Cultural Heritage

Cultural heritage is the legacy of physical artefacts and intangible attributes of a group or society that are inherited from past generations, maintained in the present and bestowed for the benefit of future generations. Cultural heritage includes tangible culture (such as buildings, monuments, landscapes, books, works of art, and artefacts), intangible culture (such as folklore, traditions, language, and knowledge), and natural heritage (including culturally significant landscapes, and biodiversity).

The deliberate act of keeping cultural heritage from the present for the future is known as p ...more

Cultural Heritage Books

The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History

The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

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No Tildes on Tuesday by Cherrye S. Vasquez

Dare To Dream! by Sandra McLeod Humphrey

They Stood Alone! by Sandra McLeod Humphrey

Affirmation Daybook by Cherrye S. Vasquez

Celebrating ALL Races: Diversity, Heritages, Cultures, Biracial, Multicultural, Monocultural, Multiracial, Monoracial, Multiethnic, and Monoethnic

127 books — 99 voters

The New Homeowner's Guide to House Spirits by Alexei Maxim Russell

Tales from the Black Meadow by Chris Lambert

The best mythogeographic list ever!

125 books — 15 voters

Until Our Voices Meet by Biswatosh Sinha

A Brief History of Underpants by Christine Van Zandt

Best Stories With Diversity For Young Readers

34 books — 27 voters

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Novels about Big Houses

54 books — 27 voters

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

Overseas Vietnamese Reading List

31 books — 11 voters

Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley

Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

52 Book Club 2024: #46 Featuring Indigenous Culture

220 books — 138 voters

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“ What happens to our island affects all of us, including my boys.” Isa looked Marco in the eyes, like a boa constrictor eyeing its prey. “That gives me every right to an opinion. ”
― Margarita Barresi, A Delicate Marriage

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“ The gingko tree leans lazily against the facing wall or perhaps it supports it; Stephen cannot be sure. The dense ridges of its bark now appear like rippled sand with, here and there, pools left behind by the tide. The bark is pocked with white spots, holed and crinkled with age, seemingly dead but for the life sprouting in its leaves, so smooth, so green, so deep. How remarkable this tree is, how changeable, how mysterious its leaves and branches and trunk … how infinite. Stephen reaches for an ...more ”
― Michael Tobert, Karna's Wheel

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