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.

Family of Spies
Queen Esther
Second Chance Romance (Harlot's Bay, #2)
Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon—The Untold Story
The American Revolution: An Intimate History
The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
Mexico: A 500-Year History
1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in History--and How It Shattered a Nation
Crafting for Sinners
Tom's Crossing
Shadow Ticket
Herculine
Minor Black Figures
Your Name Here
The Forsaken and the Fated (The Hollow and the Haunted, #2)
The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)
The Doorman
The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
Queen Esther
The Rest of Our Lives
Vera, or Faith
The Sisters
Interior Chinatown
Oh William! (Amgash, #3)
Before Dorothy
People Like Us
Crossroads
Every Precious and Fragile Thing
The JFK Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy―and Why it Failed
2 Sisters Murder Investigations (2 Sisters Detective Agency, #2)
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
473 books — 1,137 voters
The Constitution of the United States of America by Founding FathersThe Declaration of Independence / The Constitution of the Uni... by Founding FathersThe Federalist Papers by Alexander HamiltonA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnCollected Writings by Thomas Paine
Best Books to Become an Informed Voter
935 books — 1,100 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
2,513 books — 3,516 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
913 books — 610 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
2,122 books — 1,849 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

H.L. Mencken
In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic. But I do not repine, for I am a subject of it only by force of arms.
H.L. Mencken

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