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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 1984
| 4.21 | 5,219 reads | ||
 Fahrenheit 451
| 3.89 | 3,135 reads | ||
 Animal Farm
| 4.04 | 4,084 reads | ||
 The Handmaid's Tale
| 4.09 | 2,209 reads | ||
 Brave New World
| 3.88 | 2,471 reads | ||
 Night
| 4.34 | 849 reads | ||
 Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
| 4.39 | 439 reads | ||
 The Left Hand of Darkness
| 4.06 | 835 reads | ||
 We
| 3.66 | 249 reads | ||
 The Hunger Games
| 4.11 | 4,813 reads | ||
 Kindred
| 4.36 | 539 reads | ||
 Slaughterhouse 5
| 4.09 | 1,889 reads | ||
 On Tyranny
| 4.17 | 189 reads | ||
 Tender Is the Flesh
| 3.7 | 521 reads | ||
 All Systems Red
| 4.07 | 2,323 reads | ||
 Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
| 4.28 | 59 reads | ||
 The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
| 3.72 | 1,000 reads | ||
 The Plague
| 3.97 | 413 reads | ||
 Catching Fire
| 4.1 | 3,525 reads | ||
 Kokoro
| 4.17 | 87 reads | ||
 The Running Man | 3.68 | 255 reads | ||
 The Dispossessed
| 4.21 | 502 reads | ||
 Vox
| 3.37 | 120 reads | ||
 Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
| 4.45 | 243 reads | ||
 The Water Dancer
| 4.08 | 128 reads | ||
 No Longer Human
| 3.86 | 569 reads | ||
 Unwind
| 4 | 246 reads | ||
 Amusing Ourselves to Death
| 4.07 | 123 reads | ||
 I Must Betray You
| 4.33 | 80 reads | ||
 The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, books I-II
| 4.12 | 54 reads | ||
 Mockingjay
| 3.8 | 3,108 reads | ||
 Lilith's Brood
| 4.02 | 69 reads | ||
 Pedagogy of the Oppressed
| 4.21 | 45 reads | ||
 Chain Gang All Stars
| 4.15 | 183 reads | ||
 Careless People
| 4.18 | 101 reads | ||
 Fascism: A Warning
| 4.19 | 34 reads | ||
 The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
| 4.28 | 72 reads | ||
 How Fascism Works
| 4.12 | 32 reads | ||
 The Federalist Papers
| 4.33 | 50 reads | ||
 Ringworld
| 3.65 | 420 reads | ||
 The Plotinus
| 4.5 | 2 reads | ||
 Children of Time
| 4.27 | 977 reads | ||
 1Q84
| 3.68 | 514 reads | ||
 A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town
| 3.55 | 41 reads | ||
 A People's History of the United States
| 4.23 | 232 reads | ||
 The Power
| 3.7 | 440 reads | ||
 Kafka in Tangier
| 4 | 2 reads | ||
 I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
| 3.66 | 180 reads | ||
 On Freedom
| 4.71 | 7 reads | ||
 Cyberspies
| 3.75 | 5 reads | ||
 Internment
| 3.96 | 32 reads | ||
 Libertie
| 3.69 | 21 reads | ||
 Lovesick
| 3.5 | 5 reads | ||
 We Should All Be Feminists
| 4.36 | 547 reads | ||
 A Short Stay in Hell
| 4.1 | 147 reads | ||
 The Picture of Dorian Grey
| 4.06 | 1,752 reads | ||
 Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery
| 4.37 | 141 reads | ||
 Grave of the Fireflies
| 4 | 6 reads | ||
 Education and Peace
| 4.5 | 1 read | ||
 Angel of Greenwood
| 4.5 | 5 reads | ||
 Metamorfosis
| 5 | 1 read | ||
 The Torture Camp on Paradise Street
| 0 | 0 reads | ||
 The Stories of Ray Bradbury
| 4 | 14 reads | ||
 What Is a Girl Worth?: My Story of Breaking the Silence and Exposing the Truth about Larry Nassar and USA Gymnastics
| 4.7 | 10 reads | ||
 How Do You Live?
| 3.75 | 58 reads | ||
 We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
| 4.64 | 21 reads | ||
 Hollow Fires
| 4.3 | 11 reads | ||
 The New Flesh: Life and Death in the Data Economy
| 0 | 0 reads | ||
 Development as Freedom
| 3.8 | 9 reads | ||
 The Inheritance Trilogy
| 4.13 | 46 reads | ||
 The Wanting Way: Poems
| 0 | 0 reads | ||
 Indian Horse
| 4.3 | 36 reads | ||
 The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
| 4 | 18 reads | ||
 Autocracy Inc.
| 0 | 0 reads | ||
 Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era
| 4.5 | 7 reads | ||
 One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
| 4.81 | 10 reads | ||
 The Jailing of Cecelia Capture
| 5 | 1 read | ||
 Girls' Last Tour, Vol. 6
| 4 | 7 reads | ||
 Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
| 3.57 | 17 reads | ||
 Parable of the Sower
| 4.13 | 677 reads | ||
 Prophet Song
| 4.05 | 110 reads | ||
 Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
| 4 | 2 reads | ||
 Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
| 3.87 | 20 reads | ||
 Somewhere Beyond the Sea
| 4.16 | 126 reads | ||
 Break the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police Violence
| 4.5 | 2 reads | ||
 Elijah of Buxton
| 3.88 | 7 reads | ||
 Cain
| 3.7 | 48 reads | ||
 Watchmen
| 4.42 | 1,221 reads | ||
 The Hellbound Heart
| 3.97 | 155 reads | ||
 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
| 3.94 | 1,229 reads | ||
 How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
| 3.62 | 200 reads | ||
 The 48 Laws of Power
| 3.64 | 212 reads | ||
 Teaching to Transgress
| 4 | 15 reads | ||
 Gravity's Rainbow
| 4.17 | 116 reads | ||
 A Time of Changes
| 3.27 | 11 reads | ||
 Foundation
| 3.99 | 1,485 reads | ||
 The Grapes of Wrath
| 3.82 | 788 reads | ||
 The Memory Police
| 3.69 | 337 reads |