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.

Carrying
The Rush: California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World
Samantha: The Next Chapter
The American Way of Killing: The Invention of an Epidemic
Ply
Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made
End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World
The Radiance
The Vanishing Family: Love, Fate, and the Quest to End Dementia
Dodge City
An Unexpected Life: A Memoir
American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump
How to Eat an Elephant: One Voter at a Time
The Silent Women
The Central Fire of the Iroquois: A Five-Hundred-Year History of the Onondaga Nation
Dodge City
Samantha: The Next Chapter
Switzy
Transcription
The Country Road Murders
Under the Falls
In the Killer's Sight (Kate Marino, #1)
Cool Machine (The Harlem Trilogy, #3)
An Unexpected Life: A Memoir
The Invisible Woman
Contrapposto
Helen of Nowhere
Ply
Chasing the Clouds Away
Every Precious and Fragile Thing
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty  SmithBreakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman CapoteExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Tales of New York City
1,769 books — 1,353 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Great American Novel
703 books — 1,116 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
2,247 books — 2,086 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelFicciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Latin American Fiction
905 books — 1,225 voters

The Goldfinch by Donna TarttAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Invention of Wings by Sue Monk KiddThe Circle by Dave EggersThe Bone Clocks by David  Mitchell
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2014
165 books — 695 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

Kiera Cass
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― Kiera Cass, The Selection

Kiera Cass
“ I should have known that if any girl was going to disobey an order, it would be you. ”
― Kiera Cass, The Selection

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