What better time to talk about patriotism and what it's like to be an American than Independence Day? And no matter how you feel about events going on in the country right now, you know deep down you have love and a pride in the idea of America, what it is, and what it could be with some work. Here are books that epitomize American life throughout history, the good and the bad.
Discussed:
Killers of the Flower Moon - David Grann
There, There - Tommy Orange
Round House and The Sentence - Louise Erdrich
Flight - Sherman Alexie
Under the Banner of Heaven - Jon Krakauer
The Witches - Stacy Schiff
Five Days at Memorial - Sheri Fink
1776 - David McCullough
Band of Brothers - Stephen E. Ambrose
The Good Soldiers and Thank You For Your Service - David Finkel
War Dogs - Rebecca Frankel
Midnight Assassin - Skip Hollandsworth
The Stranger Beside Me - Ann Rule
Black Dahlia - James Ellroy
Devil in the White City - Erik Larson
I'll Be Gone In the Dark - Michelle McNamara
Missoula - Jon Krakauer
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys and Harlem Shuffle - Coleson Whitehead
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Hate You Give - Angie Thomas
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
Twelve Years a Slave - Solomon Northup
I am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter - Erika L. Sanchez
Ask a Mexican - Gustavo Arellano
The Devil's Highway - Luis Alberto Urrea
Operation Pedro Pan - Yvonne Conde
Hillbilly Elegy - JD Vance
Educated - Tara Westover
Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
Malcom X, autobiography
Lost Continent and I'm a Stranger Here Myself and A Walk In the Woods - Bill Bryson
Book Woman of Troublesome Creek - Kim Michele Richardson
The Great Alone - Kristin Hannah
Small Great Things - Jodi Picoult
This Is Where It Ends - Marieke Nijkamp
Alex & Eliza - Melissa de la Cruz
The Help - Kathryn Stockett
Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chobsky
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
The Crucible - Arthur Miller
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

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