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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 336 times as culture)
avg rating 4.17 — 41,954 ratings — published 1985
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 245 times as culture)
avg rating 3.83 — 516,430 ratings — published 2016
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 234 times as culture)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,336,890 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 198 times as culture)
avg rating 4.04 — 474,919 ratings — published 1997
The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 198 times as culture)
avg rating 4.32 — 32,805 ratings — published 2014
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 196 times as culture)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,624,733 ratings — published 2003
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 167 times as culture)
avg rating 4.40 — 377,391 ratings — published 2015
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 163 times as culture)
avg rating 4.01 — 913,208 ratings — published 2005
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 156 times as culture)
avg rating 4.19 — 893,606 ratings — published 2008
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as culture)
avg rating 4.01 — 869,642 ratings — published 2000
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 151 times as culture)
avg rating 4.22 — 59,640 ratings — published 2018
The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 145 times as culture)
avg rating 4.55 — 6,568 ratings — published 2020
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 137 times as culture)
avg rating 4.07 — 487,023 ratings — published 2012
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as culture)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,149,335 ratings — published 1997
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as culture)
avg rating 4.29 — 224,826 ratings — published 2024
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 131 times as culture)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,829,626 ratings — published 2007
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as culture)
avg rating 4.21 — 91,308 ratings — published 1997
The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as culture)
avg rating 4.23 — 37,710 ratings — published 2017
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as culture)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,642 ratings — published 1978
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as culture)
avg rating 4.48 — 853,669 ratings — published 2016
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as culture)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,799,713 ratings — published 1949
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 116 times as culture)
avg rating 3.75 — 428,109 ratings — published 1958
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as culture)
avg rating 4.52 — 169,271 ratings — published 2020
Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)
by (shelved 113 times as culture)
avg rating 3.84 — 104,550 ratings — published 1987
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as culture)
avg rating 4.50 — 191,839 ratings — published 2013
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as culture)
avg rating 3.74 — 73,403 ratings — published 2003
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as culture)
avg rating 4.19 — 69,656 ratings — published 2012
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 108 times as culture)
avg rating 4.18 — 296,995 ratings — published 2015
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as culture)
avg rating 4.31 — 427,989 ratings — published 2013
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 104 times as culture)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,688 ratings — published 2018
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 103 times as culture)
avg rating 4.34 — 701,727 ratings — published 2017
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as culture)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,663 ratings — published 1992
The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
by (shelved 100 times as culture)
avg rating 4.28 — 84,522 ratings — published 1988
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as culture)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,988,734 ratings — published 2018
The Closing of the American Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as culture)
avg rating 3.76 — 6,078 ratings — published 1987
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as culture)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,148,610 ratings — published 1960
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as culture)
avg rating 3.75 — 207,067 ratings — published 2001
Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)
by (shelved 93 times as culture)
avg rating 4.16 — 54,656 ratings — published 1990
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as culture)
avg rating 4.19 — 17,696 ratings — published 2019
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as culture)
avg rating 4.19 — 212,641 ratings — published 2006
The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as culture)
avg rating 3.79 — 6,769 ratings — published 2017
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as culture)
avg rating 4.36 — 121,198 ratings — published 2019
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as culture)
avg rating 4.22 — 652,396 ratings — published 2021
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as culture)
avg rating 4.00 — 345,536 ratings — published 2019
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as culture)
avg rating 4.01 — 80,155 ratings — published 2019
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as culture)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,908 ratings — published 2004
Excession (Culture, #5)
by (shelved 85 times as culture)
avg rating 4.19 — 35,875 ratings — published 1996
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as culture)
avg rating 3.89 — 33,956 ratings — published 2010
How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as culture)
avg rating 4.18 — 14,682 ratings — published 1975
The Nineties (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as culture)
avg rating 3.87 — 32,123 ratings — published 2022
“I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.”
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“We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But then you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible.”
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