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
Kira-Kira by Cynthia KadohataAmerican Born Chinese by Gene Luen YangGirl in Translation by Jean KwokEleanor & Park by Rainbow RowellBorn Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier
Best Asian-American Teen Fiction
278 books — 336 voters
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeCutting for Stone by Abraham   VergheseThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Fictitious Africa
562 books — 284 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

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

Naomi Wolf
Men are visually aroused by women's bodies and less sensitive to their arousal by women's personalities because they are trained early into that response, while women are less visually aroused and more emotionally aroused because that is their training. This asymmetry in sexual education maintains men's power in the myth: They look at women's bodies, evaluate, move on; their own bodies are not looked at, evaluated, and taken or passed over. But there is no "rock called gender" responsible for th ...more
Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

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