미국

미국의 경험은 국가의 이상, 제도, 그리고 끊임없이 변화하는 정체성에 의문을 제기하고, 찬양하며, 씨름하는 목소리들을 통해 펼쳐집니다. 이 작품들은 정치적 선언문과 문화 평론에서부터 개인 수필과 지역 이야기에 이르기까지, 미국 역사의 거대한 흐름과 그 사람들의 내밀한 이야기를 모두 담아냅니다.

미국 도서 요약

순수의 시대

저자: 이디스 워튼 • 1920

An engaged New York lawyer falls for his fiancée's cousin, a countess who fled her marriage.

3.97

100,000+

🏙️ Gilded Age New York 💔 Forbidden Love ⚖️ Duty Versus Desire 🎭 Unconventional Woman 🥀 Restrained Longing

순수의 시대

An engaged New York lawyer falls for his fiancée's cousin, a countess who fled her marriage.

저자: 이디스 워튼 1920 293 페이지

3.97

100,000+ 개의 평점

🏙️ Gilded Age New York 💔 Forbidden Love ⚖️ Duty Versus Desire 🎭 Unconventional Woman 🥀 Restrained Longing

Shelterwood

저자: Lisa Wingate • 2024

Children's skeletons in an Oklahoma cave pull a ranger toward a girl's desperate escape in 1909.

3.85

36,000+

🕰️ Dual Timeline 🫂 Found Family 👭 Sibling Protection ⚠️ Children In Peril 🏘️ Small Town Secrets

Shelterwood

Children's skeletons in an Oklahoma cave pull a ranger toward a girl's desperate escape in 1909.

저자: Lisa Wingate 2024 347 페이지

3.85

36,000+ 개의 평점

🕰️ Dual Timeline 🫂 Found Family 👭 Sibling Protection ⚠️ Children In Peril 🏘️ Small Town Secrets

The Upswing

저자: Robert D. Putnam • 2020

America swings between "we" and "me" eras. The pivot decade was the 1960s.

3.94

1,000+

📈 Economic History 🏛️ Political Polarization 🏘️ Civic Decline 💰 Income Inequality 🤝 Social Capital

The Upswing

America swings between "we" and "me" eras. The pivot decade was the 1960s.

저자: Robert D. Putnam 2020 464 페이지

3.94

1,000+ 개의 평점

📈 Economic History 🏛️ Political Polarization 🏘️ Civic Decline 💰 Income Inequality 🤝 Social Capital

The Art of Power

저자: Nancy Pelosi • 2024

From the 2008 crash to January 6, how the first woman Speaker held democracy together.

3.94

6,000+

👩‍⚖️ Women In Politics 🏛️ Congressional Leadership 📖 Political Memoir 🚨 Crisis Management 📜 Legislative Process

The Art of Power

From the 2008 crash to January 6, how the first woman Speaker held democracy together.

저자: Nancy Pelosi 2024 352 페이지

3.94

6,000+ 개의 평점

👩‍⚖️ Women In Politics 🏛️ Congressional Leadership 📖 Political Memoir 🚨 Crisis Management 📜 Legislative Process

March

저자: Geraldine Brooks • 2005

The father of Little Women writes home from war, hiding the brutality eroding his faith.

3.82

79,000+

🔥 Civil War Fiction ✊ Abolitionist Fiction 📖 Reimagined Classic 🌟 Idealistic Protagonist 💔 Marriage Under Strain

March

The father of Little Women writes home from war, hiding the brutality eroding his faith.

저자: Geraldine Brooks 2005 280 페이지

3.82

79,000+ 개의 평점

🔥 Civil War Fiction ✊ Abolitionist Fiction 📖 Reimagined Classic 🌟 Idealistic Protagonist 💔 Marriage Under Strain

We Were the Mulvaneys

저자: Joyce. Carol Oats • 1996

A daughter's sexual assault unravels the Mulvaneys, a family whose reputation was everything.

3.75

100,000+

📖 Family Saga 📉 Fall From Grace 💔 Family Estrangement 🩹 Trauma And Healing 🇺🇸 1970s America

We Were the Mulvaneys

A daughter's sexual assault unravels the Mulvaneys, a family whose reputation was everything.

