The New American Nation Series
The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861
ByDavid Morris Potter
1976 • 10 Readers • 667 pages • 4
Woe Is I JR.
ByPatricia T. O'Conner
2007 • 6 Readers • 152 pages • 4
The World Is Flat
ByThomas L. Friedman
Bossypants
ByTina Fey(Author/Narrator)
Working Days
ByJohn Steinbeck
1989 • 12 Readers • 180 pages • 4
A Light in the Attic
ByShel Silverstein
Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics
ByAnonymous,Joe Klein
The Out-of-Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder
ByCarol Stock Kranowitz
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
ByAnne Lamott
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
ByMichael Pollan
The Return of Depression Economics
ByPaul Krugman
2008 • 10 Readers • 288 pages • 3.1
Woody Guthrie
ByJoe Klein
1980 • 2 Readers • 512 pages • 5
The Age of Reform
ByRichard Hofstadter
1955 • 6 Readers • 352 pages
No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan
ByRobert Shelton
1986 • 6 Readers • 576 pages • 5
Food Inc.
ByKarl Weber
Eaters of the Dead
ByMichael Crichton
Wish You Well
ByDavid Baldacci
The Kite Runner
ByKhaled Hosseini
Someone Knows My Name
ByLawrence Hill
Hope beneath our feet
ByMartin J. Keogh
1 Reader
A Thousand Splendid Suns
ByKhaled Hosseini
How We Decide
ByJonah Lehrer
State of Fear
ByMichael Crichton
The Road
ByCormac McCarthy
A Beautiful Mind
BySylvia Nasar
1998 • 123 Readers • 461 pages • 3.7
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
ByJon Krakauer
2003 • 334 Readers • 399 pages • 4
The Reader
ByBernhard Schlink
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
ByCharles C. Mann
The Elements of Style
ByWilliam Strunk Jr.
The Logic of Life
ByTim Harford
2008 • 10 Readers • 272 pages • 3
1984
ByGeorge Orwell
Congo
ByMichael Crichton
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
ByLynne Truss
Quantitative Eco-nomics: How Sustainable Are Our Economies?
ByPeter Bartelmus
Prey
ByMichael Crichton
The Optimistic Child
ByMartin E.P. Seligman
Five Minutes on Mondays
ByAlan Lurie
2011 • 1 Reader • 256 pages
Late, Lost, and Unprepared: A Parents' Guide to Helping Children with Executive Functioning
ByJoyce Cooper-Kahn,Laurie Dietzel
Game Theory for Applied Economists
ByRobert Gibbons
Air and Water Pollution Control: A Benefit-Cost Assessment
ByA. Myrick Freeman III
The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse
ByGregg Easterbrook
What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth
ByWendell Berry
2010 • 2 Readers
Silent spring
ByRachel Carson
Confessions of an eco sinner
ByFred Pearce
1 Reader
#4 of 10 in The Oxford History of the United States
Battle Cry of Freedom
ByJames M. McPherson
1984 • 91 Readers • 867 pages • 4.5
Culture of the Land
Stolen harvest : the hijacking of the global food supply
ByVandana Shiva
2000 • 5 Readers • 140 pages • 4.5
Great on the Job
ByJodi Glickman
#1 of 4 in The Wicked Years
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
ByGregory Maguire
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
ByMichael Pollan
#1 of 4 in Freakonomics
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
BySteven D. Levitt,Stephen J. Dubner
Leaf by Niggle
ByJ.R.R. Tolkien
The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
ByWendell Berry
1977 • 33 Readers • 246 pages • 4.5
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
ByMalcolm Gladwell,מלקולם גלדוול,+1 more
War and Peace
ByLeo Tolstoy
The Grapes of Wrath
ByJohn Steinbeck
Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies
ByDavid E. Nye
Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, And Fair
ByCarlo Petrini,Clara Furlan(Translator),+1 more
The World Without Us
ByAlan Weisman
The Pelican Brief
ByJohn Grisham
Coal River
ByMichael Shnayerson
2008 • 1 Reader
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
ByBill Bryson
Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think
ByBrian Wansink
2006 • 43 Readers • 215 pages • 4.2
A Short History of Nearly Everything
ByBill Bryson
The Client
ByJohn Grisham
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
ByWilliam McDonough
2002 • 37 Readers • 199 pages • 4.1
The Testament
ByJohn Grisham
No Logo
ByNaomi Klein
1999 • 142 Readers • 1,407 pages • 3.8
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
ByEric Schlosser
The Winter of Our Discontent
ByJohn Steinbeck
Clear and Present Danger
ByTom Clancy
The Mother Tongue
ByBill Bryson
1990 • 127 Readers • 270 pages • 3.8