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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 1573 times as american)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,147,592 ratings — published 1925
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 1294 times as american)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,015,410 ratings — published 1951
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 1278 times as american)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,128,235 ratings — published 1960
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 1126 times as american)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,954,565 ratings — published 1937
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 977 times as american)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,377,764 ratings — published 1952
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 842 times as american)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,528,994 ratings — published 1969
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 803 times as american)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,354,385 ratings — published 1885
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 787 times as american)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,028,783 ratings — published 1939
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 784 times as american)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,994,545 ratings — published 1963
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 706 times as american)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,317,452 ratings — published 1963
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 661 times as american)
avg rating 3.57 — 635,784 ratings — published 1851
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 636 times as american)
avg rating 4.46 — 729,054 ratings — published 1952
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 602 times as american)
avg rating 3.99 — 905,226 ratings — published 1961
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 599 times as american)
avg rating 3.78 — 511,754 ratings — published 1926
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 590 times as american)
avg rating 3.61 — 460,569 ratings — published 1957
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 569 times as american)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,046,322 ratings — published 1876
Yol (Paperback)
by (shelved 552 times as american)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,089,472 ratings — published 2006
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 540 times as american)
avg rating 3.44 — 942,542 ratings — published 1850
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 526 times as american)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,544,357 ratings — published 1868
A Farewell to Arms (Paperback)
by (shelved 516 times as american)
avg rating 3.82 — 367,530 ratings — published 1929
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 504 times as american)
avg rating 3.86 — 201,814 ratings — published 1929
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 502 times as american)
avg rating 3.99 — 515,064 ratings — published 1987
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 479 times as american)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,126,891 ratings — published 1992
Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 473 times as american)
avg rating 4.36 — 305,065 ratings — published 1965
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 466 times as american)
avg rating 4.20 — 796,296 ratings — published 1962
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 438 times as american)
avg rating 4.09 — 756,542 ratings — published 1966
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 437 times as american)
avg rating 3.72 — 194,612 ratings — published 1930
Cat’s Cradle (Paperback)
by (shelved 436 times as american)
avg rating 4.15 — 449,569 ratings — published 1963
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 413 times as american)
avg rating 3.87 — 979,750 ratings — published 1955
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 407 times as american)
avg rating 4.28 — 773,635 ratings — published 1982
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 406 times as american)
avg rating 4.14 — 246,194 ratings — published 1985
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 403 times as american)
avg rating 3.99 — 327,847 ratings — published 1940
The Age of Innocence (Paperback)
by (shelved 390 times as american)
avg rating 3.98 — 204,459 ratings — published 1920
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 387 times as american)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,287,254 ratings — published 2008
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 374 times as american)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,272,078 ratings — published 1936
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 366 times as american)
avg rating 3.89 — 308,715 ratings — published 1980
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 353 times as american)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,084,903 ratings — published 2013
Tender Is the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 348 times as american)
avg rating 3.76 — 154,201 ratings — published 1934
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 347 times as american)
avg rating 3.85 — 257,343 ratings — published 1958
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 341 times as american)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,711,107 ratings — published 1965
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 340 times as american)
avg rating 3.60 — 267,006 ratings — published 1949
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 338 times as american)
avg rating 3.80 — 382,536 ratings — published 1991
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 337 times as american)
avg rating 3.93 — 206,928 ratings — published 1952
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 335 times as american)
avg rating 4.00 — 400,936 ratings — published 1937
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 330 times as american)
avg rating 3.98 — 341,773 ratings — published 1947
Franny and Zooey (Paperback)
by (shelved 326 times as american)
avg rating 3.95 — 246,496 ratings — published 1957
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 326 times as american)
avg rating 4.34 — 302,725 ratings — published 1956
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 320 times as american)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,585,717 ratings — published 2003
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 319 times as american)
avg rating 4.18 — 664,705 ratings — published 1996
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 318 times as american)
avg rating 4.09 — 535,406 ratings — published 1968
“And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”
― A Man Without a Country
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”
― A Man Without a Country
“Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.”
― Screening History
― Screening History
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