Social Justice: Books on Racism, Sexism, and Class

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Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood 4.49 avg rating — 778,749 ratings
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Voices of a People's History of the United States
Voices of a People's History of the United States 4.32 avg rating — 2,151 ratings
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Number the Stars
Number the Stars 4.19 avg rating — 608,407 ratings
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Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism 4.50 avg rating — 18,479 ratings
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Stone Butch Blues
Stone Butch Blues 4.53 avg rating — 34,583 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) 4.35 avg rating — 9,594,368 ratings
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The Complete Persepolis
The Complete Persepolis 4.40 avg rating — 199,562 ratings
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The Ways of White Folks
The Ways of White Folks 4.46 avg rating — 5,398 ratings
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Men Explain Things to Me
Men Explain Things to Me 3.83 avg rating — 85,145 ratings
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Full Frontal Feminism
Full Frontal Feminism 3.86 avg rating — 8,056 ratings
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Escape
Escape 3.98 avg rating — 45,882 ratings
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 4.16 avg rating — 933,566 ratings
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How to Be an Antiracist
How to Be an Antiracist 4.37 avg rating — 118,331 ratings
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If I Die in Juárez (Camino del Sol)
If I Die in Juárez (Camino del Sol) 4.16 avg rating — 279 ratings
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Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre 4.16 avg rating — 2,259,764 ratings
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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit 3.73 avg rating — 89,518 ratings
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Global Sex Workers (Oxford Historical Monographs)
Global Sex Workers (Oxford Historical Monographs) 4.35 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Stonewall
Stonewall 3.92 avg rating — 2,073 ratings
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We Should All Be Feminists
We Should All Be Feminists 4.40 avg rating — 320,727 ratings
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Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America 4.40 avg rating — 15,748 ratings
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Push
Push
by: Sapphire
3.87 avg rating — 58,129 ratings
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Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name 4.40 avg rating — 23,083 ratings
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 4.12 avg rating — 131,992 ratings
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The Culture of Make Believe
The Culture of Make Believe 4.26 avg rating — 1,885 ratings
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Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx 4.26 avg rating — 13,311 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
Outliers: The Story of Success 4.19 avg rating — 845,759 ratings
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures 4.20 avg rating — 87,600 ratings
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The Communist Manifesto and Other Revolutionary Writings: Marx, Marat, Paine, Mao, Gandhi, and Others
The Communist Manifesto and Other Revolutionary Writings: Marx, Marat, Paine, Mao, Gandhi, and Others
by: Karl Marx
3.86 avg rating — 436 ratings
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The Vagina Monologues
The Vagina Monologues 3.87 avg rating — 37,998 ratings
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They Come in All Colors
They Come in All Colors 3.45 avg rating — 334 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 — 10,877 ratings
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The Daughter of Kurdland: A Life Dedicated to Humankind
The Daughter of Kurdland: A Life Dedicated to Humankind 4.20 avg rating — 409 ratings
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Females of Valor (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #2)
Females of Valor (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #2) 4.74 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Zoroastrians' Fight for Survival (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #1)
Zoroastrians' Fight for Survival (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #1) 4.70 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Shanghai Girls
Shanghai Girls
by: Lisa See
3.92 avg rating — 160,769 ratings
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Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women 4.05 avg rating — 14,926 ratings
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We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy 4.38 avg rating — 30,602 ratings
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The Bonesetter's Daughter
The Bonesetter's Daughter
by: Amy Tan
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 131,941 ratings
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
The Witch of Blackbird Pond 4.02 avg rating — 157,962 ratings
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A Lesson Before Dying
A Lesson Before Dying 3.98 avg rating — 63,055 ratings
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Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation 4.26 avg rating — 5,516 ratings
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Manifesto of the Free People's Union
Manifesto of the Free People's Union 4.52 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties 4.37 avg rating — 491 ratings
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Slave: My True Story
Slave: My True Story 4.28 avg rating — 10,238 ratings
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The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad 4.06 avg rating — 433,308 ratings
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Orientalism
Orientalism 4.13 avg rating — 28,507 ratings
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Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race 4.38 avg rating — 99,860 ratings
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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism 4.16 avg rating — 170,211 ratings
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Hard Times
Hard Times 3.55 avg rating — 72,192 ratings
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Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment 3.71 avg rating — 19,530 ratings
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Kindred