저자: Joyce. Carol Oats 1996 454 페이지

3.75

100,000+ 개의 평점

📖 Family Saga 📉 Fall From Grace 💔 Family Estrangement 🩹 Trauma And Healing 🇺🇸 1970s America

Naked Lunch

저자: William S. Burroughs • 1959

A junkie fleeing the law plunges into a surreal city where addiction drives every transaction.

3.46

99,000+

🚫 Transgressive Fiction 🥁 Beat Generation ✂️ Experimental Novel 💉 Heroin Addiction 🎛️ Control Systems

Naked Lunch

A junkie fleeing the law plunges into a surreal city where addiction drives every transaction.

저자: William S. Burroughs 1959 289 페이지

3.46

99,000+ 개의 평점

🚫 Transgressive Fiction 🥁 Beat Generation ✂️ Experimental Novel 💉 Heroin Addiction 🎛️ Control Systems

모비 딕

저자: 허먼 멜빌 • 1851

A sailor joins a whaling ship whose captain will destroy everything to kill one white whale.

3.57

600,000+

⚓ Maritime Adventure 🤔 Philosophical Novel 🔥 Obsessive Quest 🤝 Unlikely Friendship ☠️ Doomed Captain

몰입형

모비 딕

A sailor joins a whaling ship whose captain will destroy everything to kill one white whale.

저자: 허먼 멜빌 1851 720 페이지

3.57

600,000+ 개의 평점

⚓ Maritime Adventure 🤔 Philosophical Novel 🔥 Obsessive Quest 🤝 Unlikely Friendship ☠️ Doomed Captain

Walt Disney

저자: Neal Gabler • 2006

The Disney empire: one haunted man's attempt to build a reality he could finally control.

4.07

11,000+

🎞️ Animation History 🎬 Hollywood Moguls 🎯 Creative Perfectionism 🧠 Psychological Biography 🏢 Corporate Biography

Walt Disney

The Disney empire: one haunted man's attempt to build a reality he could finally control.

저자: Neal Gabler 2006 851 페이지

4.07

11,000+ 개의 평점

🎞️ Animation History 🎬 Hollywood Moguls 🎯 Creative Perfectionism 🧠 Psychological Biography 🏢 Corporate Biography

Freedom from Fear

저자: David M. Kennedy • 1999

How World War I's broken peace became the Depression, and World War II made modern America.

4.21

5,000+

🏚️ Great Depression 🏛️ New Deal Era ⚔️ World War Two 🏠 Home Front 🛑 American Isolationism

Freedom from Fear

How World War I's broken peace became the Depression, and World War II made modern America.

저자: David M. Kennedy 1999 936 페이지

4.21

5,000+ 개의 평점

🏚️ Great Depression 🏛️ New Deal Era ⚔️ World War Two 🏠 Home Front 🛑 American Isolationism

Hard Choices

저자: Hillary Rodham Clinton • 2013

Deciding which American principle to sacrifice today: the memoir of a Secretary of State.

3.61

14,000+

🌎 American Foreign Policy 📖 Diplomatic Memoirs 🤝 Soft Power 🛡️ Counterterrorism 💼 Economic Diplomacy

Hard Choices

Deciding which American principle to sacrifice today: the memoir of a Secretary of State.

저자: Hillary Rodham Clinton 2013 788 페이지

3.61

14,000+ 개의 평점

🌎 American Foreign Policy 📖 Diplomatic Memoirs 🤝 Soft Power 🛡️ Counterterrorism 💼 Economic Diplomacy

주홍글씨

저자: 너새니얼 호손 • 1850

Shamed for adultery, a Puritan woman shields her lover's name while her disguised husband hunts him.

3.44

900,000+

🏘️ Puritan New England 💔 Hidden Guilt 👁️ Public Shaming 🐍 Psychological Revenge 🌫️ Brooding Atmosphere

주홍글씨

Shamed for adultery, a Puritan woman shields her lover's name while her disguised husband hunts him.

저자: 너새니얼 호손 1850 279 페이지

3.44

900,000+ 개의 평점

🏘️ Puritan New England 💔 Hidden Guilt 👁️ Public Shaming 🐍 Psychological Revenge 🌫️ Brooding Atmosphere

각성

저자: 케이트 쇼팽 • 1899

A New Orleans wife awakens to desire. Society has no room for the woman she becomes.

