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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 328 times as culture)
avg rating 4.16 — 36,731 ratings — published 1985
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 241 times as culture)
avg rating 3.84 — 493,546 ratings — published 2016
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 218 times as culture)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,219,452 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 195 times as culture)
avg rating 4.04 — 448,616 ratings — published 1997
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 193 times as culture)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,428,674 ratings — published 2003
The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 174 times as culture)
avg rating 4.33 — 28,525 ratings — published 2014
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 161 times as culture)
avg rating 4.40 — 359,582 ratings — published 2015
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 157 times as culture)
avg rating 4.01 — 889,379 ratings — published 2005
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 154 times as culture)
avg rating 4.19 — 851,799 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 — 847,402 ratings — published 2000
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 — 5,980 ratings — published 2020
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 139 times as culture)
avg rating 4.23 — 54,201 ratings — published 2018
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as culture)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,090,940 ratings — published 1997
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as culture)
avg rating 4.08 — 468,521 ratings — published 2012
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 132 times as culture)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,698,864 ratings — published 2007
The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as culture)
avg rating 4.25 — 34,336 ratings — published 2017
Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)
by (shelved 115 times as culture)
avg rating 3.85 — 98,778 ratings — published 1987
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as culture)
avg rating 4.20 — 88,014 ratings — published 1997
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as culture)
avg rating 4.49 — 786,174 ratings — published 2016
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as culture)
avg rating 4.13 — 28,846 ratings — published 1978
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as culture)
avg rating 4.53 — 157,641 ratings — published 2020
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 111 times as culture)
avg rating 3.74 — 405,816 ratings — published 1958
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as culture)
avg rating 4.33 — 148,450 ratings — published 2024
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as culture)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,294,807 ratings — published 1949
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as culture)
avg rating 3.74 — 72,370 ratings — published 2003
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 105 times as culture)
avg rating 4.16 — 170,790 ratings — published 2018
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 104 times as culture)
avg rating 4.19 — 281,668 ratings — published 2015
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as culture)
avg rating 4.31 — 405,222 ratings — published 2013
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as culture)
avg rating 4.20 — 64,157 ratings — published 2012
The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
by (shelved 99 times as culture)
avg rating 4.28 — 79,000 ratings — published 1988
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 97 times as culture)
avg rating 4.34 — 595,369 ratings — published 2017
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as culture)
avg rating 4.51 — 162,721 ratings — published 2013
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as culture)
avg rating 3.75 — 206,345 ratings — published 2001
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as culture)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,798,020 ratings — published 2018
The Closing of the American Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as culture)
avg rating 3.76 — 5,899 ratings — published 1987
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as culture)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,079 ratings — published 1992
Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)
by (shelved 93 times as culture)
avg rating 4.16 — 51,694 ratings — published 1990
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as culture)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,742,730 ratings — published 1960
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as culture)
avg rating 4.19 — 209,349 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 — 6,487 ratings — published 2017
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as culture)
avg rating 4.36 — 118,657 ratings — published 2019
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as culture)
avg rating 4.20 — 16,954 ratings — published 2019
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as culture)
avg rating 3.93 — 74,118 ratings — published 2004
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as culture)
avg rating 4.00 — 331,693 ratings — published 2019
Excession (Culture #5)
by (shelved 83 times as culture)
avg rating 4.20 — 33,628 ratings — published 1996
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as culture)
avg rating 3.89 — 32,500 ratings — published 2010
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 — 14,300 ratings — published 1975
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as culture)
avg rating 4.03 — 77,310 ratings — published 2019
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as culture)
avg rating 3.97 — 705,350 ratings — published 1989
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as culture)
avg rating 4.24 — 568,144 ratings — published 2021
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
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“The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.”
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