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Cultural Books
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The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 319 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,581,095 ratings — published 2003
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 299 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,136,480 ratings — published 1997
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 261 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,796,818 ratings — published 2007
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 217 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.34 — 674,508 ratings — published 2017
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 199 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.97 — 716,730 ratings — published 1989
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 182 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.31 — 423,043 ratings — published 2013
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 177 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.09 — 391,752 ratings — published 2005
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 154 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.47 — 422,417 ratings — published 2016
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 138 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.75 — 423,150 ratings — published 1958
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.12 — 807,865 ratings — published 1998
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.96 — 337,439 ratings — published 1997
The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 125 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.18 — 225,738 ratings — published 2020
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.28 — 768,302 ratings — published 1982
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.98 — 760,763 ratings — published 1987
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.49 — 836,942 ratings — published 2016
The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.02 — 288,104 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 110 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.34 — 190,254 ratings — published 2006
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,779,514 ratings — published 2001
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.99 — 397,616 ratings — published 1937
Cutting for Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.34 — 436,349 ratings — published 2009
And the Mountains Echoed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.08 — 414,041 ratings — published 2012
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,077,653 ratings — published 2009
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.11 — 958,757 ratings — published 1878
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 100 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.29 — 132,459 ratings — published 2017
Crazy Rich Asians (Crazy Rich Asians, #1)
by (shelved 100 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.91 — 559,418 ratings — published 2013
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.66 — 401,074 ratings — published 2016
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
by (shelved 98 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.01 — 263,876 ratings — published 1931
A Fine Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.38 — 163,554 ratings — published 1995
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.18 — 210,068 ratings — published 1999
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.31 — 696,489 ratings — published 2016
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,137,216 ratings — published 1866
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.05 — 288,064 ratings — published 2007
The Island of Sea Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.32 — 182,204 ratings — published 2019
Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls, #1)
by (shelved 88 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.92 — 164,939 ratings — published 2009
A Tale for the Time Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.06 — 139,151 ratings — published 2013
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,036,333 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 — 635,637 ratings — published 2012
There There (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.97 — 233,683 ratings — published 2018
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 84 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,955,437 ratings — published 2005
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.22 — 636,876 ratings — published 2021
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.30 — 127,714 ratings — published 1991
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,137,935 ratings — published 1967
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.11 — 569,234 ratings — published 2002
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.18 — 149,182 ratings — published 2003
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.14 — 316,551 ratings — published 1970
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.99 — 508,480 ratings — published 1987
Shantaram (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.28 — 246,092 ratings — published 2003
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,049,820 ratings — published 2014
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.40 — 374,289 ratings — published 2015
“Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust.”
― 25,000 Years of Erotic Freedom
― 25,000 Years of Erotic Freedom
“Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.”
― The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
― The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
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