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Description: Books that I have read, written by authors from the United States

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1

Flowers for Algernon

by Daniel Keyes

15,909 members

383 reviews

4.1

3 Members: jordantaylor, cej1027, ahef1963

2

Notes from a Small Island

9,853 members

218 reviews

3.8

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

3

Dear Mr. Henshaw

by Beverly Cleary

8,105 members

147 reviews

3.8

3 Members: jordantaylor, cej1027, ahef1963

4

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers

10,789 members

244 reviews

4

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

5

15,081 members

146 reviews

3.8

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

6

Dead Until Dark

by Charlaine Harris

15,825 members

597 reviews

3.8

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

7

The Birchbark House

by Louise Erdrich

2,688 members

78 reviews

4

2 Members: jordantaylor, cej1027

8

At Home : a short history of private life

6,461 members

265 reviews

3.9

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

9

The Gashlycrumb Tinies

by Edward Gorey

2,561 members

61 reviews

½ 4.5

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

10

Where the Wild Things Are

by Maurice Sendak

26,278 members

1,451 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: jordantaylor, cej1027

11

by Victoria Aveyard

9,156 members

350 reviews

3.8

Member: jordantaylor

12

The House of the Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

8,695 members

115 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: jordantaylor, cej1027

13

Portnoy's Complaint

7,403 members

155 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

14

The Ninth Daughter

by Barbara Hamilton

273 members

19 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: jordantaylor

15

by Sharon Kay Penman

840 members

14 reviews

3.9

Member: jordantaylor

16

by Eleanor Herman

1,517 members

47 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: jordantaylor

17

The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas

by Paul Theroux

1,860 members

32 reviews

3.9

Member: jordantaylor

18

The Optimist's Daughter

by Eudora Welty

2,650 members

92 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: jordantaylor

19

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

by Elizabeth Gilbert

2,217 members

96 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: jordantaylor

20

Some Girls: My Life in a Harem

by Jillian Lauren

529 members

27 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: jordantaylor

21

Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality

by Pauline W. Chen

494 members

17 reviews

3.8

Member: jordantaylor

22

The Typewriter Girl

by Alison Atlee

185 members

7 reviews

3

Member: jordantaylor

23

Her Infinite Variety: A Novel

by Louis Auchincloss

64 members

1 review

½ 3.4

Member: jordantaylor

24

Alice I Have Been: A Novel

by Melanie Benjamin

1,584 members

150 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: jordantaylor

25

63 members

1 review

½ 3.7

Member: jordantaylor

26

2,377 members

52 reviews

3.9

Member: jordantaylor

27

A Natural History of the Senses

by Diane Ackerman

2,910 members

31 reviews

4.1

Member: jordantaylor

28

The Diamond as Big as the Ritz [novella]

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

268 members

6 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: jordantaylor

29

Positive: One Doctor's Personal Experiences with Death, Life and the US Healthcare System

by Michael Saag

12 members

4

Member: jordantaylor

30

The Fate of Mercy Alban

382 members

36 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: jordantaylor

31

Brain Surgeon: A Doctor's Inspiring Encounters with Mortality and Miracles

112 members

16 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: jordantaylor

32

The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

3,679 members

33 reviews

4.1

Member: jordantaylor

33

A Glory of Unicorns

by Bruce Coville

598 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: jordantaylor

34

My Husband and My Wives: A Gay Man's Odyssey

by Charles Rowan Beye

39 members

1 review

3.1

Member: jordantaylor

35

by Leah Pileggi

111 members

18 reviews

3.8

Member: jordantaylor

36

Confessions of a Park Avenue Plastic Surgeon

44 members

3.1

Member: jordantaylor

37

Freud's Mistress

279 members

35 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: jordantaylor

38

Eat, Pray, Love

by Elizabeth Gilbert

22,198 members

861 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: jordantaylor

39

The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls

by Anton DiSclafani

906 members

78 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: jordantaylor

40

The Passions of Dr. Darcy

by Sharon Lathan

34 members

3

Member: jordantaylor

41

The Boleyn King

by Laura Andersen

400 members

53 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: jordantaylor

42

Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls

3,269 members

24 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: jordantaylor

43

by Sharon Kay Penman

1,359 members

21 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: jordantaylor

44

The Turk Who Loved Apples: And Other Tales of Losing My Way Around the World

58 members

9 reviews

2.9

Member: jordantaylor

45

The House at Belle Fontaine: Stories

43 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: jordantaylor

46

by Stephanie Carroll

44 members

9 reviews

4.2

Member: jordantaylor

47

Memoirs of a scam man: The life and deals of Patsy Anthony Lepera

by Patsy Anthony Lepera

4 members

½ 2.5

Member: jordantaylor

48

Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

by Therese Anne Fowler

1,861 members

92 reviews

3.8

Member: jordantaylor

49

Notes of a Tourist on Planet Earth: Being a Collection of Hilarious Essays, Poems and Ponderings About the Human Species

