Wow! Who knew we had so many books in the library with “America” in the title. The list continues here: (all are non-fiction, unless otherwise noted):
American Childhoods, by David Willis McCullough
Biographical Dictionary of Hispanic Americans, by Nicholas E. Meyer
The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Insects & Spiders, by Lorus & Margery Milne
The European Discovery of America, by Samuel Eliot Morison
America’s Seashore Wonderlands, by National Geographic Society
Life in Rural America, by National Geographic Society
The World of the American Indian, by National Geographic Society
I’m Third: An American Boy of Depression Years, by Robert A. Nordyde (biography)
Keeping Watch: A History of American Time, by Michael O’Malley
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, by Joyce Carol Oates
The New Oxford American Dictionary, by Oxford University Press
Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America, by Gregory Pardlo
A History of Latin America, by George Pendle
South to America, by Imani Perry
XIT: The American Cowboy, by Caleb Pirtle
The Trickster: A Study in American Indian Mythology, by Paul Radin
America’s Fascinating Indian Heritage, by Reader’s Digest
American Folklore and Legend, by Reader’s Digest
Discovering America’s Past, by Reader’s Digest
Treasury of American Humor, by Reader’s Digest
United States of Americana, by Kurt B. Reighley
The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth (fiction)
Bedside Book of Bad Girls: Outlaw Women of the American West, by Michael Rutter
30/30: Thirty American Stories from the Last Thirty Years, by Porter Shreve (fiction)
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, by Clint Smith
Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation, by Richard Norton Smith (biography)
Images of America, by Smithsonian Books
Images of America: Auburn, by Arthur Sommers
The Pocket Book of Verse: Great English and American Poems, by M.E. Speare
The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers, by Richard Spellenberg
Fusang: The Chinese Who Build America, by Stan Steiner
America’s Most Scenic Drives on the Nation’s Highways and Byways, by Robert Sullivan
Double Victory: A Multicultural History of America in World War II, by Ronald Takaki
The Native Americans: An Illustrated History, by David Hurst Thomas
Democracy in America, by Alex de Tocqueville
American Eve, by Paula Uruburu
The American Agent, by Jacqueline Winspear (fiction)
Spy: The Inside Story of How the FBI’s Robert Hanssen Betrayed America, by David Wise
Black Boy (American Hunger) // The Outsider, by Richard Wright
Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America, by Christopher Wylie
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2017, by Charles Yu (fiction)
And, there you have it folks. A total of 113 books with “America”, in some form, in their titles — gracing the shelves of the Downieville Library. And, the good news is that all of them (if I’m not mistaken) are available to be checked out by the lucky library patron who has a library card. That could be you! Is it?
So, now that you know where to do your research on “America”, I’ll be providing, in next week’s column, the answers to the “America” quiz that I posed for you a couple of weeks ago.