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.

New Releases Tagged "American"

Carrying
The Rush: California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World
Samantha: The Next Chapter
The American Way of Killing: The Invention of an Epidemic
Ply
Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made
End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World
The Radiance
The Vanishing Family: Love, Fate, and the Quest to End Dementia
Dodge City
An Unexpected Life: A Memoir
American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump
The Silent Women
The Central Fire of the Iroquois: A Five-Hundred-Year History of the Onondaga Nation
Dodge City
Samantha: The Next Chapter
Switzy
Transcription
The Country Road Murders
Under the Falls
In the Killer's Sight (Kate Marino, #1)
Cool Machine (The Harlem Trilogy, #3)
An Unexpected Life: A Memoir
The Invisible Woman
Contrapposto
Helen of Nowhere
Ply
Chasing the Clouds Away
Every Precious and Fragile Thing
The Color Purple by Alice WalkerTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonBeloved by Toni MorrisonThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XBorn To Rise by Lorna  Blake
Best African American Books
1,100 books — 1,367 voters
The New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Books White People Need to Read
1,524 books — 1,956 voters

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertA Walk in the Woods by Bill  BrysonBlood River by Tim ButcherThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferInto the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Best Traveling Vicariously
2,246 books — 2,083 voters
John Adams by David McCulloughThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer1776 by David McCulloughThe Guns of August by Barbara W. TuchmanTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Best History Books
4,141 books — 4,807 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
3,076 books — 4,521 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Great American Novel
703 books — 1,116 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

Kiera Cass
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― Kiera Cass, The Elite

Bill Hicks
“ If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you about American culture? Well, look at the drugs we use. Except for pharmaceutical poison, there are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in. ”
― Bill Hicks

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