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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as united-states)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,903,969 ratings — published 1925
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as united-states)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,871,816 ratings — published 1960
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as united-states)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,887,482 ratings — published 1951
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as united-states)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,830,040 ratings — published 1937
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as united-states)
avg rating 4.09 — 265,839 ratings — published 1980
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as united-states)
avg rating 4.03 — 992,879 ratings — published 1939
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 98 times as united-states)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,336,095 ratings — published 1885
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as united-states)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,481,159 ratings — published 1969
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 84 times as united-states)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,828,980 ratings — published 1953
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 79 times as united-states)
avg rating 3.98 — 489,692 ratings — published 1987
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as united-states)
avg rating 3.84 — 503,579 ratings — published 2016
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as united-states)
avg rating 3.57 — 615,135 ratings — published 1851
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as united-states)
avg rating 4.06 — 444,274 ratings — published 2016
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as united-states)
avg rating 4.44 — 635,850 ratings — published 1952
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as united-states)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,309,703 ratings — published 1952
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as united-states)
avg rating 4.40 — 365,950 ratings — published 2015
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as united-states)
avg rating 3.44 — 918,512 ratings — published 1850
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as united-states)
avg rating 4.00 — 757,715 ratings — published 2003
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as united-states)
avg rating 4.28 — 751,278 ratings — published 1982
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as united-states)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,216,772 ratings — published 1963
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as united-states)
avg rating 3.61 — 447,647 ratings — published 1957
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as united-states)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,034,207 ratings — published 2006
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as united-states)
avg rating 4.14 — 444,821 ratings — published 2017
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as united-states)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,017,306 ratings — published 1876
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 62 times as united-states)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,615,893 ratings — published 2018
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as united-states)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,854,149 ratings — published 2018
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as united-states)
avg rating 4.09 — 728,147 ratings — published 1966
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as united-states)
avg rating 4.26 — 102,205 ratings — published 1970
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as united-states)
avg rating 3.86 — 195,822 ratings — published 1929
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as united-states)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,016,663 ratings — published 2009
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 56 times as united-states)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,455,744 ratings — published 1868
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 55 times as united-states)
avg rating 3.87 — 943,948 ratings — published 1955
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as united-states)
avg rating 4.07 — 445,109 ratings — published 1998
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as united-states)
avg rating 3.92 — 201,848 ratings — published 1952
Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as united-states)
avg rating 4.35 — 246,661 ratings — published 1965
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as united-states)
avg rating 4.52 — 117,140 ratings — published 2010
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as united-states)
avg rating 4.15 — 219,383 ratings — published 1985
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as united-states)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,440,802 ratings — published 2012
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as united-states)
avg rating 3.99 — 885,837 ratings — published 1961
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as united-states)
avg rating 3.99 — 385,964 ratings — published 1937
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as united-states)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,023,461 ratings — published 1992
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as united-states)
avg rating 4.37 — 290,987 ratings — published 1965
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as united-states)
avg rating 3.79 — 493,207 ratings — published 1926
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 50 times as united-states)
avg rating 4.31 — 275,221 ratings — published 2020
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as united-states)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,997,363 ratings — published 1999
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as united-states)
avg rating 4.47 — 113,666 ratings — published 2016
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 49 times as united-states)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,888,127 ratings — published 2008
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as united-states)
avg rating 4.13 — 300,164 ratings — published 1970
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as united-states)
avg rating 4.48 — 116,700 ratings — published 2010
1776 (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as united-states)
avg rating 4.10 — 248,103 ratings — published 2005
“Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting himself as a born again Christian. That sparked a little light in the minds of political campaign managers: Pretend to be a religious fanatic and you can pick up a third of the vote right away. Nobody asked whether Lyndon Johnson went to church every day. Bill Clinton is probably about as religious as I am, meaning zero, but his managers made a point of making sure that every Sunday morning he was in the Baptist church singing hymns.”
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“The media are desperately afraid of being accused of bias. And that's partly because there's a whole machine out there, an organized attempt to accuse them of bias whenever they say anything that the Right doesn't like. So rather than really try to report things objectively, they settle for being even-handed, which is not the same thing. One of my lines in a column—in which a number of people thought I was insulting them personally—was that if Bush said the Earth was flat, the mainstream media would have stories with the headline: 'Shape of Earth—Views Differ.' Then they'd quote some Democrats saying that it was round.”
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