3.69

200,000+

🕊️ Female Autonomy 💔 Marital Discontent 🚫 Forbidden Love 🎭 Creole Society 🤫 Quiet Rebellion

각성

A New Orleans wife awakens to desire. Society has no room for the woman she becomes.

저자: 케이트 쇼팽 1899 195 페이지

3.69

200,000+ 개의 평점

🕊️ Female Autonomy 💔 Marital Discontent 🚫 Forbidden Love 🎭 Creole Society 🤫 Quiet Rebellion

더 네스트

저자: 신시아 다프릭스 스위니 • 2016

Four siblings, one trust fund, and the crash that forces them to finally grow up.

3.41

100,000+

🏠 Family Saga ⏳ Midlife Reckoning ✍️ Creative Block 🖤 Darkly Comic 🗽 New York City

더 네스트

Four siblings, one trust fund, and the crash that forces them to finally grow up.

저자: 신시아 다프릭스 스위니 2016 432 페이지

3.41

100,000+ 개의 평점

🏠 Family Saga ⏳ Midlife Reckoning ✍️ Creative Block 🖤 Darkly Comic 🗽 New York City

War as I Knew It

저자: George S. Patton Jr. • 1947

Relentless attack, improvised supply, and a belief that defense loses wars: Patton's own account.

4.12

2,000+

🪖 Military Command 📖 War Memoirs 🗺️ Military Strategy 🎖️ Combat Leadership ⚡ Maneuver Warfare

War as I Knew It

Relentless attack, improvised supply, and a belief that defense loses wars: Patton's own account.

저자: George S. Patton Jr. 1947 425 페이지

4.12

2,000+ 개의 평점

🪖 Military Command 📖 War Memoirs 🗺️ Military Strategy 🎖️ Combat Leadership ⚡ Maneuver Warfare

Personal History

저자: Katharine Graham • 1997

Her husband's suicide left her publisher of The Washington Post. The board expected her to sell.

4.09

24,000+

📰 Media Industry 🏢 Family Business ✍️ Editorial Integrity 👩‍💼 Women In Leadership 🏛️ Political Journalism

Personal History

Her husband's suicide left her publisher of The Washington Post. The board expected her to sell.

저자: Katharine Graham 1997 642 페이지

4.09

24,000+ 개의 평점

📰 Media Industry 🏢 Family Business ✍️ Editorial Integrity 👩‍💼 Women In Leadership 🏛️ Political Journalism

Warriors Don't Cry

저자: Melba Pattillo Beals • 1994

Acid in her eyes, threats at every turn: a 15-year-old's year integrating an Arkansas high school.

4.18

16,000+

✊ Civil Rights Movement 🏫 School Desegregation 🕊️ Nonviolent Resistance 💔 Trauma And Resilience 👩🏾 Teen Memoir

Warriors Don't Cry

Acid in her eyes, threats at every turn: a 15-year-old's year integrating an Arkansas high school.

저자: Melba Pattillo Beals 1994 227 페이지

4.18

16,000+ 개의 평점

✊ Civil Rights Movement 🏫 School Desegregation 🕊️ Nonviolent Resistance 💔 Trauma And Resilience 👩🏾 Teen Memoir

My Life

저자: Bill Clinton • 2004

A dead father, a violent stepfather, and an ambition that wouldn't quit: the making of a president.

3.74

50,000+

🏛️ Presidential Memoirs 🗳️ Retail Politics 🌱 Political Coming Of Age 🌴 Southern Politics 🪖 Vietnam War Era

My Life

A dead father, a violent stepfather, and an ambition that wouldn't quit: the making of a president.

저자: Bill Clinton 2004 1008 페이지

3.74

50,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Presidential Memoirs 🗳️ Retail Politics 🌱 Political Coming Of Age 🌴 Southern Politics 🪖 Vietnam War Era

The Undocumented Americans

저자: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio • 2020

After 9/11, undocumented workers cleaned the rubble. Then they were forgotten and the poison stayed.

