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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 410 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,109,614 ratings — published 1925
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 391 times as american-classics)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,088,166 ratings — published 1960
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 324 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,994,109 ratings — published 1951
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 310 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,933,255 ratings — published 1937
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 242 times as american-classics)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,022,146 ratings — published 1939
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 229 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,351,245 ratings — published 1885
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 195 times as american-classics)
avg rating 4.45 — 706,050 ratings — published 1952
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 193 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.44 — 938,959 ratings — published 1850
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 181 times as american-classics)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,530,662 ratings — published 1868
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 170 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,365,457 ratings — published 1952
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,966,455 ratings — published 1963
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,041,645 ratings — published 1876
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.57 — 632,272 ratings — published 1851
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as american-classics)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,520,826 ratings — published 1969
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.78 — 508,599 ratings — published 1926
A Farewell to Arms (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.82 — 365,258 ratings — published 1929
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as american-classics)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,299,870 ratings — published 1963
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.61 — 458,330 ratings — published 1957
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as american-classics)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,269,520 ratings — published 1936
The Age of Innocence (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.97 — 202,936 ratings — published 1920
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.99 — 326,015 ratings — published 1940
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.99 — 902,114 ratings — published 1961
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.99 — 398,859 ratings — published 1937
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.86 — 200,734 ratings — published 1929
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.61 — 475,087 ratings — published 1953
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as american-classics)
avg rating 4.20 — 793,573 ratings — published 1962
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as american-classics)
avg rating 4.28 — 770,165 ratings — published 1982
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as american-classics)
avg rating 4.30 — 530,224 ratings — published 1943
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.92 — 246,531 ratings — published 1852
The Call of the Wild (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.92 — 485,350 ratings — published 1903
The House of Mirth (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.98 — 108,815 ratings — published 1905
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.72 — 193,248 ratings — published 1930
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.99 — 510,793 ratings — published 1987
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as american-classics)
avg rating 4.09 — 751,888 ratings — published 1966
The Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.69 — 232,742 ratings — published 1899
Ethan Frome (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.47 — 141,624 ratings — published 1911
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.77 — 207,904 ratings — published 1854
The Pearl (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.59 — 287,427 ratings — published 1947
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.59 — 265,836 ratings — published 1949
Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as american-classics)
avg rating 4.06 — 160,692 ratings — published 1943
Tender Is the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.77 — 153,320 ratings — published 1934
My Ántonia (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.85 — 151,539 ratings — published 1918
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.85 — 256,350 ratings — published 1958
The Red Badge of Courage (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.30 — 111,685 ratings — published 1894
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as american-classics)
avg rating 4.14 — 318,959 ratings — published 1970
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.92 — 206,193 ratings — published 1952
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.98 — 340,653 ratings — published 1947
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 52 times as american-classics)
avg rating 3.87 — 973,691 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 — 595,877 ratings — published 1969
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as american-classics)
avg rating 4.06 — 383,306 ratings — published 1892
“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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