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Listopia > ALLEN's votes on the list The Five Books I Would Require If I Taught an English Literature Class (5 Books)
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Babbitt
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"Indispensable, satirical look at American middle-class society and our business culture"
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rated it 5 stars
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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"I can't imagine 20th-Century American literature without it! "
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The Great Gatsby
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"A nearly perfect novel. "
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rated it 5 stars
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Lolita
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"A paragon of American modernism--this book seduces with style while distracting us with the unreliable narrator's perversion. "
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rated it 5 stars
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Appointment in Samarra
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"It's underappreciated but as a realist novel of the American interwar period, hard to beat! "
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rated it 5 stars
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