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Americas Books
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as americas)
avg rating 4.05 — 95,442 ratings — published 2005
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as americas)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,108,204 ratings — published 1967
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as americas)
avg rating 4.26 — 102,662 ratings — published 1970
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as americas)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,904,403 ratings — published 1960
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as americas)
avg rating 4.09 — 266,741 ratings — published 1980
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as americas)
avg rating 4.12 — 21,037 ratings — published 2011
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as americas)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,934,287 ratings — published 1925
Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as americas)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,440 ratings — published 2019
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as americas)
avg rating 4.31 — 27,784 ratings — published 1971
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as americas)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,844,623 ratings — published 1937
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as americas)
avg rating 3.90 — 110,967 ratings — published 2009
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 21 times as americas)
avg rating 4.25 — 67,692 ratings — published 2010
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as americas)
avg rating 4.46 — 21,438 ratings — published 2019
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as americas)
avg rating 4.40 — 367,243 ratings — published 2015
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as americas)
avg rating 4.48 — 117,293 ratings — published 2010
The Lost City of the Monkey God (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as americas)
avg rating 3.93 — 62,905 ratings — published 2017
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as americas)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,433,923 ratings — published 1985
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as americas)
avg rating 4.30 — 321,195 ratings — published 1982
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as americas)
avg rating 3.94 — 548,047 ratings — published 1985
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as americas)
avg rating 4.51 — 174,055 ratings — published 2013
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as americas)
avg rating 4.03 — 996,600 ratings — published 1939
The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as americas)
avg rating 4.40 — 24,519 ratings — published 1986
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 14 times as americas)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,641,887 ratings — published 2018
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as americas)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,902,637 ratings — published 1951
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as americas)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,228,268 ratings — published 1963
The Last Days of the Incas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as americas)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,192 ratings — published 2007
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as americas)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,027,516 ratings — published 2009
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as americas)
avg rating 3.66 — 443,875 ratings — published 2020
The Mueller Report (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as americas)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,104 ratings — published 2019
Cuba: An American History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as americas)
avg rating 4.46 — 5,569 ratings — published 2021
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as americas)
avg rating 4.14 — 448,160 ratings — published 2017
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
by (shelved 13 times as americas)
avg rating 4.37 — 20,596 ratings — published 2014
Like Water for Chocolate (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as americas)
avg rating 3.95 — 395,568 ratings — published 1989
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as americas)
avg rating 4.06 — 446,107 ratings — published 2016
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as americas)
avg rating 4.28 — 753,747 ratings — published 1982
In Patagonia (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as americas)
avg rating 3.64 — 19,321 ratings — published 1977
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as americas)
avg rating 4.13 — 162,125 ratings — published 2015
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as americas)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,121,724 ratings — published 2017
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as americas)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,868,708 ratings — published 2018
Bolívar: American Liberator (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as americas)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,659 ratings — published 2013
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as americas)
avg rating 4.20 — 14,869 ratings — published 2011
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Vintage International)
by (shelved 12 times as americas)
avg rating 3.97 — 237,207 ratings — published 1981
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as americas)
avg rating 3.89 — 278,961 ratings — published 2007
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as americas)
avg rating 4.12 — 857,560 ratings — published 2020
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as americas)
avg rating 3.98 — 491,937 ratings — published 1987
The Feast of the Goat (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as americas)
avg rating 4.35 — 43,028 ratings — published 2000
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as americas)
avg rating 4.44 — 139,268 ratings — published 1992
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as americas)
avg rating 4.39 — 7,550 ratings — published 1938
History of Bourbon (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 10 times as americas)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,845 ratings — published 2019
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as americas)
avg rating 3.99 — 387,417 ratings — published 1937
“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
