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Cultural Books
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The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 318 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.34 — 3,188,600 ratings — published 2003
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 297 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,017,068 ratings — published 1997
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 251 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,556,278 ratings — published 2007
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 209 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.33 — 488,665 ratings — published 2017
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 198 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.97 — 687,627 ratings — published 1989
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 182 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.32 — 376,418 ratings — published 2013
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 173 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.09 — 374,759 ratings — published 2005
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 156 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.47 — 350,393 ratings — published 2016
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 140 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.73 — 377,729 ratings — published 1958
The Poisonwood Bible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 131 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.10 — 750,917 ratings — published 1998
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.96 — 301,860 ratings — published 1997
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.27 — 696,871 ratings — published 1982
Men and Monsters (Nightfall, #2)
by (shelved 114 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.40 — 550 ratings — published 2018
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,642,336 ratings — published 2001
The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.01 — 272,119 ratings — published 2003
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.34 — 162,206 ratings — published 2006
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.49 — 710,553 ratings — published 2016
The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 110 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.19 — 183,421 ratings — published 2020
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.01 — 619,013 ratings — published 1987
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.09 — 859,217 ratings — published 1878
Cutting for Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.32 — 393,614 ratings — published 2009
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.47 — 2,803,130 ratings — published 2009
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.98 — 352,926 ratings — published 1937
Crazy Rich Asians (Crazy Rich Asians, #1)
by (shelved 101 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.91 — 499,905 ratings — published 2013
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.69 — 292,660 ratings — published 2016
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 97 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.28 — 107,520 ratings — published 2017
A Fine Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.37 — 150,897 ratings — published 1995
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.33 — 564,926 ratings — published 2016
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.06 — 272,638 ratings — published 2007
And the Mountains Echoed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.07 — 375,714 ratings — published 2012
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
by (shelved 93 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.00 — 251,431 ratings — published 1931
A Tale for the Time Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.06 — 123,157 ratings — published 2013
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.27 — 923,988 ratings — published 1866
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.17 — 195,481 ratings — published 1999
Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls, #1)
by (shelved 89 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.91 — 156,123 ratings — published 2009
The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)
by (shelved 86 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.47 — 917,312 ratings — published 2017
The Girl with the Louding Voice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.43 — 153,188 ratings — published 2020
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.28 — 114,280 ratings — published 1991
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.15 — 583,217 ratings — published 2012
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.18 — 123,096 ratings — published 2003
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.13 — 479,484 ratings — published 2002
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 82 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,604,426 ratings — published 2005
The Island of Sea Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.31 — 126,176 ratings — published 2019
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.96 — 443,406 ratings — published 1987
There There (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.98 — 188,944 ratings — published 2018
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.12 — 986,471 ratings — published 1967
Shantaram (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.27 — 219,242 ratings — published 2003
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.40 — 336,661 ratings — published 2015
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as cultural)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,712,559 ratings — published 2014
The White Tiger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as cultural)
avg rating 3.77 — 193,482 ratings — published 2008
“Thatched huts of mud sit humped in rows. Between the rows, a stagnant stream of sewage stews like thick soup bubbling in the clotted heat. Mosquitoes swarm. Garbage rots. Parvati gathers her sari about her and steps as lightly as she can down this gutter of filth. The boy stops outside one of the huts. Parvati and Sunil push aside the sacking that is over the doorway, stoop and step down onto a mud floor. Inside, there is no window, no light and no air. Only heat. Parvati puts her hand to her long elegant throat. Above her, one end of the roof is sagging as if about to collapse.
‘Bustee, very good,’ says the boy smiling.”
― Karna's Wheel
‘Bustee, very good,’ says the boy smiling.”
― Karna's Wheel
“In Italia la linea più breve fra due punti è l’arabesco.”
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