4.37

27,000+

🗽 Undocumented Immigration ✍️ Immigrant Memoir 🏥 Healthcare Inequality 🏭 Environmental Racism ⛓️ Labor Exploitation

The Undocumented Americans

After 9/11, undocumented workers cleaned the rubble. Then they were forgotten and the poison stayed.

저자: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio 2020 208 페이지

4.37

27,000+ 개의 평점

🗽 Undocumented Immigration ✍️ Immigrant Memoir 🏥 Healthcare Inequality 🏭 Environmental Racism ⛓️ Labor Exploitation

In Search of Sisterhood

저자: Paula J. Giddings • 1988

Before it was two months old, this Black sorority was marching on Washington for women's votes.

4.54

429

🏛️ Black Sororities 📜 Black Women's History 👥 Black Women's Clubs 🕊️ Racial Uplift ✊ Civil Rights Organizing

In Search of Sisterhood

Before it was two months old, this Black sorority was marching on Washington for women's votes.

저자: Paula J. Giddings 1988 336 페이지

4.54

429 개의 평점

🏛️ Black Sororities 📜 Black Women's History 👥 Black Women's Clubs 🕊️ Racial Uplift ✊ Civil Rights Organizing

Hondo

저자: Louis L'Amour • 1953

A lone rider finds a woman and boy on a desert ranch as Apache warriors gather.

4.06

14,000+

🐎 Classic Western 🏜️ Frontier Life 🤠 Lone Rider Hero 🖤 Found Family 🌵 Arizona Desert

Hondo

A lone rider finds a woman and boy on a desert ranch as Apache warriors gather.

저자: Louis L'Amour 1953 194 페이지

4.06

14,000+ 개의 평점

🐎 Classic Western 🏜️ Frontier Life 🤠 Lone Rider Hero 🖤 Found Family 🌵 Arizona Desert

The Five Thousand Year Leap

저자: W. Cleon Skousen • 1981

The principles that compressed 5,000 years of political trial into a single working republic.

4.27

7,000+

🏛️ Founding Fathers ⚖️ Natural Law 🗽 Classical Liberalism 🫡 Civic Virtue 📜 Originalism

The Five Thousand Year Leap

The principles that compressed 5,000 years of political trial into a single working republic.

저자: W. Cleon Skousen 1981 331 페이지

4.27

7,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Founding Fathers ⚖️ Natural Law 🗽 Classical Liberalism 🫡 Civic Virtue 📜 Originalism

Bitcoin Billionaires

저자: Ben Mezrich • 2019

After $65 million from Facebook, the twins bet everything on digital money the world called a joke.

3.98

7,000+

🪙 Cryptocurrency Origins 📈 Bitcoin Investing ⚠️ Startup Cautionary Tales ⚖️ Regulatory Battles 👨‍💻 Tech Founders

Bitcoin Billionaires

After $65 million from Facebook, the twins bet everything on digital money the world called a joke.

저자: Ben Mezrich 2019 288 페이지

3.98

7,000+ 개의 평점

🪙 Cryptocurrency Origins 📈 Bitcoin Investing ⚠️ Startup Cautionary Tales ⚖️ Regulatory Battles 👨‍💻 Tech Founders

Executive Orders

저자: Tom Clancy • 1996

After an attack kills the government, Jack Ryan becomes President and must stop a bioweapon plot.

4.12

53,000+

🏛️ Political Thriller 🖥️ Techno-Thriller 🦠 Biological Warfare 🕵️ Covert Operations 🌍 Geopolitical Tension

Executive Orders

After an attack kills the government, Jack Ryan becomes President and must stop a bioweapon plot.

저자: Tom Clancy 1996 1273 페이지

4.12

53,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Political Thriller 🖥️ Techno-Thriller 🦠 Biological Warfare 🕵️ Covert Operations 🌍 Geopolitical Tension

DisneyWar

저자: James B. Stewart • 2005

Disney's peacemaker died in a crash, and Eisner declared war on his own executive suite.

4.12

8,000+

🏢 Boardroom Battles 🎬 Hollywood Business 🎨 Creative Leadership 🔍 Corporate Intrigue 🎞️ Animation History

DisneyWar

Disney's peacemaker died in a crash, and Eisner declared war on his own executive suite.

