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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 830 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,106,842 ratings — published 1925
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 639 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,085,225 ratings — published 1960
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 609 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,992,563 ratings — published 1951
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 560 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,931,710 ratings — published 1937
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 433 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,351,036 ratings — published 1885
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 423 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,364,576 ratings — published 1952
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 391 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.44 — 938,680 ratings — published 1850
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 384 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,021,676 ratings — published 1939
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 366 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,964,378 ratings — published 1963
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 355 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,298,565 ratings — published 1963
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 350 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.45 — 704,615 ratings — published 1952
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 341 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,529,652 ratings — published 1868
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 329 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.78 — 508,384 ratings — published 1926
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 328 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,520,274 ratings — published 1969
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 315 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.57 — 632,001 ratings — published 1851
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 298 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,041,302 ratings — published 1876
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 285 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 510,511 ratings — published 1987
A Farewell to Arms (Paperback)
by (shelved 281 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.82 — 365,054 ratings — published 1929
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 267 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.86 — 200,662 ratings — published 1929
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 260 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.72 — 193,131 ratings — published 1930
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 258 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 901,873 ratings — published 1961
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 248 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 398,684 ratings — published 1937
Yol (Paperback)
by (shelved 224 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,079,863 ratings — published 2006
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 215 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.28 — 769,918 ratings — published 1982
The Age of Innocence (Paperback)
by (shelved 206 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.97 — 202,832 ratings — published 1920
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 205 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 325,879 ratings — published 1940
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 204 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.61 — 474,947 ratings — published 1953
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 204 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.61 — 458,164 ratings — published 1957
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 196 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 206,143 ratings — published 1952
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 194 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.20 — 793,382 ratings — published 1962
The Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.69 — 232,652 ratings — published 1899
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Paperback)
by (shelved 190 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 246,484 ratings — published 1852
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 186 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.59 — 265,724 ratings — published 1949
Tender Is the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 181 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.77 — 153,250 ratings — published 1934
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 181 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,269,321 ratings — published 1936
The Pearl (Paperback)
by (shelved 178 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.58 — 287,129 ratings — published 1947
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 173 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.06 — 382,988 ratings — published 1892
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 171 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 318,619 ratings — published 1970
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 165 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 290,618 ratings — published 1956
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,107,895 ratings — published 1992
My Ántonia (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.85 — 151,481 ratings — published 1918
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.30 — 529,956 ratings — published 1943
The Call of the Wild (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 485,189 ratings — published 1903
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.09 — 751,551 ratings — published 1966
Cat’s Cradle (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.15 — 447,258 ratings — published 1963
Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.36 — 292,926 ratings — published 1965
Ethan Frome (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.47 — 141,576 ratings — published 1911
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 340,579 ratings — published 1947
The House of Mirth (Paperback)
by (shelved 149 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 108,764 ratings — published 1905
Franny and Zooey (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.95 — 245,276 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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