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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as american-experience)
avg rating 3.84 — 506,958 ratings — published 2016
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as american-experience)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,934,952 ratings — published 1960
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 5,963,503 ratings — published 1925
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as american-experience)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,341,261 ratings — published 1885
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as american-experience)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,809 ratings — published 2019
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as american-experience)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,883,467 ratings — published 2018
Revolutionary Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as american-experience)
avg rating 3.93 — 93,879 ratings — published 1961
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as american-experience)
avg rating 3.89 — 279,605 ratings — published 2007
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 763,855 ratings — published 2003
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 243,642 ratings — published 1852
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as american-experience)
avg rating 3.97 — 711,315 ratings — published 1989
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 3 times as american-experience)
avg rating 4.16 — 172,678 ratings — published 2018
American Pastoral (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as american-experience)
avg rating 3.95 — 88,883 ratings — published 1997
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 3 times as american-experience)
avg rating 4.55 — 123,465 ratings — published 1963
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as american-experience)
avg rating 4.37 — 293,099 ratings — published 1965
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as american-experience)
avg rating 4.06 — 448,328 ratings — published 2016
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as american-experience)
avg rating 4.31 — 415,601 ratings — published 2013
The Art of Fielding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as american-experience)
avg rating 3.99 — 116,109 ratings — published 2011
The Jungle (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as american-experience)
avg rating 3.78 — 155,343 ratings — published 1906
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as american-experience)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,372,284 ratings — published 2005
The Color Purple (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 756,924 ratings — published 1982
The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as american-experience)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,357,338 ratings — published 2001
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as american-experience)
avg rating 4.30 — 516,297 ratings — published 1943
The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as american-experience)
avg rating 4.33 — 92,345 ratings — published 1974
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as american-experience)
avg rating 4.04 — 665,436 ratings — published 2002
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as american-experience)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,917,306 ratings — published 1951
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as american-experience)
avg rating 3.99 — 389,652 ratings — published 1937
The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as american-experience)
avg rating 4.02 — 285,133 ratings — published 2003
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as american-experience)
avg rating 4.46 — 816,808 ratings — published 2022
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as american-experience)
avg rating 4.11 — 198,970 ratings — published 2018
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as american-experience)
avg rating 4.10 — 163,756 ratings — published 2020
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as american-experience)
avg rating 4.12 — 862,424 ratings — published 2020
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as american-experience)
avg rating 4.37 — 20,788 ratings — published 2014
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as american-experience)
avg rating 4.47 — 114,907 ratings — published 2016
Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as american-experience)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,124 ratings — published 2019
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as american-experience)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,598 ratings — published 1993
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as american-experience)
avg rating 4.46 — 21,862 ratings — published 2019
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as american-experience)
avg rating 4.44 — 46,549 ratings — published 2017
The Nix (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as american-experience)
avg rating 4.08 — 87,168 ratings — published 2016
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as american-experience)
avg rating 4.44 — 650,603 ratings — published 1952
The Water Dancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as american-experience)
avg rating 4.06 — 119,710 ratings — published 2019
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as american-experience)
avg rating 4.62 — 264,114 ratings — published 2014
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as american-experience)
avg rating 4.53 — 38,643 ratings — published 2016
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as american-experience)
avg rating 4.07 — 62,311 ratings — published 2005
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.60 — 31,855 ratings — published 1987
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as american-experience)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,240,321 ratings — published 1963
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as american-experience)
avg rating 4.25 — 311,830 ratings — published 2019
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as american-experience)
avg rating 3.82 — 27,970 ratings — published 2019
There There (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as american-experience)
avg rating 3.97 — 227,879 ratings — published 2018
Different Seasons (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 222,373 ratings — published 1982
“He still had his tie on, a knitted tie with a flat bottom. It looked crocheted; it looked like a doily. Our biology master wore ties like that but George was the only boy you'd catch dead in one. He was both the oldest and youngest of us, the most fuddy-duddy and innocent, and I could see that his innocence extended to this question of sardonic intent. His poem, alas, was perfectly serious.”
― Old School
― Old School
“Every American carries within them an immigrant story—undocumented and visionary.”
― The Beggars of the Mercury Lights: We the Other People
― The Beggars of the Mercury Lights: We the Other People