저자: James B. Stewart 2005 620 페이지

4.12

8,000+ 개의 평점

🏢 Boardroom Battles 🎬 Hollywood Business 🎨 Creative Leadership 🔍 Corporate Intrigue 🎞️ Animation History

For Love of Country

저자: Tulsi Gabbard • 2024

A Democratic congresswoman walks away from her party. What she saw inside explains why.

4.34

2,000+

🇺🇸 American Politics 📖 Political Memoirs 🏛️ Classical Liberalism 🕊️ Anti-Interventionism 🎤 Cancel Culture

For Love of Country

A Democratic congresswoman walks away from her party. What she saw inside explains why.

저자: Tulsi Gabbard 2024 242 페이지

4.34

2,000+ 개의 평점

🇺🇸 American Politics 📖 Political Memoirs 🏛️ Classical Liberalism 🕊️ Anti-Interventionism 🎤 Cancel Culture

Trillions

저자: Robin Wigglesworth • 2021

Wall Street mocked them for proving nobody can beat the market. Now their idea directs trillions.

3.99

1,000+

📊 Index Funds 📉 Passive Investing 🖥️ Quantitative Finance 🎯 Efficient Markets 🏛️ Wall Street History

Trillions

Wall Street mocked them for proving nobody can beat the market. Now their idea directs trillions.

저자: Robin Wigglesworth 2021 352 페이지

3.99

1,000+ 개의 평점

📊 Index Funds 📉 Passive Investing 🖥️ Quantitative Finance 🎯 Efficient Markets 🏛️ Wall Street History

Surprise, Kill, Vanish

저자: Annie Jacobsen • 2019

Between peace and open war: the secret history of presidents who chose killing in the shadows.

4.31

7,000+

🕵️ CIA History 🥷 Covert Operations 🎯 Targeted Killing ❄️ Cold War History ⚔️ Unconventional Warfare

Surprise, Kill, Vanish

Between peace and open war: the secret history of presidents who chose killing in the shadows.

저자: Annie Jacobsen 2019 560 페이지

4.31

7,000+ 개의 평점

🕵️ CIA History 🥷 Covert Operations 🎯 Targeted Killing ❄️ Cold War History ⚔️ Unconventional Warfare

Four Hundred Souls

저자: Ibram X. Kendi • 2021

Eighty writers tell 400 years of African American history, starting where the textbooks go silent.

4.55

11,000+

🖤 African American History ⛓️ Transatlantic Slave Trade 🔍 Systemic Racism ✊ Black Resistance 📖 Revisionist History

Four Hundred Souls

Eighty writers tell 400 years of African American history, starting where the textbooks go silent.

저자: Ibram X. Kendi 2021 504 페이지

4.55

11,000+ 개의 평점

🖤 African American History ⛓️ Transatlantic Slave Trade 🔍 Systemic Racism ✊ Black Resistance 📖 Revisionist History

Dark Money

저자: Jane Mayer • 2016

One family's oil fortune built a secret political machine that now rivals the Republican Party.

4.31

27,000+

🐘 American Conservatism 💰 Campaign Finance 🧠 Think Tank Influence 🌡️ Climate Denial 🌿 Astroturf Politics

Dark Money

One family's oil fortune built a secret political machine that now rivals the Republican Party.

저자: Jane Mayer 2016 464 페이지

4.31

27,000+ 개의 평점

🐘 American Conservatism 💰 Campaign Finance 🧠 Think Tank Influence 🌡️ Climate Denial 🌿 Astroturf Politics

George Washington's Secret Six

저자: Brian Kilmeade • 2013

Six civilians ran Washington's spy ring in occupied New York. Their names stayed hidden 150 years.

3.86

21,000+

🏴 American Revolution 🕵️ Espionage History 🔍 Wartime Intelligence 🎖️ Ordinary Heroes 🤫 Hidden History

George Washington's Secret Six

Six civilians ran Washington's spy ring in occupied New York. Their names stayed hidden 150 years.

저자: Brian Kilmeade 2013 235 페이지

3.86

21,000+ 개의 평점

🏴 American Revolution 🕵️ Espionage History 🔍 Wartime Intelligence 🎖️ Ordinary Heroes 🤫 Hidden History

The Book Woman's Daughter

저자: Kim Michele Richardson • 2022

Kentucky, 1953: her parents jailed for their marriage, sixteen-year-old Honey fights to stay free.

