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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 406 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,021,409 ratings — published 1925
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 387 times as american-classics)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,995,567 ratings — published 1960
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 320 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,949,175 ratings — published 1951
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 302 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,888,260 ratings — published 1937
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 235 times as american-classics)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,008,976 ratings — published 1939
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 225 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,346,333 ratings — published 1885
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 190 times as american-classics)
avg rating 4.45 — 668,474 ratings — published 1952
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 189 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.44 — 930,593 ratings — published 1850
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 177 times as american-classics)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,499,851 ratings — published 1868
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 165 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,340,910 ratings — published 1952
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,908,958 ratings — published 1953
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,031,428 ratings — published 1876
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.57 — 624,763 ratings — published 1851
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as american-classics)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,503,442 ratings — published 1969
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.79 — 501,720 ratings — published 1926
A Farewell to Arms (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.82 — 360,185 ratings — published 1929
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as american-classics)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,264,350 ratings — published 1963
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.61 — 453,833 ratings — published 1957
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as american-classics)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,263,963 ratings — published 1936
The Age of Innocence (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.97 — 199,877 ratings — published 1920
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.99 — 322,485 ratings — published 1940
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.99 — 393,662 ratings — published 1937
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.99 — 895,115 ratings — published 1961
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.61 — 470,466 ratings — published 1953
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as american-classics)
avg rating 4.20 — 787,775 ratings — published 1962
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.86 — 198,515 ratings — published 1929
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as american-classics)
avg rating 4.28 — 762,486 ratings — published 1982
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as american-classics)
avg rating 4.30 — 521,745 ratings — published 1943
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.92 — 244,852 ratings — published 1852
The Call of the Wild (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.92 — 479,880 ratings — published 1903
The House of Mirth (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.98 — 107,483 ratings — published 1905
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.72 — 190,271 ratings — published 1930
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as american-classics)
avg rating 4.09 — 742,413 ratings — published 1966
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.98 — 501,223 ratings — published 1987
The Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.69 — 230,478 ratings — published 1899
Ethan Frome (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.46 — 140,172 ratings — published 1911
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.77 — 206,328 ratings — published 1854
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.59 — 262,790 ratings — published 1949
Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
by (shelved 65 times as american-classics)
avg rating 4.06 — 157,756 ratings — published 1943
The Pearl (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.58 — 279,338 ratings — published 1947
My Ántonia (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.85 — 149,620 ratings — published 1918
Tender Is the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.77 — 151,548 ratings — published 1934
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.85 — 254,175 ratings — published 1958
The Red Badge of Courage (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.30 — 110,990 ratings — published 1894
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.92 — 204,416 ratings — published 1952
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.98 — 338,122 ratings — published 1947
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as american-classics)
avg rating 4.14 — 310,853 ratings — published 1970
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 51 times as american-classics)
avg rating 4.30 — 589,789 ratings — published 1969
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as american-classics)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,604,741 ratings — published 1948
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 50 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.87 — 961,925 ratings — published 1955
“I came trusting them. They beat me with rods of dullness. They don't know, they don't understand how agonizing their complacent dullness is. Like ants and August sun on a wound." - Carol Kennicott”
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― War Is a Racket
― War Is a Racket
