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The Collected Poems
Sylvia Plath
4.25 average rating, · 51.7k ratings
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The Collected Poems
Langston Hughes
4.36 average rating, · 18.3k ratings
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The Story of an Hour
Kate Chopin
4.06 average rating, · 27.5k ratings
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These Truths: A History of the United States
Jill Lepore
4.40 average rating, · 14k ratings
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The Complete Poems
Anne Sexton
4.29 average rating, · 16.9k ratings
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The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
Jon Meacham
4.26 average rating, · 16.5k ratings
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The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
4.23 average rating, · 15.9k ratings
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American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
Colin Woodard
4.20 average rating, · 15.3k ratings
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The Colossus and Other Poems
Sylvia Plath
4.16 average rating, · 14.3k ratings
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The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
George Packer
4.13 average rating, · 12.6k ratings
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The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
Russell Shorto
4.18 average rating, · 11.8k ratings
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Burr
Gore Vidal
4.09 average rating, · 10.8k ratings
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Collected Poems
Edna St. Vincent Millay
4.24 average rating, · 8.6k ratings
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What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815 - 1848
Daniel Walker Howe
4.17 average rating, · 8.9k ratings
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The Fifties
David Halberstam
4.29 average rating, · 7.1k ratings
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Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto
Mark R. Levin
4.17 average rating, · 7.7k ratings
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Questa è l'America: Storie per capire il presente degli Stati Uniti e il nostro futuro
Francesco Costa
4.19 average rating, · 7.3k ratings
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Atlas Shrugged, Part A
Ayn Rand
4.24 average rating, · 5.7k ratings
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Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
David M. Kennedy
4.21 average rating, · 5.5k ratings
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Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
Nancy MacLean
4.29 average rating, · 5.1k ratings
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Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
Gordon S. Wood
4.16 average rating, · 5.6k ratings
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The Radicalism of the American Revolution
Gordon S. Wood
4.08 average rating, · 5.5k ratings
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How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps
Ben Shapiro
4.06 average rating, · 5.2k ratings
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When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
John Ganz
4.07 average rating, · 5k ratings
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