This is an alphabetical version. For a subjective ranked version see: Ranked: United States of America
This is part of Get To Know The Peoples Of The World
General History
- From Plato To NATO: The Idea of the West and Its Opponents by David Gress
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
- These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore
- (Circa 18th Century - 2015 C.E.) Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall
Political Structure
- How America Works... and Why it Doesn't by William Cooper
General / Fiction
- (Circa 1812 C.E.) 1812 by Anthony Mastro
- (Circa 20th Century C.E.) The River Why by David James Duncan
Topical History
- (Circa Partly 16th-18th Century, Primarily Mid-Late 19th Century C.E.) The Native American Experience: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, The Fetterman Massacre, and Creek Mary's Blood by Dee Brown
- (Circa 16th - Early 21st Century C.E.) Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
- (Circa 18th Century C.E.) Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
- (Circa 18th - 21st Century C.E.) A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell
- (Circa Mid 19th Century C.E.) Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
- (Circa 1830s - 1880 C.E.) Crazy Horse by Larry McMurtry
- (Circa 1850-1880 C.E.) The Battle of the Little Bighorn: A Good Day To Die by Francis Hayes
- (Circa 19th-20th Century C.E.) Blessed Among Nations: How the World Made America by Eric Rauchway
- (Circa Early-Mid 20th Century C.E.) Black Boy by Richard Wright
- (Circa 1915-1970 C.E.) The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
- (Circa 20th Century C.E.) Gang of Five: Leaders at the Center of the Conservative Crusade by Nina J. Easton
- (Circa 20th Century C.E.) Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
- (Circa Mid 20th-Early 21st Century C.E.) Elevating Equity and Justice: 10 U.S. Supreme Court Cases Every Teacher Should Know by Robert Kim
- (Circa Late 20th-Early 21st Century C.E.) Fight Club Politics: How Partisanship Is Poisoning the U.S. House of Representatives by Juliet Eilperin
- (Circa Late 20th-Early 21st Century C.E.) Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
- (Circa 20th - Early 21st Century C.E.) Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America by Cullen Murphy
- (Circa 1980s - 2003 C.E.) Citizenship Papers by Wendell Berry
- (Circa Some pre-20th, Primarily 20th Century - 2018 C.E.) The Sovereignty Wars: Reconciling America with the World by Stewart Patrick
- (Circa 1945 Century - 2020 C.E.) Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
- (Circa 2010 - 2020 C.E.) Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter
Economic History
- (Circa 18th Century - 1885 C.E.) The National System Of Political Economy by Friedrich List
- (Circa 18th - Early 21st Century C.E.)Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age by Amy Klobuchar
- (Circa 19th Century C.E.) The Gold Ring: Jim Fisk, Jay Gould, and Black Friday, 1869 by Kenneth D. Ackerman
- (Circa 1913-1951 C.E.) A History Of The Federal Reserve: Volume 1, 1913-1951 by Allan H. Meltzer
- (Circa 1950s- 2007 C.E.) The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
- (Circa 1951-1969 C.E.) A History Of The Federal Reserve: Volume 2, Book 1, 1951-1969 by Allan H. Meltzer
- (Circa 1970-1986 C.E.) A History Of The Federal Reserve: Volume 2, Book 2 1970-1986 by Allan H. Meltzer
- (Circa Late 20th - 2005 C.E.) America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy by Gar Alperovitz
- (Circa Mid 20th - Early 21st Century C.E.) The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World by Alan Greenspan
- (Circa 2006-2011 C.E.) Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy by Joseph E. Stiglitz
New York
- (Circa 17th Century C.E.) The Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto
- (Circa Mid-Late 19th Century C.E.) Boss Tweed: The Corrupt Pol Who Conceived the Soul of Modern New York by Kenneth D. Ackerman
- (Circa 20th Century C.E.) The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
New York / A Fictionalized Account
- (Circa Early 20th Century C.E.) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- (Circa 1959 C.E.) Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
New Jersey
- (Circa 1950s - 2011 C.E.) Woman in Hiding: A True Tale of Backdoor Abuse, Dark Secrets & Other Evil Deeds by Kathleen Hoy Foley
Colorado / A Fictionalized Account
Denver
- (Circa 1692-1963 C.E.) The Bookseller by Cynthia Swanson
Connecticut / A Fictionalized Account
- (Circa 1970s) The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
Pennsylvania / A Fictionalized Account
- (Circa 1920s-1930s) The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
Philosophical Background
- The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap by Gish Jen
- (Circa 20th Century - 2022 C.E.) The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America by Verlan Lewis, Hyrum Lewis