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The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,510,741 ratings — published 2003
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,747,321 ratings — published 2007
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,115,580 ratings — published 1997
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.34 — 633,698 ratings — published 2017
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.31 — 414,755 ratings — published 2013
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as cultures)
avg rating 3.75 — 414,605 ratings — published 1958
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as cultures)
avg rating 3.97 — 710,808 ratings — published 1989
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.49 — 812,413 ratings — published 2016
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as cultures)
avg rating 3.84 — 506,304 ratings — published 2016
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.16 — 625,910 ratings — published 2012
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.09 — 388,387 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 — 358,800 ratings — published 2006
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.30 — 124,432 ratings — published 1991
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.29 — 127,372 ratings — published 2017
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.47 — 406,803 ratings — published 2016
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.01 — 261,306 ratings — published 1931
The Red Tent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.21 — 633,440 ratings — published 1997
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cultures)
avg rating 3.96 — 327,527 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 — 276,416 ratings — published 1998
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.15 — 659,913 ratings — published 1996
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.23 — 605,974 ratings — published 2021
The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,410 ratings — published 2014
Same, Same But Different (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,065 ratings — published 2011
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.27 — 231,779 ratings — published 2003
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.34 — 184,742 ratings — published 2006
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.18 — 206,959 ratings — published 1999
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.11 — 796,163 ratings — published 1998
Digging to America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cultures)
avg rating 3.59 — 23,587 ratings — published 2006
The Island of Sea Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.32 — 170,773 ratings — published 2019
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.32 — 673,155 ratings — published 2016
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.05 — 474,400 ratings — published 2011
And the Mountains Echoed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.08 — 406,312 ratings — published 2012
The Buddha in the Attic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as cultures)
avg rating 3.71 — 64,310 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.04 — 459,829 ratings — published 1997
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.40 — 206,649 ratings — published 2007
Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as cultures)
avg rating 3.92 — 163,151 ratings — published 2009
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,212,916 ratings — published 1947
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,370,282 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 — 102,905 ratings — published 1970
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as cultures)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,758,696 ratings — published 2001
The Proudest Blue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.52 — 7,484 ratings — published 2019
Front Desk (Front Desk #1)
by (shelved 6 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.36 — 45,836 ratings — published 2018
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,877,352 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 — 117,128 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 — 3,869 ratings — published 2006
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.01 — 139,108 ratings — published 2015
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,111,625 ratings — published 1967
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.05 — 285,518 ratings — published 2007
Island of the Blue Dolphins (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as cultures)
avg rating 3.88 — 350,659 ratings — published 1960
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,922,221 ratings — published 1960
“When a person gets severe radiation poisoning, some time passes before they feel the adverse effects. Their DNA has functionally been scrambled; their cells can’t divide; the person is dead—they just don’t know it yet. Many wildly popular cultural movements are currently in this state. It may be easier to coax a caged panda to reproduce than it would be to convince a cosmopolitan progressive to raise their own kid. ”
― The Pragmatist's Guide to Governance: From high school cliques to boards, family offices, and nations: A guide to optimizing governance models
― The Pragmatist's Guide to Governance: From high school cliques to boards, family offices, and nations: A guide to optimizing governance models
“The first time the extent of this problem was obvious to me was when I was hanging out with a small group of people in which one unironically said, “I would not consider dating someone who was not regularly seeing a psychologist”—and others in the group agreed with them. It was at that point I realized that some psychologists were convincing their patients that no person could be mentally healthy without regularly visiting them. They had so thoroughly incepted a dependency in their patients that they had created a cultural identity around that dependency.”
― The Pragmatist’s Guide to Crafting Religion: A playbook for sculpting cultures that overcome demographic collapse & facilitate long-term human flourishing
― The Pragmatist’s Guide to Crafting Religion: A playbook for sculpting cultures that overcome demographic collapse & facilitate long-term human flourishing
