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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 409 times as america)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,959,018 ratings — published 1925
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 370 times as america)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,930,235 ratings — published 1960
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 276 times as america)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,915,081 ratings — published 1951
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 266 times as america)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,856,917 ratings — published 1937
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 238 times as america)
avg rating 4.03 — 999,981 ratings — published 1939
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 201 times as america)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,340,869 ratings — published 1885
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 182 times as america)
avg rating 3.84 — 506,710 ratings — published 2016
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 175 times as america)
avg rating 4.09 — 267,592 ratings — published 1980
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 167 times as america)
avg rating 4.06 — 447,991 ratings — published 2016
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 165 times as america)
avg rating 4.44 — 649,344 ratings — published 1952
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as america)
avg rating 3.61 — 450,479 ratings — published 1957
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 157 times as america)
avg rating 4.40 — 368,842 ratings — published 2015
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 157 times as america)
avg rating 4.10 — 993,374 ratings — published 2001
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as america)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,491,070 ratings — published 1969
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 156 times as america)
avg rating 3.98 — 494,449 ratings — published 1987
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 151 times as america)
avg rating 4.26 — 103,033 ratings — published 1970
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 150 times as america)
avg rating 4.00 — 763,323 ratings — published 2003
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as america)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,881,280 ratings — published 2018
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as america)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,024,013 ratings — published 1876
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 144 times as america)
avg rating 4.31 — 415,282 ratings — published 2013
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as america)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,045,353 ratings — published 1992
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 140 times as america)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,323,913 ratings — published 1952
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 140 times as america)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,035,404 ratings — published 2009
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as america)
avg rating 4.14 — 451,026 ratings — published 2017
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as america)
avg rating 4.09 — 734,305 ratings — published 1966
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as america)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,259,573 ratings — published 1936
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as america)
avg rating 3.57 — 619,096 ratings — published 1851
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 137 times as america)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,477,108 ratings — published 1868
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as america)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,238,464 ratings — published 1963
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as america)
avg rating 4.28 — 756,422 ratings — published 1982
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as america)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,865,970 ratings — published 1953
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as america)
avg rating 4.07 — 447,789 ratings — published 1998
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 131 times as america)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,046,200 ratings — published 2006
1776 (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as america)
avg rating 4.10 — 249,621 ratings — published 2005
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as america)
avg rating 3.44 — 924,201 ratings — published 1850
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as america)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,206,374 ratings — published 2018
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 124 times as america)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,660,853 ratings — published 2018
Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as america)
avg rating 4.35 — 256,723 ratings — published 1965
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as america)
avg rating 4.05 — 95,749 ratings — published 2005
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as america)
avg rating 4.48 — 117,878 ratings — published 2010
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as america)
avg rating 3.86 — 196,983 ratings — published 1929
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as america)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,450,083 ratings — published 1985
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as america)
avg rating 4.15 — 224,653 ratings — published 1985
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as america)
avg rating 4.22 — 201,370 ratings — published 2004
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as america)
avg rating 4.20 — 783,075 ratings — published 1962
Democracy in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as america)
avg rating 4.05 — 27,147 ratings — published 1835
Travels with Charley: In Search of America (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as america)
avg rating 4.08 — 108,061 ratings — published 1961
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 101 times as america)
avg rating 3.87 — 952,106 ratings — published 1955
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as america)
avg rating 4.04 — 665,245 ratings — published 2002
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as america)
avg rating 4.47 — 114,800 ratings — published 2016
“If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you about American culture? Well, look at the drugs we use. Except for pharmaceutical poison, there are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in.”
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“If you don’t want me to be in love with you, you’re going to have to stop looking so lovely. First thing tomorrow I’m having your maids sew some potato sacks together for you.”
― The Selection
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