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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 1567 times as american)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,106,783 ratings — published 1925
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 1285 times as american)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,992,533 ratings — published 1951
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 1276 times as american)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,085,165 ratings — published 1960
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 1115 times as american)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,931,668 ratings — published 1937
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 963 times as american)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,364,559 ratings — published 1952
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 837 times as american)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,520,261 ratings — published 1969
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 799 times as american)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,351,025 ratings — published 1885
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 782 times as american)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,021,665 ratings — published 1939
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 776 times as american)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,964,322 ratings — published 1963
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 700 times as american)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,298,541 ratings — published 1963
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 658 times as american)
avg rating 3.57 — 631,994 ratings — published 1851
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 619 times as american)
avg rating 4.45 — 704,582 ratings — published 1952
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 596 times as american)
avg rating 3.99 — 901,863 ratings — published 1961
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 593 times as american)
avg rating 3.78 — 508,381 ratings — published 1926
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 589 times as american)
avg rating 3.61 — 458,160 ratings — published 1957
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 566 times as american)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,041,293 ratings — published 1876
Yol (Paperback)
by (shelved 548 times as american)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,079,852 ratings — published 2006
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 543 times as american)
avg rating 3.44 — 938,669 ratings — published 1850
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 525 times as american)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,529,628 ratings — published 1868
A Farewell to Arms (Paperback)
by (shelved 511 times as american)
avg rating 3.82 — 365,052 ratings — published 1929
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 500 times as american)
avg rating 3.86 — 200,660 ratings — published 1929
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 496 times as american)
avg rating 3.99 — 510,500 ratings — published 1987
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 471 times as american)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,107,868 ratings — published 1992
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 465 times as american)
avg rating 4.20 — 793,377 ratings — published 1962
Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 460 times as american)
avg rating 4.36 — 292,910 ratings — published 1965
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 434 times as american)
avg rating 3.72 — 193,126 ratings — published 1930
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 434 times as american)
avg rating 4.09 — 751,541 ratings — published 1966
Cat’s Cradle (Paperback)
by (shelved 430 times as american)
avg rating 4.15 — 447,255 ratings — published 1963
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 414 times as american)
avg rating 3.87 — 973,287 ratings — published 1955
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 405 times as american)
avg rating 4.28 — 769,915 ratings — published 1982
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 401 times as american)
avg rating 4.14 — 241,002 ratings — published 1985
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 400 times as american)
avg rating 3.99 — 325,877 ratings — published 1940
The Age of Innocence (Paperback)
by (shelved 387 times as american)
avg rating 3.97 — 202,830 ratings — published 1920
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 384 times as american)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,220,725 ratings — published 2008
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 372 times as american)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,269,319 ratings — published 1936
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 365 times as american)
avg rating 3.89 — 306,612 ratings — published 1980
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 353 times as american)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,076,634 ratings — published 2013
Tender Is the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 346 times as american)
avg rating 3.77 — 153,248 ratings — published 1934
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 343 times as american)
avg rating 3.85 — 256,258 ratings — published 1958
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 339 times as american)
avg rating 3.59 — 265,721 ratings — published 1949
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 338 times as american)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,694,760 ratings — published 1965
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 336 times as american)
avg rating 3.92 — 206,139 ratings — published 1952
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 335 times as american)
avg rating 3.80 — 378,883 ratings — published 1991
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 333 times as american)
avg rating 3.99 — 398,678 ratings — published 1937
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 330 times as american)
avg rating 3.98 — 340,578 ratings — published 1947
Franny and Zooey (Paperback)
by (shelved 326 times as american)
avg rating 3.95 — 245,274 ratings — published 1957
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 322 times as american)
avg rating 4.34 — 290,605 ratings — published 1956
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 320 times as american)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,574,485 ratings — published 2003
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 317 times as american)
avg rating 4.09 — 531,162 ratings — published 1968
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 316 times as american)
avg rating 4.18 — 660,972 ratings — published 1996
“Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.”
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“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
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