Best Social Justice Books

Just Mercy

by Bryan Stevenson 2014 336 pages

4.63

200k+ ratings

Memoir

Social Justice

Race

Lady Justice

Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America

by Dahlia Lithwick 2022 368 pages

4.40

2k+ ratings

Politics

Feminism

History

A Gift of Hope

Helping the Homeless

by Danielle Steel 2012 146 pages

3.97

2k+ ratings

Romance

Memoir

Biography

A Call to Action

Women, Religion, Violence, and Power

by Jimmy Carter 2014 211 pages

4.04

2k+ ratings

Politics

Feminism

Religion

America's Original Sin

Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America

by Jim Wallis 2016 238 pages

4.08

1k+ ratings

Race

History

Anti Racist

The Locust Effect

Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence

by Gary A. Haugen 2013 368 pages

4.31

1k+ ratings

Politics

Social Justice

Sociology

Learning from the Germans

Race and the Memory of Evil

by Susan Neiman 2019 434 pages

4.22

1k+ ratings

History

Politics

Philosophy

Last Chance in Texas

The Redemption of Criminal Youth

by John Hubner 2005 304 pages

4.29

500+ ratings

True Crime

Psychology

Social Justice

Rules for Revolutionaries

How Big Organizing Can Change Everything

by Becky Bond 2016 200 pages

3.83

500+ ratings

Politics

Activism

Social Justice

"They Take Our Jobs!"

And 20 Other Myths about Immigration

by Aviva Chomsky 2007 264 pages

4.06

500+ ratings

Politics

History

Economics

Profit and Punishment

How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice

by Tony Messenger 2021 272 pages

4.27

500+ ratings

Politics

Social Justice

Law

Between Barack and a Hard Place

Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama

by Tim Wise 2009 159 pages

4.15

500+ ratings

Race

Politics

Anti Racist

Black Magic

What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph

by Chad Sanders 2021 287 pages

4.33

100+ ratings

Race

Leadership

History

Why We Can't Afford the Rich

by Andrew Sayer 2014 448 pages

4.02

100+ ratings

Economics

Politics

Society