Cultural

Cultural refers to books that depict a place or time and its culture.

There Are Rivers in the Sky
The Volcano Daughters
The Truth According to Ember
The Girl with No Reflection
Kisses, Codes, and Conspiracies
And So I Roar
The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
Pixel Flesh: How Toxic Beauty Culture Harms Women
She Who Knows (She Who Knows #1)
Lion Dancers
Masquerade
Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age
Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics
The Ping-Pong Queen of Chinatown
Henna Is . . .
Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray
Church of Cowards: A Wake-Up Call to Complacent Christians
The Problem with Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars
A Good Wife
You Can't Joke About That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We're All in This Together
Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century
The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty
The Case Against Socialism
Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil
Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
The Cypress Maze
A Most Tolerant Little Town: The Explosive Beginning of School Desegregation
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
The Wrong Wife (Golden Knights #1)
Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
Beast by Pepper PaceThe Grunt 1 by Latrivia S. NelsonLoveScript by Tiffany AshleyDestino by Sienna MynxHer Russian Billionaire by Theodora Taylor
Best Interracial Reads
989 books — 724 voters

1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyMan’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Best Books To Frame Thinking
1,246 books — 1,470 voters
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi AdeyemiLove, Hate & Other Filters by Samira AhmedAmerican Panda by Gloria ChaoThe Belles by Dhonielle ClaytonA Girl Like That by Tanaz Bhathena
2018 YA/MG Books With POC Leads
247 books — 301 voters

The Kite Runner
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Memoirs of a Geisha
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Pachinko
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Joy Luck Club
Esperanza Rising
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Americanah
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Between the World and Me

Camille Paglia
We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But then you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible. ...more
Camille Paglia

Peter Ustinov
I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.
Peter Ustinov

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