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
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi AdeyemiLove, Hate & Other Filters by Samira AhmedAmerican Panda by Gloria ChaoThe Belles by Dhonielle ClaytonA Girl Like That by Tanaz Bhathena
2018 YA/MG Books With POC Leads
250 books — 291 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

Beast by Pepper PaceThe Grunt 1 by Latrivia S. NelsonThe Ballerina & The Fighter by Ursula SinclairThe Space Between by Victoria H. SmithTaken By Moonlight by Violette Dubrinsky
Multicultural New Adult Fiction
290 books — 255 voters
Kindred by Octavia E. ButlerThe Tales of Ian and Bry-Ankh The Great Silver Dragon by Jim DilyardLegend by Marie LuBinti by Nnedi OkoraforThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Diversity in Fantasy and Science Fiction
1,162 books — 917 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
2,208 books — 1,970 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
243 books — 206 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
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

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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