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The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 320 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,624,721 ratings — published 2003
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 298 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,149,328 ratings — published 1997
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 261 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,829,608 ratings — published 2007
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 215 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.34 — 701,711 ratings — published 2017
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 197 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.97 — 719,746 ratings — published 1989
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 180 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.31 — 427,989 ratings — published 2013
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 174 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.09 — 393,722 ratings — published 2005
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 154 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.46 — 431,722 ratings — published 2016
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 138 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.75 — 428,108 ratings — published 1958
The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 129 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.17 — 230,142 ratings — published 2020
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.12 — 816,027 ratings — published 1998
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.96 — 344,050 ratings — published 1997
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.48 — 853,663 ratings — published 2016
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.28 — 775,599 ratings — published 1982
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.98 — 777,569 ratings — published 1987
The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.02 — 290,032 ratings — published 2003
Men and Monsters (Nightfall, #2)
by (shelved 112 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.39 — 557 ratings — published 2018
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.34 — 193,783 ratings — published 2006
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,791,663 ratings — published 2001
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.00 — 402,233 ratings — published 1937
Cutting for Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.34 — 440,559 ratings — published 2009
And the Mountains Echoed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.08 — 418,709 ratings — published 2012
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,107,006 ratings — published 2009
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 100 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.29 — 135,325 ratings — published 2017
Crazy Rich Asians (Crazy Rich Asians, #1)
by (shelved 100 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.91 — 564,488 ratings — published 2013
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.11 — 972,790 ratings — published 1878
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.66 — 414,183 ratings — published 2016
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.18 — 212,204 ratings — published 1999
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
by (shelved 98 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.01 — 265,742 ratings — published 1931
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.31 — 712,736 ratings — published 2016
A Fine Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.38 — 165,854 ratings — published 1995
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,168,342 ratings — published 1866
The Island of Sea Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.33 — 188,769 ratings — published 2019
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.05 — 289,402 ratings — published 2007
Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls, #1)
by (shelved 88 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.92 — 166,018 ratings — published 2009
A Tale for the Time Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.06 — 140,830 ratings — published 2013
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,046,986 ratings — published 2017
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.16 — 641,476 ratings — published 2012
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 84 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,990,443 ratings — published 2005
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,157,851 ratings — published 1967
There There (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.97 — 237,002 ratings — published 2018
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.22 — 652,388 ratings — published 2021
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.31 — 129,865 ratings — published 1991
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.14 — 327,852 ratings — published 1970
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.18 — 152,114 ratings — published 2003
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.11 — 580,186 ratings — published 2002
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.40 — 377,389 ratings — published 2015
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.99 — 517,681 ratings — published 1987
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,079,287 ratings — published 2014
Shantaram (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.28 — 249,413 ratings — published 2003
“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“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 omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his desires - or forbidden to him - he attributed to these gods. One may say, therefore, that these gods were the ideals of his culture. Now he has himself approached very near to realizing this ideal, he has nearly become a god himself. But only, it is true, in the way that ideals are usually realized in the general experience of humanity. Not completely; in some respects not at all, in others only by halves. Man has become a god by means of artificial limbs, so to speak, quite magnificent when equipped with all his accessory organs; but they do not grow on him and they still give him trouble at times... Future ages will produce further great advances in this realm of culture, probably inconceivable now, and will increase man's likeness to a god still more.”
― Civilization and Its Discontents
― Civilization and Its Discontents
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