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American Fiction Books
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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,896,019 ratings — published 1925
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,863,538 ratings — published 1960
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,883,815 ratings — published 1951
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,826,596 ratings — published 1937
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,308,001 ratings — published 1952
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 992,088 ratings — published 1939
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,032,884 ratings — published 2006
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,480,022 ratings — published 1969
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 69 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,335,579 ratings — published 1885
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 4.44 — 634,579 ratings — published 1952
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,016,556 ratings — published 1876
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 3.61 — 447,351 ratings — published 1957
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 3.79 — 492,823 ratings — published 1926
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 3.44 — 917,816 ratings — published 1850
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 54 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,609,457 ratings — published 2018
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 218,843 ratings — published 1985
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 3.57 — 614,682 ratings — published 1851
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 3.99 — 317,536 ratings — published 1940
A Farewell to Arms (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 3.82 — 352,873 ratings — published 1929
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,214,316 ratings — published 1963
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 49 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,824,342 ratings — published 1953
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 48 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,452,926 ratings — published 1868
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 4.28 — 750,782 ratings — published 1982
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 48 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 3.98 — 489,284 ratings — published 1987
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 297,435 ratings — published 1980
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,014,060 ratings — published 2009
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,020,998 ratings — published 1992
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 3.99 — 885,428 ratings — published 1961
The Corrections (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 3.85 — 197,953 ratings — published 2001
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,037,360 ratings — published 2013
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 4.20 — 778,815 ratings — published 1962
Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 153,934 ratings — published 1943
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 3.86 — 195,711 ratings — published 1929
Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 4.35 — 245,589 ratings — published 1965
No Country for Old Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 246,001 ratings — published 2005
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 443,909 ratings — published 2016
The Age of Innocence (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 195,213 ratings — published 1920
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 145,907 ratings — published 1992
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 4.44 — 483,785 ratings — published 2024
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,309,476 ratings — published 2017
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,437,103 ratings — published 2012
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 3.99 — 119,198 ratings — published 1940
American Pastoral (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 3.95 — 88,117 ratings — published 1997
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 3.72 — 186,597 ratings — published 1930
Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 3.59 — 63,426 ratings — published 1960
Lincoln in the Bardo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 3.75 — 174,778 ratings — published 2017
The Pearl (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 3.57 — 270,818 ratings — published 1947
Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
by (shelved 36 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 3.86 — 267,501 ratings — published 2008
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,255,628 ratings — published 1936
My Ántonia (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as american-fiction)
avg rating 3.84 — 147,382 ratings — published 1918
“You have a notion, like Raynal, of natural liberties, and we all have them by virtue of our being human. But when those liberties are put under societal and cultural pressure, they become civil liberties, and those are contingent on hierarchy and situation. Am I close?"
Voltaire was scribbling on paper. "That was good, that was good. Say all of that again.”
― James
Voltaire was scribbling on paper. "That was good, that was good. Say all of that again.”
― James
“All of the village was of a piece, a time, and a style; it was as though the people needed the ugliness of the village, and fed on it. The houses and the stores seemed to have been set up in contemptuous haste to provide shelter for the drab and the unpleasant, and the Rochester house and the Blackwood house and even the town hall had been brought here perhaps accidentally from some far lovely country where people lived with grace. Perhaps the fine houses had been captured—perhaps as punishment for the Rochesters and the Blackwoods and their secret bad hearts?—and were held prisoner in the village; perhaps their slow rot was a sign of the ugliness of the villagers.”
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