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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 331 times as culture)
avg rating 4.17 — 38,255 ratings — published 1985
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 244 times as culture)
avg rating 3.84 — 503,513 ratings — published 2016
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 226 times as culture)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,257,232 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 199 times as culture)
avg rating 4.04 — 456,721 ratings — published 1997
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 193 times as culture)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,486,206 ratings — published 2003
The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 183 times as culture)
avg rating 4.33 — 29,821 ratings — published 2014
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 164 times as culture)
avg rating 4.40 — 365,907 ratings — published 2015
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 158 times as culture)
avg rating 4.01 — 896,668 ratings — published 2005
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 156 times as culture)
avg rating 4.19 — 865,206 ratings — published 2008
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as culture)
avg rating 4.01 — 854,610 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 144 times as culture)
avg rating 4.23 — 56,084 ratings — published 2018
The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 139 times as culture)
avg rating 4.57 — 6,144 ratings — published 2020
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as culture)
avg rating 4.08 — 474,562 ratings — published 2012
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as culture)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,108,287 ratings — published 1997
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 134 times as culture)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,731,051 ratings — published 2007
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as culture)
avg rating 4.32 — 175,147 ratings — published 2024
The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as culture)
avg rating 4.24 — 35,383 ratings — published 2017
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as culture)
avg rating 4.20 — 89,077 ratings — published 1997
Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)
by (shelved 116 times as culture)
avg rating 3.85 — 100,429 ratings — published 1987
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as culture)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,599 ratings — published 1978
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as culture)
avg rating 4.52 — 161,029 ratings — published 2020
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as culture)
avg rating 4.49 — 804,809 ratings — published 2016
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 111 times as culture)
avg rating 3.74 — 411,947 ratings — published 1958
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as culture)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,443,694 ratings — published 1949
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as culture)
avg rating 3.74 — 72,601 ratings — published 2003
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as culture)
avg rating 4.19 — 65,838 ratings — published 2012
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 105 times as culture)
avg rating 4.18 — 287,004 ratings — published 2015
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 103 times as culture)
avg rating 4.16 — 171,998 ratings — published 2018
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as culture)
avg rating 4.51 — 171,989 ratings — published 2013
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as culture)
avg rating 4.31 — 411,878 ratings — published 2013
The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
by (shelved 99 times as culture)
avg rating 4.28 — 80,524 ratings — published 1988
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 97 times as culture)
avg rating 4.34 — 621,730 ratings — published 2017
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as culture)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,261 ratings — published 1992
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as culture)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,853,610 ratings — published 2018
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as culture)
avg rating 3.75 — 206,500 ratings — published 2001
The Closing of the American Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as culture)
avg rating 3.76 — 5,972 ratings — published 1987
Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)
by (shelved 93 times as culture)
avg rating 4.16 — 52,536 ratings — published 1990
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as culture)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,870,575 ratings — published 1960
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as culture)
avg rating 4.20 — 17,242 ratings — published 2019
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as culture)
avg rating 4.19 — 210,262 ratings — published 2006
The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as culture)
avg rating 3.80 — 6,557 ratings — published 2017
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as culture)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,354 ratings — published 2019
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as culture)
avg rating 3.94 — 74,622 ratings — published 2004
Excession (Culture, #5)
by (shelved 85 times as culture)
avg rating 4.20 — 34,082 ratings — published 1996
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as culture)
avg rating 4.00 — 336,370 ratings — published 2019
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as culture)
avg rating 3.89 — 32,944 ratings — published 2010
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as culture)
avg rating 4.23 — 595,458 ratings — published 2021
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as culture)
avg rating 4.02 — 78,207 ratings — published 2019
How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as culture)
avg rating 4.18 — 14,406 ratings — published 1975
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as culture)
avg rating 3.97 — 709,196 ratings — published 1989
“V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.”
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