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
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
Under This Forgetful Sky by Lauren YeroFake Dates and Mooncakes by Sher LeePedro & Daniel by Federico ErebiaSomething More by Jackie KhaliliehThe Love Match by Priyanka Taslim
2023 YA/MG Books With POC Leads
198 books — 202 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
1,306 books — 1,560 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

Sigmund Freud
It sounds like a fairy-tale, but not only that; this story of what man by his science and practical inventions has achieved on this earth, where he first appeared as a weakly member of the animal kingdom, and on which each individual of his species must ever again appear as a helpless infant... is a direct fulfilment of all, or of most, of the dearest wishes in his fairy-tales. All these possessions he has acquired through culture. Long ago he formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omnisc ...more
Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

Jess C. Scott
V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.
Jess C Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel

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