,538,310 ratings
88.
Up from Slavery
Up from Slavery 4.11 avg rating — 35,601 ratings
89.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 4.17 avg rating — 56,856 ratings
90.
Woman at Point Zero
Woman at Point Zero 4.21 avg rating — 27,032 ratings
91.
Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me 4.40 avg rating — 357,391 ratings
92.
The Red Tent
The Red Tent 4.20 avg rating — 623,979 ratings
93.
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center 4.45 avg rating — 8,770 ratings
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The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex 4.29 avg rating — 2,424 ratings
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 476,951 ratings
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Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account Of The Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate
Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account Of The Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate 4.14 avg rating — 8,953 ratings
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Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights 3.90 avg rating — 1,959,186 ratings
98.
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City 4.47 avg rating — 109,942 ratings
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God Is Red: A Native View of Religion
God Is Red: A Native View of Religion 4.15 avg rating — 2,223 ratings
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The Frontlines of Peace: An Insider's Guide to Changing the World
The Frontlines of Peace: An Insider's Guide to Changing the World 4.20 avg rating — 308 ratings
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