Cultures


The Kite Runner
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Memoirs of a Geisha
Pachinko
Americanah
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
The Joy Luck Club
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Homegoing
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
The Final Empire by Brandon SandersonThe Way of Kings by Brandon SandersonThe Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. TolkienThe Name of the Wind by Patrick RothfussA Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Magical Lands
332 books — 194 voters

The Mote in God's Eye by Larry NivenThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsEnder’s Game by Orson Scott CardA Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor VingeThe War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
Best Aliens
431 books — 337 voters

History of Beauty by Umberto EcoWays of Seeing by John BergerBrunelleschi's Dome by Ross KingLeonardo da Vinci by Leonardo da VinciA History of Illuminated Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel
The World History of Art
412 books — 140 voters

Simone Collins
People experience anger when their expectations around how they should be treated don’t align with their actual treatment (or when they expect a thing to happen based on some series of actions and it does not happen).
Simone Collins, The Pragmatist’s Guide to Crafting Religion: A playbook for sculpting cultures that overcome demographic collapse & facilitate long-term human flourishing

Carl Sagan
We have held the peculiar notion that a person or society that is a little different from us, whoever we are, is somehow strange or bizarre, to be distrusted or loathed. Think of the negative connotations of words like alien or outlandish. And yet the monuments and cultures of each of our civilizations merely represent different ways of being human. An extraterrestrial visitor, looking at the differences among human beings and their societies, would find those differences trivial compared to t ...more
Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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