Cultural

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

Cursed Daughters
Family of Spies
Queen Esther
Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century
Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today (and Other Lessons From History About Living Through an Information Crisis)
A Guardian and a Thief
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
The Wayfinder
The Hong Kong Widow
The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
The Bone Thief
The Eight Heartbreaks of Hanukkah
Only God Can Judge Me: The Many Lives of Tupac Shakur
Moon Song (Song of the Seasons, #2)
Abscond
Call of the Camino
Queen Esther
The Anthropologists
The Fourth Daughter
The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop
Park Avenue
I Regret Almost Everything
Speak to Me of Home
Rosarita
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
The Secret World of Maggie Grey (Drew Collins, #1)
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenWhere Are You Now? by Sarah  ConnellThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniOceans of Trouble by Travis Casey
Around the World through Fiction
449 books — 189 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
298 books — 229 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
277 books — 335 voters
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenShōgun by James ClavellTai-Pan by James ClavellThe Good Earth by Pearl S. BuckA Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Transcultural Fiction
421 books — 209 voters

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
240 books — 201 voters
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonBlood River by Tim ButcherThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferInto the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Best Traveling Vicariously
2,122 books — 1,849 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
Esperanza Rising
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
The Joy Luck Club
Americanah
The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Ray Bradbury
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. ...more
Ray Bradbury

Alan             Moore
Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust.
Alan Moore, 25,000 Years of Erotic Freedom

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