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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as americas)
avg rating 4.05 — 98,092 ratings — published 2005
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as americas)
avg rating 4.26 — 105,990 ratings — published 1970
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as americas)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,146,492 ratings — published 1967
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as americas)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,106,437 ratings — published 1960
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as americas)
avg rating 4.12 — 21,569 ratings — published 2011
Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as americas)
avg rating 4.08 — 6,174 ratings — published 2019
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as americas)
avg rating 4.32 — 29,635 ratings — published 1971
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as americas)
avg rating 4.09 — 273,513 ratings — published 1980
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as americas)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,126,940 ratings — published 1925
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as americas)
avg rating 4.25 — 71,252 ratings — published 2010
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as americas)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,942,907 ratings — published 1937
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as americas)
avg rating 4.45 — 26,128 ratings — published 2019
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as americas)
avg rating 3.90 — 115,351 ratings — published 2009
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as americas)
avg rating 4.48 — 121,939 ratings — published 2010
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as americas)
avg rating 4.40 — 375,642 ratings — published 2015
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as americas)
avg rating 4.31 — 345,662 ratings — published 1982
The Lost City of the Monkey God (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as americas)
avg rating 3.93 — 64,900 ratings — published 2017
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as americas)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,551,236 ratings — published 1985
The Last Days of the Incas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as americas)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,538 ratings — published 2007
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as americas)
avg rating 3.94 — 561,619 ratings — published 1985
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as americas)
avg rating 4.50 — 188,564 ratings — published 2013
Cuba: An American History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as americas)
avg rating 4.47 — 6,788 ratings — published 2021
The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as americas)
avg rating 4.41 — 25,174 ratings — published 1986
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as americas)
avg rating 4.14 — 469,076 ratings — published 2017
Bolívar: American Liberator (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as americas)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,906 ratings — published 2013
History of Bourbon (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 14 times as americas)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,896 ratings — published 2019
The Mueller Report (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as americas)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,113 ratings — published 2019
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 14 times as americas)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,783,083 ratings — published 2018
Like Water for Chocolate (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as americas)
avg rating 3.95 — 404,887 ratings — published 1989
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as americas)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,004,000 ratings — published 1951
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as americas)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,307,698 ratings — published 1963
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as americas)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,025,125 ratings — published 1939
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as americas)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,091,705 ratings — published 2009
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as americas)
avg rating 3.66 — 464,531 ratings — published 2020
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as americas)
avg rating 4.13 — 167,420 ratings — published 2015
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
by (shelved 13 times as americas)
avg rating 4.37 — 21,733 ratings — published 2014
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as americas)
avg rating 4.20 — 15,431 ratings — published 2011
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as americas)
avg rating 4.06 — 458,615 ratings — published 2016
In Patagonia (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as americas)
avg rating 3.64 — 19,914 ratings — published 1977
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as americas)
avg rating 3.89 — 283,131 ratings — published 2007
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as americas)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,409,576 ratings — published 2017
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as americas)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,965,707 ratings — published 2018
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as americas)
avg rating 4.28 — 771,640 ratings — published 1982
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as americas)
avg rating 3.97 — 250,908 ratings — published 1981
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as americas)
avg rating 4.39 — 7,959 ratings — published 1938
The Dead Drink First (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 11 times as americas)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,423 ratings — published 2019
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as americas)
avg rating 4.11 — 882,141 ratings — published 2020
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as americas)
avg rating 4.00 — 781,179 ratings — published 2003
The Feast of the Goat (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as americas)
avg rating 4.36 — 45,314 ratings — published 2000
Conquistador: Hernán Cortés, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as americas)
avg rating 4.33 — 5,883 ratings — published 2008
“Les predijo el futuro que se avecinaba con autoridad de visionario profesional:
—¡Oh, son seres maravillosos, los que llegan! Hijos de la mutación. ¡Generosos! Una infinita bondad los desgarra: se quitarán el pan de la boca para saciar el hambre de nuestros hijos. Sé que su dios humano les manda amar al otro como a sí mismo. Serán incapaces de traernos muerte: detestan la guerra. Respetarán nuestras mujeres, porque su dios —infinitamente benigno— les manda no desear otra mujer que no sea la propia. (En esto son particularmente rigurosos.) Adoran un libro escrito por sabios y poetas. El dios que adoran es un hombrecillo golpeado, torturado, hasta ser puesto a muerte por unos militares. ¡Con el débil se identifican! ¡Al débil aman! »Digo, anuncio, que odian la guerra, la violencia, la violación. ¿Cuál es su fuerza?, os preguntaréis, y yo digo: la bondad y el amor. Ésa es su fuerza.”
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—¡Oh, son seres maravillosos, los que llegan! Hijos de la mutación. ¡Generosos! Una infinita bondad los desgarra: se quitarán el pan de la boca para saciar el hambre de nuestros hijos. Sé que su dios humano les manda amar al otro como a sí mismo. Serán incapaces de traernos muerte: detestan la guerra. Respetarán nuestras mujeres, porque su dios —infinitamente benigno— les manda no desear otra mujer que no sea la propia. (En esto son particularmente rigurosos.) Adoran un libro escrito por sabios y poetas. El dios que adoran es un hombrecillo golpeado, torturado, hasta ser puesto a muerte por unos militares. ¡Con el débil se identifican! ¡Al débil aman! »Digo, anuncio, que odian la guerra, la violencia, la violación. ¿Cuál es su fuerza?, os preguntaréis, y yo digo: la bondad y el amor. Ésa es su fuerza.”
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“Imagine. To have your father sitting down eating dinner or shining his shoes while watching TV. To have your front door blown off its hinges and the police rush in. To see your father in handcuffs, led away.”
― One Crazy Summer
― One Crazy Summer