slauderdale's votes on the list Esquire's "The 26 Most American Books of All Time" (Jun 17, 2026)

Listopia > slauderdale's votes on the list Esquire's "The 26 Most American Books of All Time" (Jun 17, 2026) (26 Books)

1	American Dictionary of the English Language by Noah Webster 4.64 avg rating — 266 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by an American Slave Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 4.39 avg rating — 108 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville 3.57 avg rating — 632,835 ratings slauderdale added it See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	The personal memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant; the complete annotated edition by Ulysses S. (John F. Marszalek ed. with David S. Nolen and Louie P. Gallo) Grant 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) (The Oxford Mark Twain) New of 1885 edition by Twain, Mark (1996) Hardcover by Unknown Author really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 399,217 ratings slauderdale added it See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer 3.95 avg rating — 26,813 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White 4.21 avg rating — 2,099,267 ratings slauderdale added it See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin 4.06 avg rating — 87,160 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	On the Road by Jack Kerouac 3.61 avg rating — 458,699 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	The Gay Place by Billy Lee Brammer 3.93 avg rating — 484 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	True Grit by Charles Portis 4.17 avg rating — 79,545 ratings slauderdale added it See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion 3.90 avg rating — 98,894 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro 4.53 avg rating — 31,310 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll by Greil Marcus 4.04 avg rating — 3,611 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison 4.17 avg rating — 134,188 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe (1980-11-08) by Tom Wolfe 4.23 avg rating — 56,902 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy 4.14 avg rating — 242,138 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author) 4.16 avg rating — 2,544,807 ratings slauderdale added it See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1) by Larry McMurtry 4.60 avg rating — 280,331 ratings slauderdale added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace 4.25 avg rating — 105,327 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	It Never Rains in Tiger Stadium: Football and the Game of Life by John Ed Bradley really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 688 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (Goodreads Author) 4.27 avg rating — 1,000,160 ratings slauderdale added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 151,891 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders 3.75 avg rating — 184,429 ratings slauderdale added it See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	There There by Tommy Orange (Goodreads Author) 3.97 avg rating — 234,749 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars