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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 415 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,183,548 ratings — published 1925
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 390 times as american-classics)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,165,494 ratings — published 1960
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 325 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,034,752 ratings — published 1951
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 314 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,975,778 ratings — published 1937
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 243 times as american-classics)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,035,547 ratings — published 1939
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 230 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,357,737 ratings — published 1885
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 200 times as american-classics)
avg rating 4.46 — 769,567 ratings — published 1952
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 193 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.44 — 946,262 ratings — published 1850
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 188 times as american-classics)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,558,775 ratings — published 1868
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 173 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,388,786 ratings — published 1952
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,020,787 ratings — published 1963
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,050,856 ratings — published 1876
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.58 — 639,312 ratings — published 1851
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as american-classics)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,536,977 ratings — published 1969
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.78 — 514,791 ratings — published 1926
A Farewell to Arms (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.82 — 369,872 ratings — published 1929
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as american-classics)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,334,866 ratings — published 1963
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.61 — 462,639 ratings — published 1957
The Age of Innocence (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.98 — 205,996 ratings — published 1920
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as american-classics)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,274,772 ratings — published 1936
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.99 — 329,578 ratings — published 1940
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.99 — 908,514 ratings — published 1961
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as american-classics)
avg rating 4.00 — 403,433 ratings — published 1937
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.86 — 202,965 ratings — published 1929
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.61 — 480,169 ratings — published 1953
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as american-classics)
avg rating 4.20 — 799,070 ratings — published 1962
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as american-classics)
avg rating 4.31 — 537,962 ratings — published 1943
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as american-classics)
avg rating 4.28 — 777,250 ratings — published 1982
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.92 — 248,175 ratings — published 1852
The Call of the Wild (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.92 — 490,311 ratings — published 1903
The House of Mirth (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.98 — 110,058 ratings — published 1905
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.72 — 196,410 ratings — published 1930
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.99 — 520,073 ratings — published 1987
Ethan Frome (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.47 — 142,991 ratings — published 1911
The Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.69 — 235,152 ratings — published 1899
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as american-classics)
avg rating 4.09 — 761,925 ratings — published 1966
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.77 — 209,621 ratings — published 1854
The Pearl (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.59 — 295,927 ratings — published 1947
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.60 — 268,287 ratings — published 1949
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.85 — 258,444 ratings — published 1958
Tender Is the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.76 — 154,990 ratings — published 1934
Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
by (shelved 65 times as american-classics)
avg rating 4.06 — 163,741 ratings — published 1943
My Ántonia (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.85 — 153,288 ratings — published 1918
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.93 — 207,768 ratings — published 1952
The Red Badge of Courage (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.30 — 112,363 ratings — published 1894
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as american-classics)
avg rating 4.14 — 330,687 ratings — published 1970
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.98 — 343,014 ratings — published 1947
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 53 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.87 — 986,122 ratings — published 1955
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 52 times as american-classics)
avg rating 4.30 — 601,620 ratings — published 1969
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as american-classics)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,823,485 ratings — published 1949
“Victory or defeat will be determined by the skill and ingenuity of our scientists. If we put them to work making poison gas and more and more fiendish mechanical and explosive instruments of destruction, they will have no time for the constructive job of creating greater prosperity for all peoples.”
― War Is a Racket
― War Is a Racket
“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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