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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 820 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,890,349 ratings — published 1925
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 634 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,857,400 ratings — published 1960
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 603 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,881,215 ratings — published 1951
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 543 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,824,190 ratings — published 1937
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 427 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,335,319 ratings — published 1885
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 407 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,306,908 ratings — published 1952
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 387 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.44 — 917,302 ratings — published 1850
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 378 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.03 — 991,565 ratings — published 1939
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 366 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,821,060 ratings — published 1953
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 342 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,212,801 ratings — published 1963
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 338 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,450,911 ratings — published 1868
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 330 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,479,308 ratings — published 1969
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 328 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.44 — 633,794 ratings — published 1952
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 328 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.79 — 492,580 ratings — published 1926
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 305 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.57 — 614,418 ratings — published 1851
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 292 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,015,975 ratings — published 1876
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 277 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 489,030 ratings — published 1987
A Farewell to Arms (Paperback)
by (shelved 276 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.82 — 352,702 ratings — published 1929
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 266 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.86 — 195,644 ratings — published 1929
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 261 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 885,163 ratings — published 1961
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 255 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.72 — 186,513 ratings — published 1930
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 247 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 385,522 ratings — published 1937
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 224 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,032,095 ratings — published 2006
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 216 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.28 — 750,469 ratings — published 1982
The Age of Innocence (Paperback)
by (shelved 203 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.97 — 195,129 ratings — published 1920
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 202 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.61 — 447,170 ratings — published 1957
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 200 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.61 — 462,953 ratings — published 1953
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 198 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 317,418 ratings — published 1940
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 196 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.20 — 778,571 ratings — published 1962
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 191 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.59 — 258,354 ratings — published 1949
The Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 190 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.69 — 226,842 ratings — published 1899
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 190 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 201,685 ratings — published 1952
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 242,354 ratings — published 1852
Tender Is the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 180 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.77 — 149,429 ratings — published 1934
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,255,383 ratings — published 1936
The Pearl (Paperback)
by (shelved 175 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.57 — 270,597 ratings — published 1947
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 170 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.07 — 356,193 ratings — published 1892
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 164 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.13 — 299,532 ratings — published 1970
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,019,447 ratings — published 1992
My Ántonia (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.84 — 147,325 ratings — published 1918
Ethan Frome (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.46 — 137,601 ratings — published 1911
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.30 — 510,892 ratings — published 1943
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.09 — 726,998 ratings — published 1966
Cat’s Cradle (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.15 — 436,065 ratings — published 1963
The Call of the Wild (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.91 — 471,131 ratings — published 1903
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 151 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 249,276 ratings — published 1956
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 151 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 333,972 ratings — published 1947
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.85 — 251,258 ratings — published 1958
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.15 — 218,504 ratings — published 1985
Franny and Zooey (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.96 — 239,472 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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