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Cultural Books
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The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 316 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,480,449 ratings — published 2003
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 299 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,106,663 ratings — published 1997
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 259 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,727,913 ratings — published 2007
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 219 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.34 — 619,679 ratings — published 2017
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 198 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.97 — 708,947 ratings — published 1989
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 182 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.31 — 411,355 ratings — published 2013
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 174 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.09 — 387,160 ratings — published 2005
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 158 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.47 — 401,188 ratings — published 2016
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 141 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.74 — 411,508 ratings — published 1958
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.11 — 792,056 ratings — published 1998
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.96 — 324,370 ratings — published 1997
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.28 — 750,462 ratings — published 1982
The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 122 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.18 — 215,115 ratings — published 2020
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.49 — 802,958 ratings — published 2016
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.99 — 725,565 ratings — published 1987
The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.02 — 283,451 ratings — published 2003
Men and Monsters (Nightfall, #2)
by (shelved 112 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.40 — 556 ratings — published 2018
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,750,079 ratings — published 2001
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.34 — 182,716 ratings — published 2006
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.99 — 385,518 ratings — published 1937
Cutting for Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.33 — 425,725 ratings — published 2009
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.10 — 928,305 ratings — published 1878
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,012,035 ratings — published 2009
And the Mountains Echoed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.08 — 403,109 ratings — published 2012
A Fine Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.38 — 159,624 ratings — published 1995
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.67 — 370,722 ratings — published 2016
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 98 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.29 — 125,658 ratings — published 2017
Crazy Rich Asians (Crazy Rich Asians, #1)
by (shelved 98 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.91 — 546,889 ratings — published 2013
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.32 — 663,368 ratings — published 2016
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
by (shelved 97 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.01 — 260,369 ratings — published 1931
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.18 — 206,037 ratings — published 1999
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,073,624 ratings — published 1866
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.06 — 284,573 ratings — published 2007
A Tale for the Time Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.06 — 134,728 ratings — published 2013
Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls, #1)
by (shelved 87 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.92 — 162,518 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 — 621,770 ratings — published 2012
The Island of Sea Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.32 — 166,599 ratings — published 2019
There There (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.97 — 223,959 ratings — published 2018
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,008,165 ratings — published 2017
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 84 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,868,064 ratings — published 2005
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,100,414 ratings — published 1967
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.30 — 123,329 ratings — published 1991
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.23 — 593,428 ratings — published 2021
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.12 — 546,197 ratings — published 2002
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.18 — 142,355 ratings — published 2003
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.13 — 299,527 ratings — published 1970
Shantaram (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.28 — 238,831 ratings — published 2003
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 77 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.98 — 489,027 ratings — published 1987
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,965,465 ratings — published 2014
The Girl with the Louding Voice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.42 — 172,670 ratings — published 2020
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
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“I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.”
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