Cultural

Cultural refers to books that depict a place or time and its culture.

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You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live
Pure Innocent Fun: Essays
The World After Gaza: A Short History
When Culture Hates You: Persevering for the Common Good as Christians in a Hostile Public Square
Homeseeking
Death of the Author
Mask of the Deer Woman
Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne
Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist
Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything
Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World
City of Night Birds
You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip
The Anthropologists
Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live
The Bird Hotel
Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
The Official Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour Book
The Great Hippopotamus Hotel (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #25)
White Mulberry
Pure Innocent Fun: Essays
The Wrong Wife (Golden Knights #1)
Mask of the Deer Woman
The Storyteller of Casablanca
The Persians
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Immigrant Voices (fiction)
371 books — 232 voters
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2023 YA/MG Books With POC Leads
217 books — 203 voters

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Best Traveling Vicariously
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The Kite Runner
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Memoirs of a Geisha
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Pachinko
The Joy Luck Club
Esperanza Rising
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Americanah
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Between the World and Me

Sigmund Freud
It sounds like a fairy-tale, but not only that; this story of what man by his science and practical inventions has achieved on this earth, where he first appeared as a weakly member of the animal kingdom, and on which each individual of his species must ever again appear as a helpless infant... is a direct fulfilment of all, or of most, of the dearest wishes in his fairy-tales. All these possessions he has acquired through culture. Long ago he formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omnisc ...more
Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

Naomi Wolf
Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.
Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

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