Worldbuilder's Book Club 2023 - hosted by quartzen

Culture and Religion
Choose a book about cultural or religious practice contemporary or historical, including books about religion,  mythology, cultural norms, manners, social class, or other related topics.
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City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky

City of Last Chances

The Tyrant Philosophers #1

Adrian Tchaikovsky

20 hours, 7 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction fantasy adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
Shadow Culture: Psychology and Spirituality in America by Eugene Taylor

Shadow Culture: Psychology and Spirituality in America

Eugene Taylor

320 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology religion informative medium-paced
Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World by Tim Whitmarsh

Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World

Tim Whitmarsh

304 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty

From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

Caitlin Doughty

5 hours, 37 minutes • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction science travel informative reflective medium-paced
Satanic Panic: The Creation of a Contemporary Legend by Jeffrey S. Victor

Satanic Panic: The Creation of a Contemporary Legend

Jeffrey S. Victor

436 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology religion dark informative slow-paced
Seduction: A History From the Enlightenment to the Present by Clement Knox

Seduction: A History From the Enlightenment to the Present

Clement Knox

400 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States by Samantha Allen

Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States

Samantha Allen

321 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir hopeful informative reflective medium-paced
Black: The History of a Color by Michel Pastoureau

Black: The History of a Color

Histoire d'une couleur #2

Michel Pastoureau

210 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction art history informative slow-paced
A World Full of Gods: An Inquiry Into Polytheism by John Michael Greer

A World Full of Gods: An Inquiry Into Polytheism

John Michael Greer

218 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture by Marvin Harris

Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture

Marvin Harris

288 pages • first pub 1974 (editions)

nonfiction history sociology informative slow-paced