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The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,604,646 ratings — published 2003
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,814,392 ratings — published 2007
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,143,533 ratings — published 1997
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.34 — 688,254 ratings — published 2017
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.31 — 425,735 ratings — published 2013
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as cultures)
avg rating 3.75 — 425,617 ratings — published 1958
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as cultures)
avg rating 3.97 — 718,252 ratings — published 1989
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.16 — 638,517 ratings — published 2012
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.48 — 845,320 ratings — published 2016
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.47 — 427,341 ratings — published 2016
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as cultures)
avg rating 3.83 — 514,541 ratings — published 2016
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.09 — 392,740 ratings — published 2005
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as cultures)
avg rating 3.66 — 359,437 ratings — published 2006
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.31 — 128,839 ratings — published 1991
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.29 — 133,883 ratings — published 2017
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.01 — 264,614 ratings — published 1931
The Red Tent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.21 — 642,881 ratings — published 1997
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cultures)
avg rating 3.96 — 341,020 ratings — published 1997
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as cultures)
avg rating 3.81 — 279,583 ratings — published 1998
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.16 — 668,563 ratings — published 1996
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.22 — 644,971 ratings — published 2021
The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.32 — 32,336 ratings — published 2014
The Island of Sea Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.33 — 185,638 ratings — published 2019
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.28 — 240,686 ratings — published 2003
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.34 — 192,159 ratings — published 2006
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,323,840 ratings — published 1947
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.18 — 211,285 ratings — published 1999
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.12 — 812,085 ratings — published 1998
Digging to America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cultures)
avg rating 3.60 — 23,935 ratings — published 2006
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.31 — 705,073 ratings — published 2016
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.06 — 511,526 ratings — published 2011
And the Mountains Echoed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.08 — 416,471 ratings — published 2012
The Buddha in the Attic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as cultures)
avg rating 3.71 — 65,929 ratings — published 2011
Same, Same But Different (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,072 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.04 — 472,062 ratings — published 1997
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.41 — 216,204 ratings — published 2007
Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as cultures)
avg rating 3.92 — 165,454 ratings — published 2009
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,401,004 ratings — published 1956
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.26 — 106,036 ratings — published 1970
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as cultures)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,786,109 ratings — published 2001
The Proudest Blue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.52 — 7,637 ratings — published 2019
Front Desk (Front Desk #1)
by (shelved 6 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.35 — 47,717 ratings — published 2018
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,967,721 ratings — published 2018
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as cultures)
avg rating 3.98 — 119,270 ratings — published 2012
The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Live and Buy as They Do (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as cultures)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,903 ratings — published 2006
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.00 — 144,325 ratings — published 2015
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,147,444 ratings — published 1967
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as cultures)
avg rating 3.98 — 769,885 ratings — published 1987
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.05 — 288,655 ratings — published 2007
Island of the Blue Dolphins (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as cultures)
avg rating 3.88 — 354,999 ratings — published 1960
“You need to go. You will go,” she proclaimed. “You’re already a pilgrim, Freddi.”
Every time I spoke to her, she repeated it for years, including the last time I’d spoken with her, just a few days before I walked off the doorstep of that albergue in Saint-Jean-Pied-De-Port.
“Pilgrim.”
She was the first to call me that, but not the last. Everyone became a pilgrim that first day. Our openness with one another created something. We surrounded ourselves with people of all generations and cultures and backgrounds; we were united in exhaustion from carrying our damaged, decaying spirits.”
― Relish In the Tread
Every time I spoke to her, she repeated it for years, including the last time I’d spoken with her, just a few days before I walked off the doorstep of that albergue in Saint-Jean-Pied-De-Port.
“Pilgrim.”
She was the first to call me that, but not the last. Everyone became a pilgrim that first day. Our openness with one another created something. We surrounded ourselves with people of all generations and cultures and backgrounds; we were united in exhaustion from carrying our damaged, decaying spirits.”
― Relish In the Tread
“All cultures are not equal. Or at least they are not equal in preparing people to be productive in an advanced economy. [Amy Wax & Larry Alexander]...
Anthropologists generally agree that cultures and subcultures instill different goals, skills, and virtues in their members”
― The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure
Anthropologists generally agree that cultures and subcultures instill different goals, skills, and virtues in their members”
― The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure
