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Cultural Books
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The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 314 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,425,660 ratings — published 2003
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 298 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,089,991 ratings — published 1997
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 256 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,696,987 ratings — published 2007
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 216 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.34 — 593,783 ratings — published 2017
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 193 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.97 — 705,141 ratings — published 1989
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 182 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.31 — 404,761 ratings — published 2013
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 171 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.09 — 383,935 ratings — published 2005
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 156 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.47 — 390,859 ratings — published 2016
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 139 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.74 — 405,469 ratings — published 1958
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.11 — 783,783 ratings — published 1998
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.96 — 319,083 ratings — published 1997
The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 121 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.18 — 209,463 ratings — published 2020
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.28 — 741,360 ratings — published 1982
The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.02 — 281,156 ratings — published 2003
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.99 — 706,286 ratings — published 1987
Men and Monsters (Nightfall, #2)
by (shelved 112 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.40 — 556 ratings — published 2018
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.49 — 785,433 ratings — published 2016
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,734,878 ratings — published 2001
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.34 — 178,508 ratings — published 2006
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.99 — 380,036 ratings — published 1937
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.10 — 913,075 ratings — published 1878
Cutting for Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.33 — 420,077 ratings — published 2009
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.47 — 2,976,759 ratings — published 2009
And the Mountains Echoed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.08 — 397,964 ratings — published 2012
Crazy Rich Asians (Crazy Rich Asians, #1)
by (shelved 99 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.91 — 539,915 ratings — published 2013
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.68 — 355,754 ratings — published 2016
A Fine Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.38 — 157,738 ratings — published 1995
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 97 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.29 — 122,391 ratings — published 2017
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.32 — 644,400 ratings — published 2016
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
by (shelved 96 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.01 — 258,608 ratings — published 1931
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.18 — 203,965 ratings — published 1999
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,038,804 ratings — published 1866
A Tale for the Time Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.06 — 132,660 ratings — published 2013
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.06 — 282,343 ratings — published 2007
Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls, #1)
by (shelved 86 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.92 — 161,328 ratings — published 2009
The Island of Sea Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.32 — 158,544 ratings — published 2019
There There (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.98 — 216,796 ratings — published 2018
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.46 — 993,000 ratings — published 2017
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.30 — 121,176 ratings — published 1991
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 83 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,820,931 ratings — published 2005
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,079,583 ratings — published 1967
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.24 — 566,656 ratings — published 2021
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.12 — 534,081 ratings — published 2002
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.18 — 138,780 ratings — published 2003
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.13 — 291,360 ratings — published 1970
Shantaram (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.28 — 234,932 ratings — published 2003
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 77 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.97 — 480,441 ratings — published 1987
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,922,565 ratings — published 2014
The Girl with the Louding Voice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.42 — 168,978 ratings — published 2020
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.40 — 359,328 ratings — published 2015
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
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“When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].”
― The Woman Destroyed
― The Woman Destroyed
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