The United States Of America


The Great Gatsby
The Catcher in the Rye
To Kill a Mockingbird
Of Mice and Men
Fahrenheit 451
The Bell Jar
The Old Man and the Sea
The Grapes of Wrath
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Secret History
Beloved
The Road
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
On the Road
Stoner
The Help by Kathryn Stockett11/22/63 by Stephen  KingThe Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom WolfeWild World by Peter S. RushGo Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks
Best Novels about the 1960s (fiction)
207 books — 259 voters
The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe Jungle by Upton SinclairDivergent by Veronica RothBinding Arbitration by Elizabeth Marx
Books Set in Chicago
698 books — 335 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
100 Best American Authors
754 books — 616 voters

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette WintersonFun Home by Alison BechdelTwo or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy AllisonZami by Audre LordeLeaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren  Hough
Lesbian Memoirs
290 books — 145 voters
The War on Normal People by Andrew   YangShortest Way Home by Pete ButtigiegOur Revolution by Bernie SandersJourneys with Jimmy Carter and other Adventures in Media by Barry JagodaThe Truths We Hold by Kamala Harris
2020 Election Candidates - U.S.A
67 books — 108 voters

Thomas L. Friedman
America is the greatest engine of innovation that has ever existed, and it can't be duplicated anytime soon, because it is the product of a multitude of factors: extreme freedom of thought, an emphasis on independent thinking, a steady immigration of new minds, a risk-taking culture with no stigma attached to trying and failing, a noncorrupt bureaucracy, and financial markets and a venture capital system that are unrivaled at taking new ideas and turning them into global products. ...more
Thomas L. Friedman

Hunter S. Thompson
We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world—bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts.
Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

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