4.23

87,000+

📚 Appalachian Historical 🐴 Packhorse Librarian 🏠 Found Family 👭 Female Solidarity 💙 Maternal Legacy

The Book Woman's Daughter

Kentucky, 1953: her parents jailed for their marriage, sixteen-year-old Honey fights to stay free.

저자: Kim Michele Richardson 2022 336 페이지

4.23

87,000+ 개의 평점

📚 Appalachian Historical 🐴 Packhorse Librarian 🏠 Found Family 👭 Female Solidarity 💙 Maternal Legacy

Harlem Rhapsody

저자: Victoria Christopher Murray • 2025

She built the Harlem Renaissance from the shadows. Her secret lover was its powerful married leader.

4.06

10,000+

🎷 Harlem Renaissance 📖 Biographical Fiction 🎺 Jazz Age Harlem ⚖️ Mentor Affair 💼 Ambition And Sacrifice

Harlem Rhapsody

She built the Harlem Renaissance from the shadows. Her secret lover was its powerful married leader.

저자: Victoria Christopher Murray 2025 400 페이지

4.06

10,000+ 개의 평점

🎷 Harlem Renaissance 📖 Biographical Fiction 🎺 Jazz Age Harlem ⚖️ Mentor Affair 💼 Ambition And Sacrifice

The System

저자: Robert B. Reich • 2020

An oligarchy replaced American democracy. The forty-year playbook, and the path to taking it apart.

4.28

3,000+

🏛️ Political Economy 💰 Money In Politics 📉 Economic Inequality 🏢 Corporate Power 🗳️ Democratic Reform

The System

An oligarchy replaced American democracy. The forty-year playbook, and the path to taking it apart.

저자: Robert B. Reich 2020 224 페이지

4.28

3,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Political Economy 💰 Money In Politics 📉 Economic Inequality 🏢 Corporate Power 🗳️ Democratic Reform

Dreams from My Father

저자: Barack Obama • 2008

Across continents, a mixed-race man hunts an absent father and the shape of his own identity.

4.04

500+

🧬 Mixed-Race Identity 🏛️ Political Memoirs 🤝 Community Organizing 🌍 Post-Colonial Africa 💔 Absent Fathers

Dreams from My Father

Across continents, a mixed-race man hunts an absent father and the shape of his own identity.

저자: Barack Obama 2008

4.04

500+ 개의 평점

🧬 Mixed-Race Identity 🏛️ Political Memoirs 🤝 Community Organizing 🌍 Post-Colonial Africa 💔 Absent Fathers

The Truths We Hold

저자: Kamala Harris • 2019

Banks, broken courts, separated families: a prosecutor turned senator on the fights that made her.

4.05

34,000+

📖 Political Memoirs 🗳️ Progressive Politics ⚖️ Criminal Justice Reform 🌎 Immigration Policy ✊ Civil Rights Movement

The Truths We Hold

Banks, broken courts, separated families: a prosecutor turned senator on the fights that made her.

저자: Kamala Harris 2019 336 페이지

4.05

34,000+ 개의 평점

📖 Political Memoirs 🗳️ Progressive Politics ⚖️ Criminal Justice Reform 🌎 Immigration Policy ✊ Civil Rights Movement

더 걸스

저자: 엠마 클라인 • 2016

A lonely teenager joins a cult in 1969 and becomes obsessed with its most captivating girl.

3.51

200,000+

🔮 Cult Fiction ☀️ 1960s California 🖤 Female Obsession 🎭 Charismatic Cult Leader 🌈 Queer Awakening

더 걸스

A lonely teenager joins a cult in 1969 and becomes obsessed with its most captivating girl.

저자: 엠마 클라인 2016 355 페이지

3.51

200,000+ 개의 평점

🔮 Cult Fiction ☀️ 1960s California 🖤 Female Obsession 🎭 Charismatic Cult Leader 🌈 Queer Awakening

Long-Distance Real Estate Investing

저자: David Greene • 2017

A free Black man is drugged, kidnapped, and sold. Twelve years later, a letter changes everything.

