I'm 25F from Montana, USA. I'm from a very nuclear white family and now living in Salt Lake. Clearly my cultural exposure is limited. I want to learn more about different cultures and their histories and find the best way to do so is usually through stories. I really enjoyed The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. I learned a lot about Afghanistan's history and culture and loved his writing style. I'm really interested in learning more about the Middle East as well as African history. But really I'm open to anything that would help me learn while reading excellent writing. Thanks for your help!
by Brave-Bandicoot3295
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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan
The Return of Faraz Ali
Half of a Yellow Sun
How to get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
The Museum of Failures
Homegoing
Apeirogon
Salt Houses
Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe.
*The Book of Disappearance* by Ibtisam Azim (translated by Sinan Antoon)
*Dearborn: Stories* by Ghassan Zeineddine
anything by Rabih Alahmeddine, but especially *The Hakawati* and *The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (And His Mother)*
nonfiction + religious studies, excellently written: *Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God: Retracing the Ramayana* by Jonah Blank
*The darker nations* by Vijay Prashad
*How Europe underdeveloped Africa* by Walter Rodney
*The hundred years’ war on Palestine* by Rashid Khalidi
Kim
I read *A Different Mirror* by Ronald Takaki in college and it was a good view into nonwhite US history. It’s broken into sections and I felt like it was a pretty easy read. Didn’t feel too academic (in the “bad way”)