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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as americas)
avg rating 4.05 — 95,449 ratings — published 2005
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as americas)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,108,301 ratings — published 1967
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as americas)
avg rating 4.26 — 102,666 ratings — published 1970
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as americas)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,904,815 ratings — published 1960
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as americas)
avg rating 4.09 — 266,750 ratings — published 1980
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as americas)
avg rating 4.12 — 21,038 ratings — published 2011
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as americas)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,934,715 ratings — published 1925
Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as americas)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,445 ratings — published 2019
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as americas)
avg rating 4.31 — 27,790 ratings — published 1971
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as americas)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,844,810 ratings — published 1937
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as americas)
avg rating 3.90 — 110,975 ratings — published 2009
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as americas)
avg rating 4.25 — 67,700 ratings — published 2010
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as americas)
avg rating 4.46 — 21,442 ratings — published 2019
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as americas)
avg rating 4.40 — 367,259 ratings — published 2015
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as americas)
avg rating 4.48 — 117,303 ratings — published 2010
The Lost City of the Monkey God (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as americas)
avg rating 3.93 — 62,909 ratings — published 2017
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as americas)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,434,176 ratings — published 1985
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as americas)
avg rating 4.30 — 321,217 ratings — published 1982
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as americas)
avg rating 3.94 — 548,066 ratings — published 1985
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as americas)
avg rating 4.51 — 174,088 ratings — published 2013
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as americas)
avg rating 4.03 — 996,648 ratings — published 1939
The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as americas)
avg rating 4.40 — 24,520 ratings — published 1986
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 14 times as americas)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,642,218 ratings — published 2018
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as americas)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,902,835 ratings — published 1951
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as americas)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,228,410 ratings — published 1963
The Last Days of the Incas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as americas)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,192 ratings — published 2007
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as americas)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,027,663 ratings — published 2009
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as americas)
avg rating 3.66 — 443,908 ratings — published 2020
The Mueller Report (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as americas)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,104 ratings — published 2019
Cuba: An American History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as americas)
avg rating 4.46 — 5,571 ratings — published 2021
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as americas)
avg rating 4.14 — 448,211 ratings — published 2017
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
by (shelved 13 times as americas)
avg rating 4.37 — 20,598 ratings — published 2014
Like Water for Chocolate (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as americas)
avg rating 3.95 — 395,580 ratings — published 1989
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as americas)
avg rating 4.06 — 446,128 ratings — published 2016
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as americas)
avg rating 4.28 — 753,774 ratings — published 1982
In Patagonia (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as americas)
avg rating 3.64 — 19,321 ratings — published 1977
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as americas)
avg rating 4.13 — 162,137 ratings — published 2015
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as americas)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,122,282 ratings — published 2017
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as americas)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,868,868 ratings — published 2018
Bolívar: American Liberator (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as americas)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,659 ratings — published 2013
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as americas)
avg rating 4.20 — 14,869 ratings — published 2011
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Vintage International)
by (shelved 12 times as americas)
avg rating 3.97 — 237,239 ratings — published 1981
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as americas)
avg rating 3.89 — 278,966 ratings — published 2007
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as americas)
avg rating 4.12 — 857,617 ratings — published 2020
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as americas)
avg rating 3.98 — 491,967 ratings — published 1987
The Feast of the Goat (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as americas)
avg rating 4.35 — 43,033 ratings — published 2000
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as americas)
avg rating 4.44 — 139,274 ratings — published 1992
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as americas)
avg rating 4.39 — 7,551 ratings — published 1938
History of Bourbon (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 10 times as americas)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,845 ratings — published 2019
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as americas)
avg rating 3.99 — 387,439 ratings — published 1937
“Komandoo Nicolas Kahima Kankiriho ('Kahima the Warrior') alizaliwa katika Wilaya ya Bushenyi, Ankole, kusini-magharibi mwa Uganda, Julai 24, 1954, mtoto wa tano kuzaliwa, katika familia ya watoto sita ya Nicodemas Kankiriho; mzee wa heshima wa Wabaima, aliyekuwa akisifika sana kwa uchungaji (wa mifugo) na msisitizo mkali wa ukiristo kwa watoto wake wote; hasa Kahima na Yebare, binti yake wa pekee, aliyekuwa wa mwisho kuzaliwa.
Kahima (futi 6 inchi 3 aliyekuwa akiongea Kinyankole, Kiswahili, Kiingereza na Kihispania kwa ufasaha), baada ya kutoka Uganda – kwa mafunzo ya mwanzo ya ukomandoo ya Kiisraeli – alikwenda Urusi na Korea ya Kaskazini ambako aliongeza ujuzi hadi kiwango cha juu kabisa; kabla ya kwenda Amerika ya Kusini, kama askari wa msituni wa vyama vya kisiasa visivyo rasmi vya magorila wa Kolombia.
Akiwa Kolombia, Kahima alikutana na Eduardo Chapa de Christopher (kiongozi wa zamani wa Kateli ya Diablos de Amazonas, Mashetani wa Amazoni, iliyokuwa ikivilinda vyama vya kisiasa vya magorila vya Americas) ambaye alimwajiri kama mlinzi binafsi na baadaye kama mlinzi binafsi wa Carlos Pulecio Alcántara – kiongozi wa kwanza wa Kateli ya Kolonia Santita. Alcántara alipouwawa, Kahima alihamia kwa Panthera Tigrisi – Kiongozi Mkuu wa Kolonia Santita.”
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Kahima (futi 6 inchi 3 aliyekuwa akiongea Kinyankole, Kiswahili, Kiingereza na Kihispania kwa ufasaha), baada ya kutoka Uganda – kwa mafunzo ya mwanzo ya ukomandoo ya Kiisraeli – alikwenda Urusi na Korea ya Kaskazini ambako aliongeza ujuzi hadi kiwango cha juu kabisa; kabla ya kwenda Amerika ya Kusini, kama askari wa msituni wa vyama vya kisiasa visivyo rasmi vya magorila wa Kolombia.
Akiwa Kolombia, Kahima alikutana na Eduardo Chapa de Christopher (kiongozi wa zamani wa Kateli ya Diablos de Amazonas, Mashetani wa Amazoni, iliyokuwa ikivilinda vyama vya kisiasa vya magorila vya Americas) ambaye alimwajiri kama mlinzi binafsi na baadaye kama mlinzi binafsi wa Carlos Pulecio Alcántara – kiongozi wa kwanza wa Kateli ya Kolonia Santita. Alcántara alipouwawa, Kahima alihamia kwa Panthera Tigrisi – Kiongozi Mkuu wa Kolonia Santita.”
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“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 propia. (En esto son particularmente rigurosos.) Adoran un libro escrito por sabios y poetas. El dios que adoran es un hombrecillo golpeado, torturado, hasta ser puesto a muerte por unos militares. ¡Con el débil se identifican! ¡Al débil aman! »Digo, anuncio, que odian la guerra, la violencia, la violación. ¿Cuál es su fuerza?, os preguntaréis, y yo digo: la bondad y el amor. Ésa es su fuerza.”
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—¡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 propia. (En esto son particularmente rigurosos.) Adoran un libro escrito por sabios y poetas. El dios que adoran es un hombrecillo golpeado, torturado, hasta ser puesto a muerte por unos militares. ¡Con el débil se identifican! ¡Al débil aman! »Digo, anuncio, que odian la guerra, la violencia, la violación. ¿Cuál es su fuerza?, os preguntaréis, y yo digo: la bondad y el amor. Ésa es su fuerza.”
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