American

This genre tag marks books that are placed in America, American classics, written by American authors, or about America.

The United States of America (USA), commonly referred to as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major territories and various possessions.

Spoiled Milk
Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age
Nobody's Baby (Dorothy Gentleman, #2)
Cave Mountain: A Disappearance and a Reckoning in the Ozarks
The Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier
Brawler
End of Days: Ruby Ridge, the Apocalypse, and the Unmaking of America
Evil Genius
American Struggle: Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union: An Anthology
The Mixed Marriage Project: A Memoir of Love, Race, and Family
Throne of Grace: A Mountain Man, an Epic Adventure, and the Bloody Conquest of the American West
Eradication: A Fable
Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery
The Chosen and The Damned: Native Americans and the Making of Race in the United States
Frog: And Other Essays
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The Invisible Woman
Brawler
The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
The Water Lies
Kissing the Sky
The Final Score
Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery
Dominion
Oh William! (Amgash, #3)
Queen Esther
The Lost Heiress: A Novel
The Jailhouse Lawyer (Ruby Bozarth, #2)
Among Friends
Crossroads
The Goldfinch by Donna TarttAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Invention of Wings by Sue Monk KiddThe Circle by Dave EggersThe Bone Clocks by David  Mitchell
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2014
167 books — 697 voters
Snow Falling on Cedars by David GutersonSometimes a Great Notion by Ken KeseyThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman AlexieWild by Cheryl StrayedHotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
Pacific Northwest Books
924 books — 611 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Best Feminist Books
2,799 books — 3,748 voters
Please Kill Me by Legs McNeilJust Kids by Patti SmithChronicles, Volume One by Bob DylanLife by Keith RichardsOur Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azerrad
Best Non Fiction About Music
1,466 books — 1,382 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Help by Kathryn StockettThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Best Southern Books
836 books — 748 voters
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman AlexieThe Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman AlexieLove Medicine by Louise ErdrichCeremony by Leslie Marmon SilkoReservation Blues by Sherman Alexie
Native American Fiction
840 books — 642 voters

The Great Gatsby
The Catcher in the Rye
To Kill a Mockingbird
Of Mice and Men
The Old Man and the Sea
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Grapes of Wrath

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