Cultural

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

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Villa Coco
Little Wonder
Medicine Wheels
Behind Five Willows
The Forgotten Midwife
The Library of Flowers
An Ordinary Sort of Evil (A Rip Through Time, #5)
On Witness and Respair
Moonlight Murder (Detective Aunty Investigates, #2)
Landing in Place: A Graphic Novel
What's So Great About the Great Books?: Why You Should Read Classic Literature (Even Though It Might Destroy You)
Little Wonder
The Fourth Option
The Forgotten Midwife
Call of the Camino
Abscond
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future
Saoirse
Leave Your Mess at Home
If I Ruled the World
The Wrong Fiancée: Dean's Story (Marriage by Contract, #3)
This Is Where the Serpent Lives
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
Football
Mixed Feelings: A Graphic Novel
Park Avenue
Beast by Pepper PaceThe Grunt 1 by Latrivia S. NelsonLoveScript by Tiffany AshleyDestino by Sienna MynxHer Russian Billionaire by Theodora Taylor
Best Interracial Reads
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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
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The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeAgainst Nature by Joris-Karl HuysmansLes Fleurs du Mal by Charles BaudelaireThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Decadence & the Fin-de-Siècle
243 books — 206 voters

Wings of Ebony by J. ElleCounting Down with You by Tashie BhuiyanThe Gilded Ones by Namina FornaThe Forest of Stolen Girls by June HurThe Ones We're Meant to Find by Joan He
2021 YA/MG Books With POC Leads
299 books — 230 voters
Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz RyanMufaro's Beautiful Daughters by John SteptoeThe Name Jar by Yangsook ChoiThe Sandwich Swap by Rania al-AbdullahAlphabet Amigos by Angel M. Alvarez
Best Multicultural Books for Children
470 books — 358 voters

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

Naomi Wolf
Sadly, the signals that allow men and women to find the partners who most please them are scrambled by the sexual insecurity initiated by beauty thinking. A woman who is self-conscious can't relax to let her sensuality come into play. If she is hungry she will be tense. If she is "done up" she will be on the alert for her reflection in his eyes. If she is ashamed of her body, its movement will be stilled. If she does not feel entitled to claim attention, she will not demand that airspace to shin ...more
Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

Plato
The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died. ...more
Plato, The Republic of Plato

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