Reading for Change: Books That Challenge the Status Quo

Here’s a list of 10 thought-provoking books often explore deep questions about social structures, inequality, politics, human nature, and the power dynamics at play in our world.

1. "The Dispossessed" by Ursula K. Le Guin

2. "1984" by George Orwell

3. "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" by Naomi Klein

4. "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" by Paulo Freire

5. "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

6. "The Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan

7. "The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

8. "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

9. "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

10. "The Road to Serfdom" by Friedrich Hayek