American Classics

Classics with a setting in America. May also be called 'Great American Novels.'

Please also reference Classics and Classic Literature.
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The Great Gatsby
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Catcher in the Rye
Of Mice and Men
The Grapes of Wrath
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
The Scarlet Letter
East of Eden
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
The Old Man and the Sea
Fahrenheit 451
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
The Sun Also Rises
Slaughterhouse-Five
A Perfect Day for Bananafish by J.D. SalingerIn Another Country by Ernest HemingwayAcross the River and into the Trees by Ernest HemingwayThis Side of Paradise by F. Scott FitzgeraldFrom Death to Morning by Thomas Wolfe
Banana Fish Anthology
24 books — 1 voter
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Ms. Abraham's American Classics
40 books — 7 voters


Sinclair Lewis
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Smedley D. Butler
Victory or defeat will be determined by the skill and ingenuity of our scientists. If we put them to work making poison gas and more and more fiendish mechanical and explosive instruments of destruction, they will have no time for the constructive job of creating greater prosperity for all peoples.
Smedley D. Butler, War Is a Racket

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