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American Lit Books
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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 829 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,919,680 ratings — published 1925
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 639 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,888,841 ratings — published 1960
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 608 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,895,365 ratings — published 1951
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 549 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,837,441 ratings — published 1937
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 432 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,337,270 ratings — published 1885
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 413 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,313,590 ratings — published 1952
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 391 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.44 — 920,113 ratings — published 1850
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 381 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.03 — 994,684 ratings — published 1939
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 368 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,839,191 ratings — published 1953
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 342 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,461,768 ratings — published 1868
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 342 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,222,361 ratings — published 1963
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 332 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,483,803 ratings — published 1969
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 332 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.79 — 494,141 ratings — published 1926
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 330 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.44 — 639,056 ratings — published 1952
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 307 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.57 — 616,084 ratings — published 1851
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 295 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,019,111 ratings — published 1876
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 281 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 490,762 ratings — published 1987
A Farewell to Arms (Paperback)
by (shelved 278 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.82 — 353,914 ratings — published 1929
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 269 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.86 — 196,100 ratings — published 1929
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 262 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 886,969 ratings — published 1961
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 254 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.72 — 187,087 ratings — published 1930
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 249 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 386,648 ratings — published 1937
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 225 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,037,191 ratings — published 2006
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 215 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.28 — 752,486 ratings — published 1982
The Age of Innocence (Paperback)
by (shelved 207 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.97 — 195,801 ratings — published 1920
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 206 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.61 — 448,400 ratings — published 1957
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 205 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.61 — 464,360 ratings — published 1953
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 200 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 318,273 ratings — published 1940
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 196 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.20 — 780,220 ratings — published 1962
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 191 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.59 — 259,060 ratings — published 1949
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 202,056 ratings — published 1952
The Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 190 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.69 — 227,418 ratings — published 1899
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Paperback)
by (shelved 186 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 242,752 ratings — published 1852
Tender Is the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 180 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.77 — 149,737 ratings — published 1934
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 180 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,256,962 ratings — published 1936
The Pearl (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.57 — 271,997 ratings — published 1947
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.07 — 358,907 ratings — published 1892
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 165 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.13 — 301,217 ratings — published 1970
My Ántonia (Paperback)
by (shelved 164 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.84 — 147,699 ratings — published 1918
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,029,296 ratings — published 1992
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.30 — 512,632 ratings — published 1943
Ethan Frome (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.46 — 138,127 ratings — published 1911
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.09 — 729,751 ratings — published 1966
Cat’s Cradle (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.15 — 437,150 ratings — published 1963
The Call of the Wild (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 472,745 ratings — published 1903
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 252,823 ratings — published 1956
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 334,678 ratings — published 1947
The House of Mirth (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 105,919 ratings — published 1905
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.85 — 251,733 ratings — published 1958
Franny and Zooey (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.96 — 240,121 ratings — published 1957
“Jack [Kerouac] was, in a sense, a twentieth-century American mythographer. And that’s why maybe those novels will stand up, because they will be one of the best statements of the myth of the twentieth century.”
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