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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as american-authors)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,981,700 ratings — published 1925
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as american-authors)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,954,022 ratings — published 1960
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as american-authors)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,926,161 ratings — published 1951
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as american-authors)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,880,995 ratings — published 1953
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as american-authors)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,329,745 ratings — published 1952
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 53 times as american-authors)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,485,524 ratings — published 1868
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 53 times as american-authors)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,342,956 ratings — published 1885
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as american-authors)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,868,122 ratings — published 1937
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as american-authors)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,247,790 ratings — published 1963
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as american-authors)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,495,315 ratings — published 1969
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as american-authors)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,018,268 ratings — published 2008
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 43 times as american-authors)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,541,418 ratings — published 2003
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as american-authors)
avg rating 4.44 — 655,726 ratings — published 1952
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as american-authors)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,003,038 ratings — published 1939
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as american-authors)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,769,867 ratings — published 2012
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 38 times as american-authors)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,207,534 ratings — published 2009
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as american-authors)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,051,432 ratings — published 2006
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 36 times as american-authors)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,765,448 ratings — published 2010
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as american-authors)
avg rating 3.61 — 451,673 ratings — published 1957
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as american-authors)
avg rating 4.20 — 784,726 ratings — published 1962
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as american-authors)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,054,898 ratings — published 1992
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as american-authors)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,026,663 ratings — published 1876
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as american-authors)
avg rating 3.57 — 620,928 ratings — published 1851
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as american-authors)
avg rating 3.44 — 926,395 ratings — published 1850
Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as american-authors)
avg rating 3.68 — 7,371,238 ratings — published 2005
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as american-authors)
avg rating 4.09 — 737,251 ratings — published 1966
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as american-authors)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,757,618 ratings — published 1996
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as american-authors)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,647,944 ratings — published 1965
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as american-authors)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,415,572 ratings — published 2000
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as american-authors)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,020,694 ratings — published 1999
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as american-authors)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,261,097 ratings — published 1936
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as american-authors)
avg rating 3.72 — 188,947 ratings — published 1930
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as american-authors)
avg rating 3.99 — 891,734 ratings — published 1961
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as american-authors)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,835,247 ratings — published 1993
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as american-authors)
avg rating 4.28 — 758,647 ratings — published 1982
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as american-authors)
avg rating 3.86 — 197,516 ratings — published 1929
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as american-authors)
avg rating 3.98 — 496,917 ratings — published 1987
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as american-authors)
avg rating 3.99 — 320,854 ratings — published 1940
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as american-authors)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,120,241 ratings — published 1997
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as american-authors)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,042,266 ratings — published 2009
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as american-authors)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,052,045 ratings — published 2013
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as american-authors)
avg rating 3.79 — 498,653 ratings — published 1926
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as american-authors)
avg rating 4.18 — 648,975 ratings — published 1996
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as american-authors)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,380,318 ratings — published 2018
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as american-authors)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,044,322 ratings — published 2011
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as american-authors)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,188,727 ratings — published 2017
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as american-authors)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,725,660 ratings — published 1977
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as american-authors)
avg rating 3.99 — 390,983 ratings — published 1937
New Moon (The Twilight Saga, #2)
by (shelved 24 times as american-authors)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,143,973 ratings — published 2006
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as american-authors)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,003,222 ratings — published 2014
“I belong to the whole world but America will always be my home country, because she adopted me and honored me as a son, when the country I was born in kicked me around like garbage.”
― Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
― Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“Millennials: We lost the genetic lottery. We graduated high school into terrorist attacks and wars. We graduated college into a recession and mounds of debt. We will never acquire the financial cushion, employment stability, and material possessions of our parents. We are often more educated, experienced, informed, and digitally fluent than prior generations, yet are constantly haunted by the trauma of coming of age during the detonation of the societal structure we were born into. But perhaps we are overlooking the silver lining. We will have less money to buy the material possessions that entrap us. We will have more compassion and empathy because our struggles have taught us that even the most privileged can fall from grace. We will have the courage to pursue our dreams because we have absolutely nothing to lose. We will experience the world through backpacking, couch surfing, and carrying on interesting conversations with adventurers in hostels because our bank accounts can't supply the Americanized resorts. Our hardships will obligate us to develop spiritual and intellectual substance. Maybe having roommates and buying our clothes at thrift stores isn't so horrible as long as we are making a point to pursue genuine happiness.”
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