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"

End of Days: Ruby Ridge, the Apocalypse, and the Unmaking of America
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
The Chosen and The Damned: Native Americans and the Making of Race in the United States
Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery
The Free and the Dead: The Untold Story of the Black Seminole Chief, the Indigenous Rebel, and America's Forgotten War
Frog: And Other Essays
How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder
When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy
Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage
American Reich: A Murder in Orange County, Neo-Nazis, and a New Age of Hate
The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon
The Invite
Kissing the Sky
The Invisible Woman
The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)
The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
The Water Lies
How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder
Dominion
Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery
The Lost Heiress: A Novel
Oh William! (Amgash, #3)
Queen Esther
2 Sisters Murder Investigations (2 Sisters Detective Agency, #2)
Every Precious and Fragile Thing
Before Dorothy
The Jailhouse Lawyer (Ruby Bozarth, #2)
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
2,738 books — 3,674 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
920 books — 610 voters

The Color Purple by Alice WalkerTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonBeloved by Toni MorrisonThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XInvisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Best African American Books
1,041 books — 1,140 voters

Into the Wild by Jon KrakauerA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonWild by Cheryl StrayedEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertInto Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Ultimate Backpacking Novels
480 books — 1,145 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Help by Kathryn StockettThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
Best Southern Literature
1,363 books — 2,581 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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