Kindred 4.31 avg rating — 258,309 ratings
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Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness 3.43 avg rating — 545,725 ratings
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II 4.38 avg rating — 7,035 ratings
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America 4.53 avg rating — 37,881 ratings
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The Unwords
The Unwords
by: Non Nomen
3.66 avg rating — 268 ratings
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Storm and Silence (Storm and Silence, #1)
Storm and Silence (Storm and Silence, #1) 4.49 avg rating — 29,403 ratings
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Oliver Twist: The Parish Boy's Progress
Oliver Twist: The Parish Boy's Progress 3.88 avg rating — 419,626 ratings
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration 4.48 avg rating — 113,282 ratings
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Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance 3.97 avg rating — 13,937 ratings
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The Bell Jar
The Bell Jar 4.05 avg rating — 1,153,750 ratings
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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men 4.34 avg rating — 156,582 ratings
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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1) 3.51 avg rating — 669,457 ratings
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A Room of One’s Own
A Room of One’s Own 4.22 avg rating — 246,439 ratings
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Roots of To-Be Templars (The Viking's Kurdish Love #3)
Roots of To-Be Templars (The Viking's Kurdish Love #3) 4.71 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis 3.85 avg rating — 488,806 ratings
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U.S. Constitution (Saddlewire) (Books of American Wisdom)
U.S. Constitution (Saddlewire) (Books of American Wisdom) 4.52 avg rating — 27,061 ratings
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI 4.14 avg rating — 425,970 ratings
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The Second Sex
The Second Sex 4.18 avg rating — 45,862 ratings
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Gentleman's Agreement
Gentleman's Agreement 3.95 avg rating — 998 ratings
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Stranger in a Strange Land
Stranger in a Strange Land 3.92 avg rating — 323,279 ratings
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Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption 4.26 avg rating — 9,220 ratings
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Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality
Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality 4.16 avg rating — 2,792 ratings
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Transgender History
Transgender History 4.22 avg rating — 5,493 ratings
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White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America 3.76 avg rating — 24,555 ratings
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Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet 3.74 avg rating — 2,767,629 ratings
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The Priest (Ginecean Chronicles, #1)
The Priest (Ginecean Chronicles, #1) 3.68 avg rating — 173 ratings
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Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black
Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black 4.15 avg rating — 2,603 ratings
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Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia
Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia 3.97 avg rating — 967 ratings
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The Feminine Mystique
The Feminine Mystique 3.87 avg rating — 30,215 ratings
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row 4.65 avg rating — 75,645 ratings
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The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories 4.07 avg rating — 338,223 ratings
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Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls 3.89 avg rating — 26,412 ratings
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Educated
Educated 4.47 avg rating — 1,772,852 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 — 358,687 ratings
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Non-Violent Resistance
Non-Violent Resistance 4.15 avg rating — 877 ratings
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Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City
Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City
by: Jed Horne
3.89 avg rating — 622 ratings
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The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes 4.36 avg rating — 18,158 ratings
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When the Hood Comes Off: Racism and Resistance in the Digital Age
When the Hood Comes Off: Racism and Resistance in the Digital Age 4.44 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America 4.26 avg rating — 3,391 ratings
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Live from Death Row
Live from Death Row 4.24 avg rating — 2,555 ratings
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The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities
The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities 4.39 avg rating — 1,110 ratings
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North and South
North and South 4.15 avg rating — 179,580 ratings
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China 4.30 avg rating — 120,278 ratings
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I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala
I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala 3.85 avg rating — 6,323 ratings
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On Liberty
On Liberty 3.96 avg rating — 41,826 ratings
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Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism
Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism 4.18 avg rating — 183 ratings
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The Bookseller of Kabul
The Bookseller of Kabul 3.77 avg rating — 56,004 ratings
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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 — 87,489 ratings
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Once Upon a Lie
Once Upon a Lie 4.17 avg rating — 127 ratings
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Making A Difference: Reflecting on the Past, Thinking of the Future
Making A Difference: Reflecting on the Past, Thinking of the Future 4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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