The Americas

Books in this genre are set in or about the Americas.

The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature
Cuba: An American History
Disunited Nations: Succeeding in a World Where No One Gets Along
Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest
Fear Is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeance
Magdalena: River of Dreams
Fresh Dirt From the Grave
Voyage of Mercy: The USS Jamestown, the Irish Famine, and the Remarkable Story of America's First Humanitarian Mission
The Last Emperor of Mexico: The Dramatic Story of the Habsburg Archduke Who Created a Kingdom in the New World
A Brutal Reckoning: Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South
Where There Was Fire
Season of the Swamp
The Last Taxi Driver
American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
To Kill a Mockingbird
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
The Great Gatsby
Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
Of Mice and Men
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
Between the World and Me
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Fur, Fortune, and Empire by Eric Jay DolinThe Potato by Larry ZuckermanSalt by Mark KurlanskyConquerors by Roger CrowleyThe Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan
Trade and Resources
147 books — 14 voters

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City of Bones by Cassandra ClareThe Iron King by Julie KagawaBeastly by Alex FlinnThe Iron Daughter by Julie KagawaThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Best Books Read in 2010
151 books — 27 voters

Abel Posse
Les predijo el futuro que se avecinaba con autoridad de visionario profesional: —¡Oh, son seres maravillosos, los que llegan! Hijos de la mutación. ¡Generosos! Una infinita bondad los desgarra: se quitarán el pan de la boca para saciar el hambre de nuestros hijos. Sé que su dios humano les manda amar al otro como a sí mismo. Serán incapaces de traernos muerte: detestan la guerra. Respetarán nuestras mujeres, porque su dios —infinitamente benigno— les manda no desear otra mujer que no sea la prop ...more
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Rita Williams-Garcia
Imagine. To have your father sitting down eating dinner or shining his shoes while watching TV. To have your front door blown off its hinges and the police rush in. To see your father in handcuffs, led away.
Rita Williams-Garcia, One Crazy Summer

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