The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It
ByRichard Hofstadter
On Democracy
ByE.B. White(Foreword),Jon Meacham(Foreword)
The Name of War
ByJill Lepore
1998 • 5 Readers • 337 pages • 3.5
Liberty Is Sweet
ByWoody Holton
Civilization and Its Discontents
BySigmund Freud,James Strachey(Translator)
88 Readers • 3.8
Reaganland
ByRick Perlstein
Debt
ByDavid Graeber
2011 • 399 Readers • 534 pages • 4.1
American Midnight
ByAdam Hochschild
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
ByDavid Graeber
The Second Founding
ByEric Foner
A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present
ByHoward Zinn,Kathy Emery,+1 more
The War for America, 1775-1783
ByPiers Mackesy
The Education of Henry Adams
ByHenry Adams,Library of American Art Staff
#1 of 10 in The Oxford History of the United States
The Oxford history of the United States
ByRobert Middlekauff
The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker
ByDavid Remnick
Weimar Culture
ByPeter Gay
Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy
ByJames M. Fallows
The guns of August
ByBarbara Wertheim Tuchman
Lord of the Flies
ByWilliam Golding
1954 • 2,816 Readers • 208 pages • 3.6
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
ByDavid Graeber,David Wengrow
Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century
ByNicholas Dagen Bloom
Ignorance: How it drives science
ByStuart Firestein
John Quincy Adams: American Visionary
ByFred Kaplan
Thinking the Twentieth Century
ByTony Judt
Fiorello H. La Guardia and the Making of Modern New York
ByThomas Kessner
The Magic Mountain
ByThomas Mann
Reporting: Writings from The New Yorker
ByDavid Remnick
Grant
ByRon Chernow
Life Stories: Profiles from The New Yorker
BySusan Orlean,Mark Singer,+2 more
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
ByBarbara Ehrenreich
2001 • 236 Readers • 244 pages • 3.6
Rockefeller in Retrospect: The Governor's New York Legacy
ByT. Norman Hurd(Editor),Gerald Benjamin(Editor)
Means of Ascent
ByRobert A. Caro
2011 • 39 Readers • 592 pages • 4.6
#3 of 4 in The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Master of the Senate
ByRobert A. Caro
2002 • 56 Readers • 1,167 pages • 4.9
#1 of 4 in The Years of Lyndon Johnson
The Path to Power
ByRobert A. Caro
1990 • 64 Readers • 962 pages • 4.7
Jeeves Stories
ByP.G. Wodehouse
#1 of 3 in Die Danziger Trilogie
The Tin Drum
ByGünter Grass,Breon Mitchell(Translator)
1959 • 138 Readers • 592 pages • 4.1
Steppenwolf
ByHermann Hesse
1927 • 386 Readers • 4
Writings and Drawings
ByJames Thurber
Across the River and into the Trees
ByErnest Hemingway
The Plague
ByAlbert Camus,Robin Buss(Translator)
These Truths: A History of the United States
ByJill Lepore
Write If You Get Work : The Best of Bob and Ray
ByBob Elliott,Ray Goulding
The Theory of the Leisure Class
ByThorstein Veblen
Fragebogen
ByErnst von Salomon,Constantine Fitzgibbon,+1 more
1951 • 1 Reader • 525 pages
#3 of 3 in The Age of Roosevelt
The Politics of Upheaval 1935-36
ByArthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
1960 • 1 Reader
A.J. Liebling: World War II Writings
ByA.J. Liebling
The New American Militarism: How Americans are Seduced by War
ByAndrew J. Bacevich
Notes of a native son.
ByJames Baldwin
In the heart of the sea
ByNathaniel Philbrick
The Impeachment of Governor Sulzer: A Story of American Politics
ByMatthew L. Lifflander
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
ByThomas Mann
1901 • 96 Readers • 768 pages • 4
Our Man in Havana
ByGraham Greene
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
ByMichelle Alexander
El Hombre en Busca de Sentido
ByViktor E. Frankl
Roald Dahl's Short Story Collections
Prejudices: Fourth, Fifth, & Sixth Series
ByH.L. Mencken
Origins Of Totalitarianism
ByHannah Arendt
#1 of 3 in The Age of Roosevelt
The Crisis of the Old Order 1919-33
ByArthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
1957 • 3 Readers • 557 pages
Encyclopedia of New York State
ByPeter Eisenstadt
2005 • 1 Reader
Hudson's Merchants and Whalers: The Rise and Fall of a River Port, 1783-1850
ByMargaret B. Schram
#1 of 3 in The Mysteries of Nature Series
The Hidden Life of Trees
ByPeter Wohlleben,Jane Billinghurst(Translator),+1 more
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
ByHaruki Murakami
Reading Jazz: A Gathering of Autobiography, Reportage, and Criticism from 1919 to Now
ByRobert Gottlieb(Editor)
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery
ByMarsh, Henry
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
ByRobert M. Sapolsky
The Spirit Photographer
ByJon Michael Varese
2018 • 4 Readers • 397 pages • 2.5
Hiroshima
ByJohn Hersey
1946 • 200 Readers • 162 pages • 4.1
The Secret History of Wonder Woman
ByJill Lepore
The Great War and modern memory
ByPaul Fussell
The future does not compute
ByTalbott, Steve.
Class
ByPaul Fussell
Supreme city
ByMiller, Donald L.
Washington Square
ByHenry James
Gentlemen, Scholars and Scoundrels; A Treasury of Harper's Magazine
ByHorace Knowles(Editor)
Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War
ByFinley Peter Dunne