American Fiction

Fiction with an American setting.

The Rest of Our Lives
The Left and the Lucky
The Golden Boy
Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
Kick the Latch
Lazarus Man
Shock Induction: A Novel
Zorrie
Mule Boy
Hangman
Groundskeeping
The Uncharted Flight of Olivia West
The Wheel of Doll (The Doll Series, #2)
Mecca
American Spirits
The Great Gatsby
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Catcher in the Rye
Of Mice and Men
The Old Man and the Sea
The Grapes of Wrath
Yol
Slaughterhouse-Five
East of Eden
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
The Scarlet Letter
On the Road
The Sun Also Rises
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Street of Yearning by Theron MontgomeryAt Home in Mitford by Jan KaronCold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann BurnsThe Box M Gang and the Army by Mark L RedmondThe All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg
Vintage Fiction
45 books — 31 voters

U Got to Have U Some Fun by Andrew HarklessThe World According to Garp by John IrvingDon't Stop the Carnival by Herman WoukStoner by John  WilliamsRestore your Dreamland  by Yasser Negm
Books About The Everyman
8 books — 5 voters
Two Rivers by Zoe SaadiaRide the Wind by Lucia St. Clair RobsonAt Road's End by Zoe SaadiaPanther in the Sky by James Alexander ThomThe Peacekeeper by Zoe Saadia
Native American Historical Fiction
284 books — 285 voters

Beebo Brinker by Ann BannonOdd Girl Out by Ann BannonI Am a Woman by Ann BannonLesbian Pulp Fiction by Katherine V. ForrestWomen's Barracks by Tereska Torrès
Lesbian pulp fiction
64 books — 23 voters


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― R. Gerry Fabian, Just Out Of Reach

Shirley Jackson
“ All of the village was of a piece, a time, and a style; it was as though the people needed the ugliness of the village, and fed on it. The houses and the stores seemed to have been set up in contemptuous haste to provide shelter for the drab and the unpleasant, and the Rochester house and the Blackwood house and even the town hall had been brought here perhaps accidentally from some far lovely country where people lived with grace. Perhaps the fine houses had been captured—perhaps as punishment ...more ”
― Shirley Jackson

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