Which books made you think deeply about freedom, truth, and society?

Books have the power to challenge our perspectives, reveal hidden truths, and inspire us to think critically about the world around us. Stories—both real and imagined—can illustrate the importance of freedom, the consequences of unchecked power, and the resilience of those who fight for justice. Whether through dystopian fiction, historical accounts, or thought-provoking analysis, these books help us understand society in new ways. Which books have made you reflect deeply on freedom, truth, and the structures that shape our world?

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Details	Rating	Readers Count
1984 George Orwell	4.21	4,762 reads
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury	3.9	2,885 reads
Animal Farm George Orwell Boris Grabnar (Translator) Celâl Üster (Translator) Celâl Üstüner (Translator)	4.04	3,728 reads
The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood	4.09	2,070 reads
Brave New World Aldous Huxley	3.88	2,255 reads
Night Elie Wiesel Stella Rodway (Translator)	4.34	783 reads
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Marjane Satrapi Mattias Ripa (Translator)	4.37	403 reads
We Yevgeny Zamyatin Bela Shayevich (translator)	3.68	228 reads
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Ursula K. Le Guin	4.28	195 reads
On Tyranny Timothy Snyder	4.13	173 reads
The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K. Le Guin	4.06	744 reads
Lilith's Brood Octavia E. Butler	4	66 reads
Slaughterhouse 5 Kurt Vonnegut	4.08	1,750 reads
The Running Man	3.7	234 reads
Kindred Octavia E. Butler	4.36	518 reads
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil Hannah Arendt	4.26	53 reads
Vox Christina Dalcher	3.32	95 reads
Caste Isabel Wilkerson	4.43	225 reads
Tender Is the Flesh Agustina Bazterrica Sarah Moses (Translator)	3.71	480 reads
Unwind Neal Shusterman	4	230 reads
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business Neil Postman	4.08	114 reads
I Must Betray You Ruta Sepetys	4.31	75 reads
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, books I-II Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Thomas P. Whitney H.T. Willetts	4.13	47 reads
Chain Gang All Stars Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah	4.17	168 reads
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams	4.16	46 reads
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck	3.81	733 reads
The Plague Albert Camus Robin Buss (Translator)	3.97	374 reads
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes Suzanne Collins	3.71	917 reads
A People's History of the United States Howard Zinn Kathy Emery Ellen Gordon Reeves	4.23	217 reads
How Fascism Works Jason Stanley	4.12	32 reads
The Federalist Papers Alexander Hamilton James Madison John Jay	4.6	26 reads
Ringworld Larry Niven	3.61	386 reads
Somewhere Beyond the Sea TJ Klune	4.17	102 reads
1Q84 Haruki Murakami Jay Rubin (Translator) Philip Gabriel	3.66	468 reads
All Systems Red Martha Wells	4.06	2,060 reads
The Power Naomi Alderman	3.7	414 reads
Break the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police Violence Keith Ellison	4.5	2 reads
The Water Dancer Ta-Nehisi Coates	4.12	120 reads
Cyberspies Gordon Corera	3.75	5 reads
Internment Samira Ahmed	4.19	31 reads
Libertie Kaitlyn Greenidge	3.64	19 reads
On Freedom Timothy Snyder	4.67	6 reads
The Picture of Dorian Grey Oscar Wilde	4.06	1,612 reads
Education and Peace Maria Montessori Helen Lane (Translator)	4.5	1 read
Fascism: A Warning Madeleine Albright	4.05	24 reads
The Torture Camp on Paradise Street Stanislav Aseyev Станіслав Асєєв Nina Murray (Translator) Zenia Tompkins (Translator)	0	0 reads
Angel of Greenwood Randi Pink	4.5	5 reads
The New Flesh: Life and Death in the Data Economy Adam C. Jones	0	0 reads
The Wanting Way: Poems Adam Wolfond	0	0 reads
The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins	4.12	4,423 reads
What Is a Girl Worth?: My Story of Breaking the Silence and Exposing the Truth about Larry Nassar and USA Gymnastics Rachael Denhollander	4.75	8 reads
Hollow Fires Samira Ahmed	4.3	11 reads
Mockingjay Suzanne Collins	3.8	2,858 reads
The Inheritance Trilogy N.K. Jemisin	4.15	42 reads
We Should All Be Feminists Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	4.37	512 reads
Indian Horse Richard Wagamese	4.34	38 reads
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine Serhii Plokhy	4	18 reads
Pedagogy of the Oppressed Paulo Freire	4.19	41 reads
Autocracy Inc. Anne Applebaum	0	0 reads
The Jailing of Cecelia Capture Janet Campbell Hale	5	1 read
Girls' Last Tour, Vol. 6 Tsukumizu Amanda Haley (Translator)	4	6 reads
Prophet Song Paul Lynch	4.07	104 reads
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media Edward S. Herman Noam Chomsky	4	2 reads
The Dispossessed Ursula K. Le Guin	4.21	451 reads
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick	3.93	1,119 reads
Elijah of Buxton Christopher Paul Curtis	4	6 reads
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America Sarah Kendzior	3.93	19 reads
Teaching to Transgress bell hooks	3.86	13 reads
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy Jenny Odell	3.65	181 reads
The 48 Laws of Power Robert Greene	3.65	189 reads
A Time of Changes Robert Silverberg	3.22	9 reads
Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon	4.13	105 reads
Catching Fire Suzanne Collins	4.1	3,231 reads