604 books
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266 voters
American Books
Showing 1-50 of 100,000
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 1551 times as american)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,020,912 ratings — published 1925
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 1273 times as american)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,948,937 ratings — published 1951
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 1269 times as american)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,995,010 ratings — published 1960
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 1096 times as american)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,887,992 ratings — published 1937
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 944 times as american)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,340,759 ratings — published 1952
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 834 times as american)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,503,352 ratings — published 1969
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 793 times as american)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,346,296 ratings — published 1885
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 771 times as american)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,908,619 ratings — published 1953
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 768 times as american)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,008,903 ratings — published 1939
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 694 times as american)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,264,145 ratings — published 1963
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 641 times as american)
avg rating 3.57 — 624,717 ratings — published 1851
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 592 times as american)
avg rating 3.99 — 895,068 ratings — published 1961
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 591 times as american)
avg rating 4.45 — 668,296 ratings — published 1952
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 579 times as american)
avg rating 3.61 — 453,796 ratings — published 1957
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 574 times as american)
avg rating 3.79 — 501,683 ratings — published 1926
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 558 times as american)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,031,376 ratings — published 1876
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 535 times as american)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,060,985 ratings — published 2006
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 532 times as american)
avg rating 3.44 — 930,542 ratings — published 1850
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 513 times as american)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,499,687 ratings — published 1868
A Farewell to Arms (Paperback)
by (shelved 497 times as american)
avg rating 3.82 — 360,154 ratings — published 1929
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 491 times as american)
avg rating 3.86 — 198,503 ratings — published 1929
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 480 times as american)
avg rating 3.98 — 501,172 ratings — published 1987
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 463 times as american)
avg rating 4.20 — 787,728 ratings — published 1962
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 463 times as american)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,072,637 ratings — published 1992
Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 448 times as american)
avg rating 4.35 — 270,186 ratings — published 1965
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 429 times as american)
avg rating 4.09 — 742,348 ratings — published 1966
Cat’s Cradle (Paperback)
by (shelved 427 times as american)
avg rating 4.15 — 442,759 ratings — published 1963
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 423 times as american)
avg rating 3.72 — 190,250 ratings — published 1930
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 404 times as american)
avg rating 3.87 — 961,847 ratings — published 1955
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 398 times as american)
avg rating 4.28 — 762,438 ratings — published 1982
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 394 times as american)
avg rating 3.99 — 322,462 ratings — published 1940
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 387 times as american)
avg rating 4.15 — 231,526 ratings — published 1985
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 379 times as american)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,083,213 ratings — published 2008
The Age of Innocence (Paperback)
by (shelved 375 times as american)
avg rating 3.97 — 199,864 ratings — published 1920
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 368 times as american)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,263,932 ratings — published 1936
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 363 times as american)
avg rating 3.89 — 302,732 ratings — published 1980
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 352 times as american)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,060,305 ratings — published 2013
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 338 times as american)
avg rating 3.85 — 254,164 ratings — published 1958
Tender Is the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 338 times as american)
avg rating 3.77 — 151,539 ratings — published 1934
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 335 times as american)
avg rating 3.59 — 262,778 ratings — published 1949
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 334 times as american)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,664,635 ratings — published 1965
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 331 times as american)
avg rating 3.80 — 371,568 ratings — published 1991
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 330 times as american)
avg rating 3.99 — 393,633 ratings — published 1937
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 327 times as american)
avg rating 3.92 — 204,405 ratings — published 1952
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 325 times as american)
avg rating 3.98 — 338,104 ratings — published 1947
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 319 times as american)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,553,951 ratings — published 2003
Franny and Zooey (Paperback)
by (shelved 319 times as american)
avg rating 3.96 — 242,882 ratings — published 1957
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 315 times as american)
avg rating 4.18 — 653,026 ratings — published 1996
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 312 times as american)
avg rating 4.09 — 523,147 ratings — published 1968
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 311 times as american)
avg rating 4.34 — 272,041 ratings — published 1956
“You’re too beautiful for your own good. Once you leave, we’ll have to send some of the guards with you. You’ll never survive on your own, poor thing.”
― The Selection
― The Selection
“He must love you very much,' Gavril said once I had my footing.
I couldn't look at him. 'What makes you say that?' Gavril sighed. 'I've known Maxon since he was a child. He's never stood up to his father like that.”
― The Elite
I couldn't look at him. 'What makes you say that?' Gavril sighed. 'I've known Maxon since he was a child. He's never stood up to his father like that.”
― The Elite
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