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Cultural Books
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The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 316 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,537,106 ratings — published 2003
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 298 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,123,402 ratings — published 1997
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 260 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,766,224 ratings — published 2007
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 218 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.34 — 648,472 ratings — published 2017
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 199 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.97 — 713,047 ratings — published 1989
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 182 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.31 — 418,207 ratings — published 2013
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 177 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.09 — 389,716 ratings — published 2005
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 154 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.47 — 413,113 ratings — published 2016
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 138 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.75 — 418,030 ratings — published 1958
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.11 — 800,393 ratings — published 1998
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.96 — 331,163 ratings — published 1997
The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 125 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.18 — 221,058 ratings — published 2020
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.28 — 760,660 ratings — published 1982
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.99 — 745,167 ratings — published 1987
The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.02 — 286,105 ratings — published 2003
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.49 — 821,481 ratings — published 2016
Men and Monsters (Nightfall, #2)
by (shelved 112 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.40 — 556 ratings — published 2018
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.34 — 186,904 ratings — published 2006
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,766,225 ratings — published 2001
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.99 — 392,391 ratings — published 1937
Cutting for Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.34 — 431,864 ratings — published 2009
And the Mountains Echoed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.08 — 409,384 ratings — published 2012
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,048,909 ratings — published 2009
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.11 — 945,399 ratings — published 1878
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 99 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.29 — 129,247 ratings — published 2017
Crazy Rich Asians (Crazy Rich Asians, #1)
by (shelved 99 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.91 — 553,514 ratings — published 2013
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.67 — 387,510 ratings — published 2016
A Fine Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.38 — 161,605 ratings — published 1995
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
by (shelved 97 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.01 — 262,292 ratings — published 1931
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.32 — 682,217 ratings — published 2016
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.18 — 208,032 ratings — published 1999
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,109,649 ratings — published 1866
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.05 — 286,540 ratings — published 2007
A Tale for the Time Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.06 — 137,268 ratings — published 2013
The Island of Sea Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.32 — 175,161 ratings — published 2019
Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls, #1)
by (shelved 88 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.92 — 163,823 ratings — published 2009
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.16 — 629,694 ratings — published 2012
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,024,265 ratings — published 2017
There There (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.97 — 230,033 ratings — published 2018
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 84 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,918,198 ratings — published 2005
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.23 — 618,030 ratings — published 2021
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.30 — 125,696 ratings — published 1991
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,121,845 ratings — published 1967
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.11 — 558,290 ratings — published 2002
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.18 — 146,251 ratings — published 2003
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.98 — 499,127 ratings — published 1987
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.13 — 309,173 ratings — published 1970
Shantaram (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.28 — 242,969 ratings — published 2003
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,012,515 ratings — published 2014
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.40 — 370,845 ratings — published 2015
“Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
“The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.”
― The Republic of Plato
― The Republic of Plato
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