American Literature

A country arguing with itself on the page. The American literary tradition — frontier and city, immigration and inheritance, and the promise examined against the record.

On the Place & Period shelf.

Books shelved as American Literature

• The Blacktongue Thief — Christopher Buehlman
• Death of the Author — Nnedi Okorafor
• Jade Legacy — Fonda Lee
• Foundation (Foundation, #1) — Isaac Asimov
• The Naked Sun — Isaac Asimov
• The Way of Kings — Brandon Sanderson
• The Last Flight — Julie Clark
• Barbarian Lover — Ruby Dixon
• La Casa de los Siete Tejados — Nathaniel Hawthorne
• A Deadly Education — Naomi Novik
• The Fires of Heaven — Robert Jordan
• Immaculate Conception — Ling Ling Huang
• A Little Life — Hanya Yanagihara
• Brimstone — Callie Hart
• The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories — Ken Liu
• Trouble with the Cursed — Kim Harrison
• The Ten Thousand Doors of January — Alix E. Harrow
• You, with a View — Jessica Joyce
• Sky Daddy — Kate Folk
• Breakfast of Champions — Kurt Vonnegut
• Buffalo Hunter Hunter — Stephen Graham Jones
• Extended Stay — Juan Martinez
• The Last White Man — Mohsin Hamid
• The Unremembered Girl — Eliza Maxwell

Related genres

• Historical Fiction
• International Fiction
• East Asian Literary Fiction
• Irish Literature
• French Literature
• Southern Fiction
• Latin American Fiction
• Victorian Fiction
• Spanish Literature
• Japanese Literature
• Chicano & Latinx Fiction
• Western
• Mexican Literature
• Italian Literature
• Medieval
• African American Literature
• Russian Literature
• Appalachian
• Scottish Literature
• Korean Literature
• Caribbean Literature
• Canadian Literature

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