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The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 311 times as americana)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,982,791 ratings — published 1925
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To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 304 times as americana)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,955,131 ratings — published 1960
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The Catcher in the Rye The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 266 times as americana)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,926,655 ratings — published 1951
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Of Mice and Men Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 247 times as americana)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,868,669 ratings — published 1937
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The Grapes of Wrath The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 230 times as americana)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,003,185 ratings — published 1939
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On the Road On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as americana)
avg rating 3.61 — 451,729 ratings — published 1957
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East of Eden East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as americana)
avg rating 4.44 — 656,014 ratings — published 1952
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 159 times as americana)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,343,036 ratings — published 1885
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American Pastoral American Pastoral (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as americana)
avg rating 3.95 — 89,129 ratings — published 1997
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Stoner Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as americana)
avg rating 4.36 — 261,545 ratings — published 1965
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In Cold Blood In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as americana)
avg rating 4.09 — 737,401 ratings — published 1966
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The Secret History The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as americana)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,055,339 ratings — published 1992
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as americana)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,026,776 ratings — published 1876
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as americana)
avg rating 3.57 — 621,016 ratings — published 1851
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The Road The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as americana)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,051,690 ratings — published 2006
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The Old Man and the Sea The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as americana)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,330,016 ratings — published 1952
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The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3) The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
by (shelved 99 times as americana)
avg rating 3.86 — 87,898 ratings — published 1987
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The Corrections The Corrections (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as americana)
avg rating 3.85 — 199,822 ratings — published 2001
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Slaughterhouse-Five Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as americana)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,495,511 ratings — published 1969
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The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as americana)
avg rating 3.44 — 926,526 ratings — published 1850
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again:  Essays and Arguments A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as americana)
avg rating 4.13 — 55,050 ratings — published 1997
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Little Women (Little Women, #1) Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 93 times as americana)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,485,945 ratings — published 1868
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Beloved Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as americana)
avg rating 3.98 — 497,046 ratings — published 1987
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Gone With the Wind Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as americana)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,261,157 ratings — published 1936
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American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1) American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 91 times as americana)
avg rating 4.10 — 994,708 ratings — published 2001
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The Bell Jar The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as americana)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,248,261 ratings — published 1963
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Demon Copperhead Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as americana)
avg rating 4.46 — 826,174 ratings — published 2022
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Fahrenheit 451 Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as americana)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,881,730 ratings — published 1953
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Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as americana)
avg rating 4.15 — 227,123 ratings — published 1985
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as americana)
avg rating 3.83 — 507,917 ratings — published 2016
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America Travels with Charley: In Search of America (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as americana)
avg rating 4.08 — 108,590 ratings — published 1961
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Portnoy’s Complaint Portnoy’s Complaint (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as americana)
avg rating 3.70 — 74,411 ratings — published 1969
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The Goldfinch The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as americana)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,052,254 ratings — published 2013
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Educated Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as americana)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,892,966 ratings — published 2018
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The Sound and the Fury The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as americana)
avg rating 3.86 — 197,543 ratings — published 1929
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No Country for Old Men No Country for Old Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as americana)
avg rating 4.17 — 254,129 ratings — published 2005
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As I Lay Dying As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as americana)
avg rating 3.72 — 188,982 ratings — published 1930
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The Help The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as americana)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,042,624 ratings — published 2009
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The Underground Railroad The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as americana)
avg rating 4.06 — 449,643 ratings — published 2016
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American Psycho American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as americana)
avg rating 3.80 — 367,999 ratings — published 1991
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All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1) All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 76 times as americana)
avg rating 4.06 — 149,149 ratings — published 1992
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4 3 2 1 4 3 2 1 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as americana)
avg rating 3.97 — 37,909 ratings — published 2017
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1) Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as americana)
avg rating 4.58 — 251,416 ratings — published 1985
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as americana)
avg rating 3.91 — 302,044 ratings — published 1962
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White Noise White Noise (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as americana)
avg rating 3.86 — 128,446 ratings — published 1985
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as americana)
avg rating 4.06 — 381,545 ratings — published 1971
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Lolita Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 71 times as americana)
avg rating 3.87 — 955,651 ratings — published 1955
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Middlesex Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as americana)
avg rating 4.04 — 666,183 ratings — published 2002
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as americana)
avg rating 4.00 — 765,939 ratings — published 2003
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Where the Crawdads Sing Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 69 times as americana)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,678,730 ratings — published 2018
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Walt Whitman
“Sail Forth- Steer for the deep waters only. Reckless O soul, exploring. I with thee and thou with me. For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared go. And we will risk the ship, ourselves, and all.”
Walt Whitman

Ben Fountain
“Where else but America could football flourish, America with its millions of fertile acres of corn, soy, and wheat, its lakes of dairy, its year-round gushers of fruits and vegetables, and such meats, that extraordinary pipline of beef, poultry, seafood, and pork, feedlot gorged, vitamin enriched, and hypodermically immunized, humming factories of high-velocity protein production, all of which culminate after several generations of epic nutrition in this strain of industrial-sized humans? Only America could produce such giants.”
Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

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