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
Polarity in Motion by Brenda VicarsNoughts & Crosses by Malorie BlackmanEleanor & Park by Rainbow RowellEverything, Everything by Nicola YoonLiving Violet by Jaime Reed
Interracial young adult novels
351 books — 218 voters
The New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Books White People Need to Read
1,447 books — 1,813 voters

Avoid Angry Alligators by Dianne Rigby WrightThe Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian AndersenChrysanthemum by Kevin HenkesIt's Okay to Be Different by Todd ParrA Color of His Own by Leo Lionni
It's Good to Be Me
352 books — 199 voters
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


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

Terence McKenna
We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you're giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking. ...more
Terence McKenna

Naomi Wolf
A consequence of female self-love is that the woman grows convinced of social worth. Her love for her body will be unqualified, which is the basis of female identification. If a woman loves her own body, she doesn't grudge what other women do with theirs; if she loves femaleness, she champions its rights. It's true what they say about women: Women are insatiable. We are greedy. Our appetites do need to be controlled if things are to stay in place. If the world were ours too, if we believed we co ...more
Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

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