4.22

1,000+

⛓️ Slave Narratives 🏛️ Antebellum America 🛡️ Resistance Under Oppression 💔 Family Separation ✍️ Abolitionist Literature

Long-Distance Real Estate Investing

A free Black man is drugged, kidnapped, and sold. Twelve years later, a letter changes everything.

저자: David Greene 2017 395 페이지

4.22

1,000+ 개의 평점

⛓️ Slave Narratives 🏛️ Antebellum America 🛡️ Resistance Under Oppression 💔 Family Separation ✍️ Abolitionist Literature

Revolutionary Characters

저자: Gordon S. Wood • 2006

Not demigods but Enlightenment thinkers who had to turn philosophy into a working republic.

3.96

4,000+

🏛️ Founding Fathers 👥 Collective Biography 💡 Enlightenment Thought 🎭 Myth-Making 📚 Intellectual History

Revolutionary Characters

Not demigods but Enlightenment thinkers who had to turn philosophy into a working republic.

저자: Gordon S. Wood 2006 336 페이지

3.96

4,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Founding Fathers 👥 Collective Biography 💡 Enlightenment Thought 🎭 Myth-Making 📚 Intellectual History

Islands in the Stream

저자: Ernest Hemingway • 1970

An American painter on a Caribbean island faces his three sons and the past he fled.

3.88

17,000+

🖤 Grieving Father 🗿 Masculine Stoicism 👨‍👦‍👦 Father And Sons 🎨 Artist Protagonist 🏝️ Caribbean Setting

Islands in the Stream

An American painter on a Caribbean island faces his three sons and the past he fled.

저자: Ernest Hemingway 1970 448 페이지

3.88

17,000+ 개의 평점

🖤 Grieving Father 🗿 Masculine Stoicism 👨‍👦‍👦 Father And Sons 🎨 Artist Protagonist 🏝️ Caribbean Setting

Melania

저자: Melania Trump • 2024

Slovenian model lands in New York. Melania Trump ends up in the White House. Her version.

3.79

15,000+

👑 First Ladies Memoir 🗽 Immigrant Memoir 📸 Modeling Career 👠 New York Fashion 🏠 White House Life

Melania

Slovenian model lands in New York. Melania Trump ends up in the White House. Her version.

저자: Melania Trump 2024 338 페이지

3.79

15,000+ 개의 평점

👑 First Ladies Memoir 🗽 Immigrant Memoir 📸 Modeling Career 👠 New York Fashion 🏠 White House Life

Riders of the Purple Sage

저자: Zane Grey • 1912

A defiant Mormon woman draws a gunslinger's protection, pitting them both against her church.

3.76

15,000+

🐎 Classic Western 💕 Western Romance 🔫 Gunslinger Protector ⛪ Religious Oppression 💞 Dual Romance

Riders of the Purple Sage

A defiant Mormon woman draws a gunslinger's protection, pitting them both against her church.

저자: Zane Grey 1912 320 페이지

3.76

15,000+ 개의 평점

🐎 Classic Western 💕 Western Romance 🔫 Gunslinger Protector ⛪ Religious Oppression 💞 Dual Romance

Tropic of Cancer

저자: Henry Miller • 1934

A broke American drifts through Paris, turning hunger, sex, and failure into an ecstatic howl.

3.65

78,000+

🧪 Experimental Fiction 🗼 1930s Paris 🎨 Starving Artist 🧳 Expatriate Life 🔥 Transgressive Fiction

Tropic of Cancer

A broke American drifts through Paris, turning hunger, sex, and failure into an ecstatic howl.

저자: Henry Miller 1934 318 페이지

3.65

78,000+ 개의 평점

🧪 Experimental Fiction 🗼 1930s Paris 🎨 Starving Artist 🧳 Expatriate Life 🔥 Transgressive Fiction

Dark Territory

저자: Fred Kaplan • 2016

Reagan asked if 'WarGames' was real. The answer launched a covert digital war still raging today.

3.90

3,000+

🖥️ Cyber Warfare 🕵️ Digital Espionage 🏛️ Cybersecurity Policy 👁️ Government Surveillance 📡 Information Warfare

Dark Territory

Reagan asked if 'WarGames' was real. The answer launched a covert digital war still raging today.

