American Fiction

Fiction with an American setting.

The Rest of Our Lives
Beartooth
Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
The Netanyahus
The Horse
Kick the Latch
Groundskeeping
Zorrie
Lazarus Man
The Uncharted Flight of Olivia West
Tremor
Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo
Hangman
Mecca
American Spirits
The Great Gatsby
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Catcher in the Rye
Of Mice and Men
The Old Man and the Sea
The Grapes of Wrath
The Road
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
East of Eden
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
On the Road
The Sun Also Rises
The Scarlet Letter
Where the Crawdads Sing
The Curse of Maggie by Tom       AndersonThe Unreformed Kingdom by Tom       AndersonNot An English Word by Tom       AndersonFight And Be Right by Ed ThomasShuffling The Deck by Jack Tindale
Sea Lion Press
107 books — 6 voters

Two Rivers by Zoe SaadiaRide the Wind by Lucia St. Clair RobsonAt Road's End by Zoe SaadiaPanther in the Sky by James Alexander ThomThe Peacekeeper by Zoe Saadia
Native American Historical Fiction
278 books — 275 voters
U Got to Have U Some Fun by Andrew HarklessThe World According to Garp by John IrvingDon't Stop the Carnival by Herman WoukStoner by John  WilliamsRestore your Dreamland  by Yasser Negm
Books About The Everyman
8 books — 5 voters

Beebo Brinker by Ann BannonOdd Girl Out by Ann BannonI Am a Woman by Ann BannonLesbian Pulp Fiction by Katherine V. ForrestWomen's Barracks by Tereska Torrès
Lesbian pulp fiction
63 books — 21 voters


Percival Everett
You have a notion, like Raynal, of natural liberties, and we all have them by virtue of our being human. But when those liberties are put under societal and cultural pressure, they become civil liberties, and those are contingent on hierarchy and situation. Am I close?" Voltaire was scribbling on paper. "That was good, that was good. Say all of that again. ...more
Percival Everett, James

Shirley Jackson
All of the village was of a piece, a time, and a style; it was as though the people needed the ugliness of the village, and fed on it. The houses and the stores seemed to have been set up in contemptuous haste to provide shelter for the drab and the unpleasant, and the Rochester house and the Blackwood house and even the town hall had been brought here perhaps accidentally from some far lovely country where people lived with grace. Perhaps the fine houses had been captured—perhaps as punishment ...more
Shirley Jackson

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