The Americas

Books in this genre are set in or about the Americas.

The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature
Cuba: An American History
Disunited Nations: Succeeding in a World Where No One Gets Along
Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest
Fear Is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeance
Magdalena: River of Dreams
Fresh Dirt From the Grave
Voyage of Mercy: The USS Jamestown, the Irish Famine, and the Remarkable Story of America's First Humanitarian Mission
The Last Emperor of Mexico: The Dramatic Story of the Habsburg Archduke Who Created a Kingdom in the New World
A Brutal Reckoning: Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South
Where There Was Fire
Season of the Swamp
The Last Taxi Driver
American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
To Kill a Mockingbird
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
The Great Gatsby
Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
Of Mice and Men
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
Between the World and Me
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Fur, Fortune, and Empire by Eric Jay DolinThe Potato by Larry ZuckermanSalt by Mark KurlanskyA Naked View of the Trans-Pacific Partnership by Timothy BarnesThe Archaeology of the North American Fur Trade by Michael S. Nassaney
Trade and Resources
143 books — 13 voters

The Three-Body Problem by Liu CixinBinti by Nnedi OkoraforThe Windup Girl by Paolo BacigalupiLagoon by Nnedi OkoraforBattle Royale by Koushun Takami
Non US-Centric Science Fiction
83 books — 31 voters
The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas EvansThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe House of the Scorpion by Nancy FarmerAl Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer CholdenkoKeeper by Mal Peet
JPGS Y10 RAW Americas - Fiction
34 books — 3 voters

Conspiracy U by Scott A. ShayForty-Ninth by Boris PronskyOn The Trail of Delusion by Fred LitwinBad Love Tigers by Kevin L. ScheweThe Da Vinci Code by Dan    Brown
Best Conspiracy Theories Books
22 books — 21 voters

Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.
*Providence* The United States Has a specific and certain purpose On Earth. Each American Has a specific and certain purpose In America. God favors our endeavors. And we favor God. This, my brother, George Washington Referred to as providence.
Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr., The Pursuit of Happiness: A Book of Poems Honoring Our American Values

Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.
Being Bahamian, Panamanian and US American allows me to have a very unique perspective on the Americas, on the world, and on global commerce. I think big and I think holistically. And I've embedded that way of thinking into Mayflower-Plymouth. ...more
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