America

America

A year (2025) long deep dive into America, alternating between fiction and non fiction.

Read

  • Party of the People, Ruffini
  • East of Eden, Steinbeck
  • American Heretics, Copulsky
  • Slaughterhouse Five, Vonnegut
  • The Unwinding, Packer
  • Albion’s Seed, Hackett Fischer
  • The Road, McCarthy
  • Born Fighting, Webb
  • Decadent Society, Douthat
  • The Bonfire of the Vanities, Wolfe
  • Bobos in paradise, Brooks
  • Ethan Frome, Wharton
  • One Billion Americans, Yglesias
  • On the Road, Kerouac
  • Between Two World, Gaskill
  • As I Lay Dying, Faulkner

To read

Fiction

  • White Noise, DeLillo
  • Atlas shrugged, Rand
  • Old man and the sea, Hemingway
  • Tropic of cancer, Miller
  • Song of solomon, Morrison
  • Biography of x, Lacey
  • My year of rest and relaxation, Moshfegh
  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Stowe
  • Infinite Jest, Wallace
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain
  • James, Everett

Non-fiction

  • Class, Fussell
  • American colonies, Taylor
  • African founders, Fischer
  • The nine nations of north america, Garreau
  • The Other One Percent Chakravorty
  • How the Irish Became White, Ignatiev
  • Hillbilly Elegy, Vance
  • The Promised Land, Antin
  • Harvest of Empire, González
  • The Chinese in America, Chang
  • Coming Apart, Murray
  • Empire of their own, Gabler
  • The Shaping of America, Meinig
  • Safe Passage, Schake
  • The Upswing, Putnam
  • Abundance, Klein, Thompson
  • Democracy in America, Tocqueville