2 members

2

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50

The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart

by Jesse Bullington

527 members

27 reviews

3.2

Member: jordantaylor

51

Habitats: Private Lives in the Big City

by Constance Rosenblum

25 members

1 review

3

Member: jordantaylor

52

The House Where the Hardest Things Happened: A Memoir About Belonging

by Kate Young Caley

55 members

1 review

½ 3.6

Member: jordantaylor

53

Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering

by Henry Petroski

317 members

1 review

½ 3.6

Member: jordantaylor

54

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

4,942 members

254 reviews

3.9

Member: jordantaylor

55

by Stephenie Meyer

18,482 members

657 reviews

3.9

Member: jordantaylor

56

The Me Nobody Knows

by Stephen M. Joseph

71 members

1 review

3.1

Member: jordantaylor

57

The Darling Strumpet

by Gillian Bagwell

187 members

24 reviews

3.8

Member: jordantaylor

58

Humboldt's Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Latin American Journey That Changed the Way We See the World

by Gerard Helferich

247 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: jordantaylor

59

4,827 members

146 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: jordantaylor

60

The Sunne in Splendour

by Sharon Kay Penman

2,390 members

78 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: jordantaylor

61

A Hologram for the King

1,702 members

70 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: jordantaylor

62

The Black Stallion

by Walter Farley

5,035 members

57 reviews

4

Member: jordantaylor

63

The Poisonwood Bible

by Barbara Kingsolver

26,400 members

502 reviews

4.2

Member: jordantaylor

64

Confessions of a Surgeon: The Good, The Bad, and the Complicated... Life Behind the O.R. Doors

by Paul A. Ruggieri

109 members

3 reviews

3

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65

The Road to Wellville

1,679 members

35 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: jordantaylor

66

by Michelle Moran

1,046 members

96 reviews

4

Member: jordantaylor

67

Ruined by Reading: A Life in Books

by Lynne Sharon Schwartz

837 members

25 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: jordantaylor

68

Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration Into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel

2,519 members

52 reviews

3.8

Member: jordantaylor

69

Rivals in the Tudor Court

98 members

13 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: jordantaylor

70

The Midwife of Venice

by Roberta Rich

635 members

47 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: jordantaylor

71

Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul

by Karen Abbott

1,530 members

53 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: jordantaylor

72

The Devil's Dictionary

by Ambrose Bierce

4,285 members

50 reviews

4.1

Member: jordantaylor

73

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

by Atul Gawande

3,127 members

84 reviews

4.1

Member: jordantaylor

74

Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure

by Michael Chabon

2,924 members

141 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: jordantaylor

75

So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading

1,451 members

79 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: jordantaylor

76

Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation

by Charles Glass

505 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: jordantaylor

77

Toscanini's Fumble: And Other Tales of Clinical Neurology

by Harold L. Klawans

129 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: jordantaylor

78

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

by Ransom Riggs

19,456 members

1,137 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: jordantaylor

79

Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

by Atul Gawande

2,217 members

69 reviews

4.1

Member: jordantaylor

80

The World Without Us

by Alan Weisman

5,945 members

188 reviews

3.8

Member: jordantaylor

81

Washington Square

4,419 members

88 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: jordantaylor

82

A Book of Ages: An Eccentric Miscellany of Great and Offbeat Moments in the Lives of the Famous and Infamous, Ages 1 to 100

45 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: jordantaylor

83

My Education: A Book of Dreams

by William S. Burroughs

560 members

1 review

½ 3.4

Member: jordantaylor

84

by Arthur Phillips

1,469 members

28 reviews

3.2

Member: jordantaylor

85

Intern: A Doctor's Initiation

by Sandeep Jauhar

338 members

12 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: jordantaylor

86

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

by Michael Chabon

18,863 members

415 reviews

4.2

Member: jordantaylor

87

The Hunger Games

by Suzanne Collins

64,884 members

3,496 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: jordantaylor

88

by William Safire

408 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: jordantaylor

89

by Eugene O'Neill

149 members

4 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: jordantaylor

90

The Emperor Jones

by Eugene O'Neill

205 members

2 reviews

3.1

Member: jordantaylor

91

The Human Stain

6,597 members

97 reviews

3.8

Member: jordantaylor

92

The Nympho and Other Maniacs: The Lives, the Loves and the Sexual Adventures of Some Scandalous and Liberated Ladies

by Irving Wallace

190 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: jordantaylor

93

No One Is Here Except All of Us

by Ramona Ausubel

405 members

36 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: jordantaylor

94

The Shawl: A Story and Novella

by Cynthia Ozick

897 members

24 reviews

3.9

Member: jordantaylor

95

by Louis Joseph Vance

18 members

½ 3.5

Member: jordantaylor

96

The Torrents of Spring

by Ernest Hemingway

646 members

13 reviews

3.1

Member: jordantaylor

97

The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America

6,411 members

130 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: jordantaylor

98

Fortune Made His Sword

by Martha Rofheart

156 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: jordantaylor

99

A Light in the Attic: Poems and Drawings

by Shel Silverstein

10,745 members

207 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: jordantaylor

100

by Flannery O'Connor

3,883 members

112 reviews

3.8

Member: jordantaylor

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May 2017
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