저자: Fred Kaplan 2016 339 페이지

3.90

3,000+ 개의 평점

🖥️ Cyber Warfare 🕵️ Digital Espionage 🏛️ Cybersecurity Policy 👁️ Government Surveillance 📡 Information Warfare

A Man Without a Country

저자: Kurt Vonnegut Jr. • 2005

America as failed empire, Earth as casualty, laughter as survival: Vonnegut's final dispatch.

4.10

50,000+

📝 Literary Essays 🖤 Dark Humor 🎭 Political Satire 🌍 Secular Humanism 🕊️ Anti-War Writing

A Man Without a Country

America as failed empire, Earth as casualty, laughter as survival: Vonnegut's final dispatch.

저자: Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 2005 145 페이지

4.10

50,000+ 개의 평점

📝 Literary Essays 🖤 Dark Humor 🎭 Political Satire 🌍 Secular Humanism 🕊️ Anti-War Writing

The Liars' Club

저자: Mary Karr • 1995

The Liars' Club drank and told stories. Their daughters had a story too dangerous to share.

3.94

72,000+

🏚️ Southern Memoir 🔧 Working Class Memoir 🍺 Alcoholic Parents 🧬 Generational Trauma 🩹 Childhood Trauma

The Liars' Club

The Liars' Club drank and told stories. Their daughters had a story too dangerous to share.

저자: Mary Karr 1995 352 페이지

3.94

72,000+ 개의 평점

🏚️ Southern Memoir 🔧 Working Class Memoir 🍺 Alcoholic Parents 🧬 Generational Trauma 🩹 Childhood Trauma

Killing Kennedy

저자: Bill O'Reilly • 2012

He hid a dying body behind the glamour. The defector needed a target. Dallas, November 1963.

4.11

62,000+

🏛️ Presidential Biography ☢️ Cold War Politics 🎯 Political Assassination 🚀 Cuban Missile Crisis 👑 American Dynasty

Killing Kennedy

He hid a dying body behind the glamour. The defector needed a target. Dallas, November 1963.

저자: Bill O'Reilly 2012 325 페이지

4.11

62,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Presidential Biography ☢️ Cold War Politics 🎯 Political Assassination 🚀 Cuban Missile Crisis 👑 American Dynasty

The Flamethrowers

저자: Rachel Kushner • 2013

A motorcyclist turns speed into art, then follows her Italian lover into his family's violent world.

3.51

24,000+

🎨 1970s Art World 💫 Artist And Muse 💰 Old Money Family ⚡ Political Violence 👩‍🎨 Woman Artist

The Flamethrowers

A motorcyclist turns speed into art, then follows her Italian lover into his family's violent world.

저자: Rachel Kushner 2013 383 페이지

3.51

24,000+ 개의 평점

🎨 1970s Art World 💫 Artist And Muse 💰 Old Money Family ⚡ Political Violence 👩‍🎨 Woman Artist

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

저자: August Wilson • 1984

A 1927 recording pits Ma Rainey against her ambitious trumpeter, white producers holding the keys.

4.00

4,000+

🎷 Jazz Age 🎵 Blues Music 🎙️ Recording Studio 🎭 Artistic Integrity ✊🏿 Racial Exploitation

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

A 1927 recording pits Ma Rainey against her ambitious trumpeter, white producers holding the keys.

저자: August Wilson 1984 111 페이지

4.00

4,000+ 개의 평점

🎷 Jazz Age 🎵 Blues Music 🎙️ Recording Studio 🎭 Artistic Integrity ✊🏿 Racial Exploitation

The American Spirit

저자: David McCullough • 2017

Why the American past is a well to draw strength from, not a burden to escape.

4.22

7,000+

🏛️ Civic Engagement 🇺🇸 American Identity 🎓 Commencement Wisdom 📚 Love Of Learning 📖 Narrative History

The American Spirit

Why the American past is a well to draw strength from, not a burden to escape.

저자: David McCullough 2017 176 페이지

4.22

7,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Civic Engagement 🇺🇸 American Identity 🎓 Commencement Wisdom 📚 Love Of Learning 📖 Narrative History

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