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Book Recommendations for Americas in 2023
There are 155 americas books recommended by the community in 2023.
The Last Days of the Incas
Kim MacQuarrie
4.7
Comments: 58
Avaliable on Amazon
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos
4.7
Comments: 17
Avaliable on Amazon
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
Eric Schlosser
4.6
Comments: 14
Avaliable on Amazon
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Charles C. Mann
4.5
Comments: 13
Avaliable on Amazon
How the Irish Became White (Routledge Classics)
Noel Ignatiev
3.5
Comments: 13
Avaliable on Amazon
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
Michael Lewis
4.5
Comments: 9
Avaliable on Amazon
The Franklin Cover-up: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska
John W. DeCamp
4.6
Comments: 8
Avaliable on Amazon
Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Plum Island Germ Laboratory
Michael C Carroll
4.3
Comments: 7
Avaliable on Amazon
Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date
Robert X. Cringely
4.0
Comments: 6
Avaliable on Amazon
KILLDOZER: The True Story of the Colorado Bulldozer Rampage
Patrick F Brower
4.0
Comments: 5
Avaliable on Amazon
H. H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil
Adam Selzer
3.7
Comments: 5
Avaliable on Amazon
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--but Some Don't
Nate Silver
4.4
Comments: 5
Avaliable on Amazon
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
Tom O'Neill, Dan Piepenbring
4.3
Comments: 5
Avaliable on Amazon
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership
James Comey
4.7
Comments: 5
Avaliable on Amazon
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Ashlee Vance
4.6
Comments: 4
Avaliable on Amazon
Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City
Antero Pietila
4.4
Comments: 4
Avaliable on Amazon
How Democracies Die
Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt
4.4
Comments: 3
Avaliable on Amazon
Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
Pete Buttigieg
4.9
Comments: 3
Avaliable on Amazon
An Unfinished Revolution: Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln
Robin Blackburn, Raya Dunaevskaya
4.2
Comments: 3
Avaliable on Amazon
Flash Boys
Michael Lewis
4.5
Comments: 3
Avaliable on Amazon
The Gun
C. J. Chivers
4.3
Comments: 3
Avaliable on Amazon
Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-Up Call
Arthur Manuel
3.6
Comments: 3
Avaliable on Amazon
Another Kind of Madness: A Journey Through the Stigma and Hope of Mental Illness
Stephen Hinshaw
4.9
Comments: 3
Avaliable on Amazon
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Neil deGrasse Tyson
4.0
Comments: 3
Avaliable on Amazon
Café con leche: Race, Class, and National Image in Venezuela
Winthrop R. Wright
4.0
Comments: 3
Avaliable on Amazon
The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade
Susan Wise Bauer
4.4
Comments: 3
Avaliable on Amazon
Over The Edge: Death in Grand Canyon, Newly Expanded 10th Anniversary Edition
Kim Besom & Bronze Black
4.6
Comments: 3
Avaliable on Amazon
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
James M. McPherson
4.7
Comments: 3
Avaliable on Amazon
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
Colin Woodard
4.5
Comments: 3
Avaliable on Amazon
The Hidden History of the Korean War, 1950-1951: A Nonconformist History of Our Times
I. F. Stone
4.6
Comments: 3
Avaliable on Amazon
Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon
Thomas M. Myers
4.6
Comments: 3
Avaliable on Amazon
The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel
Nicholas Ostler
3.6
Comments: 2
Avaliable on Amazon
The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
Mark Kurlansky
4.4
Comments: 2
Avaliable on Amazon
Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World
Tom Wright, Bradley Hope
4.8
Comments: 2
Avaliable on Amazon
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
Charles C. Mann
4.6
Comments: 2
Avaliable on Amazon
San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities
Michael Shellenberger
4.6
Comments: 2
Avaliable on Amazon
Scientist: E. O. Wilson: A Life in Nature
Richard Rhodes
4.7
Comments: 2
Avaliable on Amazon
Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
Conor Dougherty
4.6
Comments: 2
Avaliable on Amazon
Overthrow
Stephen Kinzer
4.6
Comments: 2
Avaliable on Amazon
Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley (As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom)
Adam Fisher
4.3
Comments: 2
Avaliable on Amazon
Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco
Gary Kamiya
4.5
Comments: 2
Avaliable on Amazon
Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
Ian Morris
4.1
Comments: 2
Avaliable on Amazon
Boys Will Be Boys: The Glory Days and Party Nights of the Dallas Cowboys Dynasty
Jeff Pearlman
4.4
Comments: 2
Avaliable on Amazon
Badasses: The Legend of Snake, Foo, Dr. Death, and John Madden's Oakland Raiders
Peter Richmond
4.4
Comments: 2
Avaliable on Amazon
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King
Rich Cohen
4.3
Comments: 2
Avaliable on Amazon
We Are As Gods: Back to the Land in the 1970s on the Quest for a New America
Kate Daloz
4.9
Comments: 2
Avaliable on Amazon
Philly War Zone: Growing Up in a Racial Battleground
Kevin Purcell
4.5
Comments: 2
Avaliable on Amazon
The Peoples of Philadelphia: A History of Ethnic Groups and Lower-Class Life, 1790-1940 (Pennsylvania Paperbacks)
Mark H. Haller
4.1
Comments: 2
Avaliable on Amazon
Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
Mildred Armstrong Kalish
4.5
Comments: 2
Avaliable on Amazon
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
Mike Davis, Robert Morrow
4.2
Comments: 2
Avaliable on Amazon
Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest
Gregg Olsen
4.2
Comments: 2
Avaliable on Amazon
An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 (The Lamar Series in Western History)
Benjamin Madley
4.5
Comments: 2
Avaliable on Amazon
Astroball: The New Way to Win It All
Ben Reiter
4.6
Comments: 2
Avaliable on Amazon
Vimy
Pierre Berton
4.4
Comments: 2
Avaliable on Amazon
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Erik Larson
4.4
Comments: 2
Avaliable on Amazon
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride
