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The Americas Books
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.05 — 95,442 ratings — published 2005
Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,440 ratings — published 2019
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,641,844 ratings — published 2018
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,108,200 ratings — published 1967
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.09 — 266,740 ratings — published 1980
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,433,880 ratings — published 1985
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-americas)
avg rating 3.90 — 110,966 ratings — published 2009
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-americas)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,934,222 ratings — published 1925
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,695 ratings — published 2022
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.39 — 7,549 ratings — published 1938
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.31 — 27,784 ratings — published 1971
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.12 — 21,037 ratings — published 2011
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.37 — 20,596 ratings — published 2014
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 3 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.25 — 67,692 ratings — published 2010
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as the-americas)
avg rating 3.94 — 548,041 ratings — published 1985
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.52 — 117,521 ratings — published 2010
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.06 — 446,104 ratings — published 2016
Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,565 ratings — published 1988
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.26 — 102,663 ratings — published 1970
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.40 — 34,024 ratings — published 1988
The Feast of the Goat (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.35 — 43,028 ratings — published 2000
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,904,352 ratings — published 1960
Hawaii (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.22 — 81,640 ratings — published 1959
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as the-americas)
avg rating 3.97 — 710,147 ratings — published 1989
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.00 — 42,613 ratings — published 2025
The Lost City of the Monkey God (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as the-americas)
avg rating 3.93 — 62,905 ratings — published 2017
The Sense of Power: Studies in the Ideas of Canadian Imperialism, 1867-1914, Second Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.00 — 19 ratings — published 1970
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.43 — 502,798 ratings — published 2024
The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,220,963 ratings — published 2007
The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)
by (shelved 2 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,221,802 ratings — published 2008
The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,372,462 ratings — published 2006
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,731,809 ratings — published 2010
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,169,001 ratings — published 2009
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,740 ratings — published 2022
North Woods (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.10 — 112,261 ratings — published 2023
La ciudad y los perros (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.18 — 28,620 ratings — published 1962
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.14 — 448,158 ratings — published 2017
Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,565 ratings — published 2019
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-americas)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,040,758 ratings — published 2023
The Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,584,793 ratings — published 2024
Wij slaven van Suriname (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,003 ratings — published 1934
When We Cease to Understand the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.10 — 64,045 ratings — published 2020
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.26 — 589,169 ratings — published 1988
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-americas)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,583,202 ratings — published 1988
The Murmur of Bees (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.23 — 75,594 ratings — published 2015
History of the Conquest of Mexico/History of the Conquest of Peru (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.04 — 91 ratings — published
A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,876 ratings — published 2007
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as the-americas)
avg rating 3.75 — 955 ratings — published 2023
The Last Days of the Incas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,192 ratings — published 2007
The Last Summer at Chelsea Beach (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-americas)
avg rating 3.82 — 6,547 ratings — published 2015
“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.”
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“We here goe to cause preach the Gospel where it was never heard, and not to subdue but to civilize the Savages, for their ruine could give us neither glory nor benefit, since in place of fame it would breed infamie, and would defraud us of many able bodies, that hereafter (besides the Christian dutie in saving their soules) by themselves or by their Posteritie may serve to many good uses, when by our meanes they shall learn lawful Trades, and industries.”
― An Encouragement to Colonies
― An Encouragement to Colonies
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