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Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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3.57 avg rating — 630,486 ratings
"The greatest American novel ever written. Possibly the greatest novel period. "
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U.S. Constitution (Saddlewire) (Books of American Wisdom)
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4.52 avg rating — 27,207 ratings
"The basis of our government and political philosophy."
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The Federalist Papers
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4.10 avg rating — 42,579 ratings
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The Declaration of Independence / The Constitution of the United States
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4.44 avg rating — 27,775 ratings
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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3.85 avg rating — 93,631 ratings
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The Civil War: A Narrative
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4.53 avg rating — 8,144 ratings
"The definitive history of the War Between the States. "
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The Scarlet Letter
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3.44 avg rating — 936,897 ratings
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Billy Budd, Sailor
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3.20 avg rating — 20,093 ratings
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The Sound and the Fury
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3.86 avg rating — 200,223 ratings
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As I Lay Dying
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3.72 avg rating — 192,466 ratings
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Light in August
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3.94 avg rating — 67,963 ratings
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Absalom, Absalom!
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3.99 avg rating — 49,192 ratings
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A Rose for Emily and Other Stories
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4.06 avg rating — 26,322 ratings
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Walden or, Life in the Woods
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3.77 avg rating — 207,557 ratings
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Leaves of Grass
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4.11 avg rating — 118,558 ratings
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
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3.77 avg rating — 157,382 ratings
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The Portable Thomas Jefferson
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4.08 avg rating — 214 ratings
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
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3.83 avg rating — 1,349,632 ratings
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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3.92 avg rating — 1,038,961 ratings
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Miss Lonelyhearts / The Day of the Locust
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3.89 avg rating — 10,524 ratings
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Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
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4.31 avg rating — 21,114 ratings
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Democracy in America
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4.06 avg rating — 27,490 ratings
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Tales
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4.33 avg rating — 2,993 ratings
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Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays
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4.32 avg rating — 6,274 ratings
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Memoirs and Selected Letters
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4.09 avg rating — 3,290 ratings
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Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry & Tales
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4.38 avg rating — 1,908 ratings
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Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry & Prose
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4.42 avg rating — 1,740 ratings
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Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works
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4.49 avg rating — 3,524 ratings
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Tennessee Williams: Plays 1937–1955
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4.48 avg rating — 831 ratings
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Nathaniel Hawthorne: Tales and Sketches
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4.18 avg rating — 1,304 ratings
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Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman
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4.18 avg rating — 2,280 ratings
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Speeches and Writings 1832–1858
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4.39 avg rating — 1,509 ratings
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Collected Plays 1944-1961
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4.23 avg rating — 439 ratings
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Collected Writings: Common Sense / The Crisis / Rights of Man / The Age of Reason / Pamphlets, Articles, and Letters
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4.26 avg rating — 1,740 ratings
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Writings
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4.24 avg rating — 270 ratings
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Road Novels 1957–1960: On the Road / The Dharma Bums / The Subterraneans / Tristessa / Lonesome Traveler / Journal Selections
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4.12 avg rating — 478 ratings
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Novels and Stories: The Call of the Wild / White Fang / The Sea-Wolf / Klondike and Other Stories
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4.28 avg rating — 1,124 ratings
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John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath and Other Writings 1936–1941
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4.41 avg rating — 957 ratings
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Writings
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4.28 avg rating — 198 ratings
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Complete Poems and Selected Letters
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4.35 avg rating — 208 ratings
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Writings
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4.17 avg rating — 204 ratings
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Autobiographies: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass / My Bondage and My Freedom / Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
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4.44 avg rating — 872 ratings
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Writings 1902-1910: The Varieties of Religious Experience / Pragmatism / A Pluralistic Universe / The Meaning of Truth / Some Problems of Philosophy / Essays
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4.23 avg rating — 411 ratings
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Writings: The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade / The Souls of Black Folk / Dusk of Dawn / Essays and Articles
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4.37 avg rating — 367 ratings
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Henry James: Complete Stories 1864–1874
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4.20 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
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4.15 avg rating — 238,742 ratings
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All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 153,669 ratings
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Why We Can't Wait
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4.55 avg rating — 9,334 ratings
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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4.37 avg rating — 297,778 ratings
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The Moviegoer
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3.64 avg rating — 31,744 ratings
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A Confederacy of Dunces
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3.89 avg rating — 305,726 ratings
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The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian (Conan the Cimmerian, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 15,083 ratings
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
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3.91 avg rating — 15,529 ratings
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The Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee
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4.06 avg rating — 678 ratings
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The Outsiders
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4.43 avg rating — 3,256 ratings
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.60 avg rating — 273,761 ratings
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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
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4.29 avg rating — 107,514 ratings
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The Old Man and the Sea
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3.81 avg rating — 1,358,736 ratings
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The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
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4.29 avg rating — 38,392 ratings
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The Waste Land and Other Poems
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4.21 avg rating — 75,015 ratings
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Our Town
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3.75 avg rating — 60,361 ratings
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The Crying of Lot 49
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3.69 avg rating — 100,948 ratings
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Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
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3.59 avg rating — 64,505 ratings
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