Cary Elwes, Rob Reiner
4.7
Comments: 2
Avaliable on Amazon
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
S. C. Gwynne
4.0
Comments: 2
Avaliable on Amazon
Death at the Ballpark: More Than 2,000 Game-Related Fatalities of Players, Other Personnel and Spectators in Amateur and Professional Basebal
Robert M. Gorman, David Weeks
4.3
Comments: 2
Avaliable on Amazon
How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
Heather Cox Richardson
4.7
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
Jennifer Toth
4.0
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power
Howard W. French
4.4
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi (Penguin Library of American Indian History)
Timothy R. Pauketat
4.5
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
The Control of Nature
John McPhee
4.5
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South
Radley Balko, Tucker Carrington, John Grisham
4.4
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
Annie Jacobsen
4.1
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
The New York Times’ 1619 Project and the Racialist Falsification of History
David North, Thomas Mackaman
4.0
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
How the GOP Stole America's 2004 Election & Is Rigging 2008
Bob Fitrakis, Harvey Wasserman
3.3
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Stalling for Time: My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator
Gary Noesner
4.7
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd
Richard Zacks
4.3
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need (Random House Large Print)
Bill Gates
4.5
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park, 2nd Edition
Lee H. Whittlesey
4.1
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Baghdad by the Bay
Herb Caen
4.9
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud
Peter Watson
4.4
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
John Brooks
4.0
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
The Anti-Federalist Papers (Dover Thrift Editions: American History)
Patrick Henry
4.8
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
Stephen Ambrose
4.7
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Reporter: A Memoir
Seymour M. Hersh
4.7
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
The Firecracker Boys
Dan O'Neill
4.5
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Razor Clams: Buried Treasure of the Pacific Northwest (Ruth Kirk Book)
David Berger
4.6
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy
Ian W. Toll
4.8
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Implementation: How Great Expectations in Washington Are Dashed in Oakland; Or, Why It's Amazing that Federal Programs Work at All, This Being a Saga ... Morals on a Foundation (Oakland Project)
Jeffrey L. Pressman, Aaron Wildavsky
4.0
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Environmental Inequalities: Class, Race, and Industrial Pollution in Gary, Indiana, 1945-1980
Andrew Hurley
4.0
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Simon Winchester
4.6
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
America Walks into a Bar: A Spirited History Of Taverns And Saloons, Speakeasies And Grog Shops
Christine Sismondo
4.4
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
Emmanuel Todd, Michael Lind
3.7
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Erik Larson
4.3
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace
H. W. Brands
4.0
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Startupland: How Three Guys Risked Everything to Turn an Idea into a Global Business
Mikkel Svane, Carlye Adler
4.4
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069
Neil Howe, William Strauss
4.2
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
UFOs & Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites
Robert Lambert Hastings
4.8
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America
Frances FitzGerald
4.6
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Science Be Dammed: How Ignoring Inconvenient Science Drained the Colorado River
John Fleck, Visit Amazon's John Fleck Pagesearch resultsJohn Fleck
4.6
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
El fraude del siglo / Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World (Spanish Edition)
Bradley Hope
4.2
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Brief Answers to the Big Questions
Stephen Hawking
4.5
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
Annie Jacobsen
4.4
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
1861: The Civil War Awakening
Adam Goodheart
4.5
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
New Roots for Agriculture (New Edition) (Farming and Ranching)
Wes Jackson
3.0
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
TWA 800: The Crash, the Cover-Up, and the Conspiracy
Jack Cashill
4.0
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How
Theodore John Kaczynski
3.9
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Companies We Keep: Employee Ownership and the Business of Community and Place, 2nd Edition
John Abrams, William Greider
5.0
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression
Studs Terkel
4.4
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
James C. Scott
4.5
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Conquest: Cortes, Montezuma, and the Fall of Old Mexico
Hugh Thomas
4.6
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Working
Robert A. Caro
0.0
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Unintimidated: A Governor's Story and a Nation's Challenge
Scott Walker, Marc Thiessen
4.8
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Citizens in Arms: The Army and Militia in American Society to the War of 1812
Lawrence Delbert Cress
4.0
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
David Grann
4.3
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
J. D. Vance
4.4
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
The Green Flame: Surviving Government Secrecy
Andrew Dequasie
4.4
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Edward E. Baptist
4.6
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
Erica Armstrong Dunbar
4.3
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Why not the best?
Jimmy Carter
4.7
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: a cultural history)
David Hackett Fischer
4.6
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World
Ken Alder
4.3
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
The Deep Dark: Disaster and Redemption in America's Richest Silver Mine
Gregg Olsen
4.5
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York
Clifton Hood
4.0
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
A Patriot's History® of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror
Larry Schweikart, Michael Allen
4.4
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
How the States Got Their Shapes
Mr. Mark Stein
4.1
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Dream City: Race, Power, and the Decline of Washington, D.C.
Tom Sherwood
4.5
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Fire Underground: The Ongoing Tragedy Of The Centralia Mine Fire
David Dekok
4.4
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
The West Side Carbondale, Pennsylvania Mine Fire (Pennsylvania Heritage Books)
Kathleen Purcell Munley
4.2
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails: How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War
Tom Wheeler
4.5
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
Hampton Sides
4.7
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Fortress America: How We Embraced Fear and Abandoned Democracy
Elaine Tyler May
3.9
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics
David Kaiser
4.6
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington
Jennet Conant
4.4
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Disaster: Hurricane Katrina and the Failure of Homeland Security
Christopher Cooper, Robert Block
4.0
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator: With New Commentary and Insights on the Life and Times of Jesse Livermore (Annotated Edition)
Edwin Lef?vre, Jon D. Markman
4.0
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area (Classic Reprint)
Harry M. Caudill
4.4
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
Immaculee Ilibagiza, Steve Erwin
4.9
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Barons of the Sea: And Their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship
Steven Ujifusa
4.5
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival
Laurence Gonzales
4.4
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
4.1
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Operation Cyanide: How the Bombing of the USS Liberty Nearly Caused World War Three
Peter Hounam
4.7
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Coming into the Country
John McPhee
4.6
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Harvey Penick's Little Red Book: Lessons And Teachings From A Lifetime In Golf
Harvey Penick, Davis Love III
4.7
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
Nancy Isenberg
4.1
Avaliable on Amazon
U.S. History For Dummies
Steve Wiegand
4.2
Avaliable on Amazon
Not Without Peril: 150 Years Of Misadventure On The Presidential Range Of New Hampshire
Nicholas Howe
4.6
Avaliable on Amazon
Is Today the Day?
Tulsi Gabbard
4.6
Avaliable on Amazon
White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (Politics and Society in Modern America)
Kevin M. Kruse
3.8
Avaliable on Amazon
Bart: The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System
Michael C. Healy
4.9
Avaliable on Amazon
Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Martha's Vineyard
Nora Ellen GROCE
4.4
Avaliable on Amazon
Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
S. C. Gwynne
4.8
Avaliable on Amazon
What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
Thomas Frank
4.1
Avaliable on Amazon
City in the Sky: The Rise and Fall of the World Trade Center
James Glanz, Eric Lipton
4.5
Avaliable on Amazon
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival
Melissa Fleming
4.6
Avaliable on Amazon
The Blood of Emmett Till
Timothy B. Tyson
4.6
Avaliable on Amazon
Janesville: An American Story
Amy Goldstein
4.7
Avaliable on Amazon
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
Gilbert King
4.7
Avaliable on Amazon
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote
4.5
Avaliable on Amazon
Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South
Michael P. Johnson, James L. Roark
4.4
Avaliable on Amazon
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
Arlie Russell Hochschild
4.4
Avaliable on Amazon
Civilization: The West and the Rest
Niall Ferguson
4.0
Avaliable on Amazon
Virginia City: Secrets of a Western Past (Historical Archaeology of the American West)
Ronald M. James
5.0
Avaliable on Amazon
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