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American Lit Books
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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 833 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,982,460 ratings — published 1925
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 643 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,954,804 ratings — published 1960
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 610 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,926,504 ratings — published 1951
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 553 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,868,503 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 — 1,343,019 ratings — published 1885
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 416 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,329,950 ratings — published 1952
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 396 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.44 — 926,483 ratings — published 1850
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 384 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,003,142 ratings — published 1939
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 365 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,881,490 ratings — published 1953
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 344 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,248,107 ratings — published 1963
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 341 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,485,832 ratings — published 1868
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 333 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,495,439 ratings — published 1969
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 333 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.44 — 655,911 ratings — published 1952
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 331 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.79 — 498,702 ratings — published 1926
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 308 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.57 — 620,990 ratings — published 1851
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 295 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,026,735 ratings — published 1876
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 283 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 496,996 ratings — published 1987
A Farewell to Arms (Paperback)
by (shelved 281 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.82 — 357,226 ratings — published 1929
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 269 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.86 — 197,531 ratings — published 1929
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 260 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 891,797 ratings — published 1961
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 257 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.72 — 188,971 ratings — published 1930
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 249 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 391,046 ratings — published 1937
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 227 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,051,614 ratings — published 2006
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 216 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.28 — 758,714 ratings — published 1982
The Age of Innocence (Paperback)
by (shelved 206 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.97 — 198,309 ratings — published 1920
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 206 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.61 — 451,709 ratings — published 1957
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 205 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.61 — 468,098 ratings — published 1953
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 201 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 320,889 ratings — published 1940
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 198 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.20 — 784,787 ratings — published 1962
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 195 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 203,490 ratings — published 1952
The Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 193 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.69 — 229,324 ratings — published 1899
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 191 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.59 — 261,258 ratings — published 1949
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Paperback)
by (shelved 187 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 244,038 ratings — published 1852
Tender Is the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.77 — 150,782 ratings — published 1934
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 181 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,261,135 ratings — published 1936
The Pearl (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.57 — 276,420 ratings — published 1947
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 174 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.07 — 367,355 ratings — published 1892
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 169 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.13 — 307,232 ratings — published 1970
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 165 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,055,214 ratings — published 1992
My Ántonia (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.85 — 148,827 ratings — published 1918
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.30 — 517,963 ratings — published 1943
Cat’s Cradle (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.15 — 440,531 ratings — published 1963
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.09 — 737,348 ratings — published 1966
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 264,683 ratings — published 1956
Ethan Frome (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.46 — 139,440 ratings — published 1911
The Call of the Wild (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 477,319 ratings — published 1903
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 151 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 336,727 ratings — published 1947
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.15 — 227,088 ratings — published 1985
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 149 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.85 — 253,171 ratings — published 1958
Franny and Zooey (Paperback)
by (shelved 149 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.96 — 241,739 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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