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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 829 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,147,934 ratings — published 1925
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 640 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,128,596 ratings — published 1960
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 613 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,015,564 ratings — published 1951
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 570 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,954,743 ratings — published 1937
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 435 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,354,408 ratings — published 1885
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 427 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,377,857 ratings — published 1952
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 393 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.44 — 942,583 ratings — published 1850
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 385 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,028,846 ratings — published 1939
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 368 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,994,776 ratings — published 1963
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 356 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,317,614 ratings — published 1963
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 355 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.46 — 729,348 ratings — published 1952
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 343 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,544,453 ratings — published 1868
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 331 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,529,071 ratings — published 1969
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 330 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.78 — 511,788 ratings — published 1926
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 314 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.57 — 635,813 ratings — published 1851
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 300 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,046,358 ratings — published 1876
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 288 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 515,114 ratings — published 1987
A Farewell to Arms (Paperback)
by (shelved 281 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.82 — 367,562 ratings — published 1929
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 267 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.86 — 201,826 ratings — published 1929
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 262 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.72 — 194,635 ratings — published 1930
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 259 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 905,259 ratings — published 1961
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 249 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.00 — 400,963 ratings — published 1937
Yol (Paperback)
by (shelved 225 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,089,570 ratings — published 2006
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 218 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.28 — 773,671 ratings — published 1982
The Age of Innocence (Paperback)
by (shelved 206 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 204,473 ratings — published 1920
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 206 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 327,860 ratings — published 1940
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 204 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.61 — 477,058 ratings — published 1953
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 203 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.61 — 460,596 ratings — published 1957
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 195 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 206,944 ratings — published 1952
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 194 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.20 — 796,323 ratings — published 1962
The Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 192 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.69 — 233,848 ratings — published 1899
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Paperback)
by (shelved 190 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 247,279 ratings — published 1852
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 186 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.60 — 267,017 ratings — published 1949
Tender Is the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 182 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.76 — 154,207 ratings — published 1934
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 180 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,272,103 ratings — published 1936
The Pearl (Paperback)
by (shelved 179 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.59 — 291,598 ratings — published 1947
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 175 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.06 — 387,981 ratings — published 1892
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 171 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 324,438 ratings — published 1970
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 302,811 ratings — published 1956
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,127,084 ratings — published 1992
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 534,039 ratings — published 1943
My Ántonia (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.85 — 152,422 ratings — published 1918
The Call of the Wild (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 487,843 ratings — published 1903
Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.36 — 305,166 ratings — published 1965
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.09 — 756,594 ratings — published 1966
Ethan Frome (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.47 — 142,259 ratings — published 1911
Cat’s Cradle (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.15 — 449,588 ratings — published 1963
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 341,784 ratings — published 1947
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as american-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 246,228 ratings — published 1985
The House of Mirth (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as american-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 109,396 ratings — published 1905
“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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