Ranked: United States of America

This is a subjective Ranked version of Intriguing Connections: United States of America

This is part of Get To Know The Peoples Of The World

General History

1. These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore
2. A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
3. From Plato To NATO: The Idea of the West and Its Opponents by David Gress

1. (Circa 20th Century - 2015 C.E.) Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall

Political Structure

1. How America Works... and Why it Doesn't by William Cooper

General / Fiction

1. (Circa 20th Century C.E.) The River Why by David James Duncan
2. (Circa 1812 C.E.) 1812 by Anthony Mastro

Topical History

1. (Circa 18th Century C.E.) Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
2. (Circa 18th - 21st Century C.E.) A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell
3. (Circa 2010 - 2020 C.E.) Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter
4. (Circa 16th - Early 21st Century C.E.) Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
5. (Circa Some pre-20th, Primarily 20th Century - 2018 C.E.) The Sovereignty Wars: Reconciling America with the World by Stewart Patrick
6. (Circa 20th Century C.E.) Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
7. (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
8. (Circa 1945 Century - 2020 C.E.) Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
9. (Circa Early-Mid 20th Century C.E.) Black Boy by Richard Wright
10. (Circa 20th - 2012 Century C.E.) Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds by Jim Sterba
11. (Circa 20th - Early 21st Century C.E.) Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America by Cullen Murphy
12. (Circa 1980s - 2003 C.E.) Citizenship Papers by Wendell Berry
13. (Circa Late 20th-Early 21st Century C.E.) Fight Club Politics: How Partisanship Is Poisoning the U.S. House of Representatives by Juliet Eilperin
14. (Circa 1830s - 1880 C.E.)  Crazy Horse by Larry McMurtry
15. (Circa Late 20th-Early 21st Century C.E.) Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
16. (Circa 1915-1970 C.E.) The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
17. (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
18. (Circa 19th-20th Century C.E.) Blessed Among Nations: How the World Made America by Eric Rauchway
19. (Circa 20th Century C.E.) Gang of Five: Leaders at the Center of the Conservative Crusade by Nina J. Easton
20. (Circa Mid 19th Century C.E.) Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
21. (Circa 1850-1880 C.E.) The Battle of the Little Bighorn: A Good Day To Die by Francis Hayes

Economic History

1. (Circa 18th - Early 21st Century C.E.) Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age by Amy Klobuchar
2. (Circa 1950s- 2007 C.E.)  The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
3. (Circa Mid 20th - Early 21st Century C.E.) The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World by Alan Greenspan
4. (Circa 2006-2011 C.E.) Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy by Joseph E. Stiglitz
5. (Circa 19th Century C.E.) The Gold Ring: Jim Fisk, Jay Gould, and Black Friday, 1869 by Kenneth D. Ackerman
6. (Circa 1913-1951 C.E.) A History Of The Federal Reserve: Volume 1, 1913-1951 by Allan H. Meltzer
7. (Circa 1951-1969 C.E.) A History Of The Federal Reserve: Volume 2, Book 1, 1951-1969 by Allan H. Meltzer
8. (Circa 1970-1986 C.E.) A History Of The Federal Reserve: Volume 2, Book 2 1970-1986 by Allan H. Meltzer
9. (Circa Late 20th - 2005 C.E.) America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy by Gar Alperovitz
10. (Circa 18th Century - 1885 C.E.) The National System Of Political Economy by Friedrich List

Colorado / A Fictionalized Account

Denver

1. (Circa 1692-1963 C.E.) The Bookseller by Cynthia Swanson

New York

1. (Circa 20th Century C.E.) The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
2. (Circa 17th Century C.E.) The Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto
3. (Circa Mid-Late 19th Century C.E.) Boss Tweed: The Corrupt Pol Who Conceived the Soul of Modern New York by Kenneth D. Ackerman

New York / A Fictionalized Account

1. (Circa 1959 C.E.) Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
2. (Circa Early 20th Century C.E.) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

New Jersey

1. (Circa 1950s - 2011 C.E.) Woman in Hiding: A True Tale of Backdoor Abuse, Dark Secrets & Other Evil Deeds by Kathleen Hoy Foley

Connecticut / A Fictionalized Account

1. (Circa 1970s) The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin

Pennsylvania / A Fictionalized Account

1. (Circa 1920s-1930s) The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

Philosophical Background

1. (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
2. The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap by Gish Jen