Cultures


The Kite Runner
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Memoirs of a Geisha
Pachinko
Americanah
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
The Joy Luck Club
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Homegoing
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
The Forager Chefs Club by Rita Mace WalstonAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónHeat of Paris by Peter Breyer
Five Star Fiction-In My Opinion
443 books — 48 voters
In Cold Blood by Truman CapoteThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonA Long Way Gone by Ishmael BeahThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
True Crime-Read
136 books — 26 voters

The Mote in God's Eye by Larry NivenThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsEnder’s Game by Orson Scott CardA Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor VingeThe War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
Best Aliens
433 books — 345 voters

Povestea doamnei Murasaki by Liza DalbyJaponia, Viata si obiceiurile by Ioan TimușSingură pe Drumul Mătăsii by Sabina FatiInvisible Women by Caroline Criado PérezWayward Women by Jane Robinson
Thinking outwards
11 books — 1 voter
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniSnow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa SeeThe Daughter of Kurdland by Widad AkreyiZoroastrians' Fight for Survival by Widad Akreyi
Cultural reads
419 books — 167 voters

“ In the journey of wellness, sometimes the path less traveled leads to the most profound healing. Embrace the wisdom of cultures far and wide, for they hold secrets that conventional medicine has yet to uncover. ”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi, Dr Prem's Guide - Wellness Tourism

Marie Mutsuki Mockett
“ Because Japan looks modern on the surface, westerners feel like it ought to be "just like us", and are surprised when it is not. ...more ”
― Marie Mutsuki Mockett, Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey

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