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American Books
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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 1531 times as american)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,888,352 ratings — published 1925
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 1252 times as american)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,880,352 ratings — published 1951
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 1252 times as american)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,855,116 ratings — published 1960
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 1082 times as american)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,823,341 ratings — published 1937
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 920 times as american)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,306,562 ratings — published 1952
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 826 times as american)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,479,054 ratings — published 1969
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 777 times as american)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,335,231 ratings — published 1885
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 757 times as american)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,819,949 ratings — published 1953
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 749 times as american)
avg rating 4.03 — 991,414 ratings — published 1939
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 682 times as american)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,212,337 ratings — published 1963
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 631 times as american)
avg rating 3.57 — 614,359 ratings — published 1851
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 586 times as american)
avg rating 3.99 — 885,078 ratings — published 1961
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 577 times as american)
avg rating 3.61 — 447,118 ratings — published 1957
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 571 times as american)
avg rating 3.79 — 492,515 ratings — published 1926
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 566 times as american)
avg rating 4.44 — 633,556 ratings — published 1952
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 545 times as american)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,015,797 ratings — published 1876
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 522 times as american)
avg rating 3.44 — 917,143 ratings — published 1850
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 522 times as american)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,031,863 ratings — published 2006
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 505 times as american)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,450,240 ratings — published 1868
A Farewell to Arms (Paperback)
by (shelved 488 times as american)
avg rating 3.82 — 352,644 ratings — published 1929
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 487 times as american)
avg rating 3.86 — 195,624 ratings — published 1929
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 471 times as american)
avg rating 3.98 — 488,956 ratings — published 1987
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 458 times as american)
avg rating 4.20 — 778,491 ratings — published 1962
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 450 times as american)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,019,020 ratings — published 1992
Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 426 times as american)
avg rating 4.35 — 244,843 ratings — published 1965
Cat’s Cradle (Paperback)
by (shelved 426 times as american)
avg rating 4.15 — 436,024 ratings — published 1963
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 423 times as american)
avg rating 4.09 — 726,871 ratings — published 1966
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 417 times as american)
avg rating 3.72 — 186,480 ratings — published 1930
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 400 times as american)
avg rating 3.87 — 942,197 ratings — published 1955
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 399 times as american)
avg rating 4.28 — 750,371 ratings — published 1982
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 392 times as american)
avg rating 3.99 — 317,378 ratings — published 1940
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 380 times as american)
avg rating 4.15 — 218,401 ratings — published 1985
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 375 times as american)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,861,086 ratings — published 2008
The Age of Innocence (Paperback)
by (shelved 367 times as american)
avg rating 3.97 — 195,093 ratings — published 1920
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 363 times as american)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,255,261 ratings — published 1936
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 355 times as american)
avg rating 3.89 — 297,268 ratings — published 1980
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 344 times as american)
avg rating 3.85 — 251,243 ratings — published 1958
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 344 times as american)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,036,467 ratings — published 2013
Tender Is the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 333 times as american)
avg rating 3.77 — 149,414 ratings — published 1934
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 329 times as american)
avg rating 3.59 — 258,317 ratings — published 1949
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 328 times as american)
avg rating 3.99 — 385,453 ratings — published 1937
Dune (Dune #1)
by (shelved 325 times as american)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,619,732 ratings — published 1965
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 324 times as american)
avg rating 3.92 — 201,666 ratings — published 1952
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 322 times as american)
avg rating 3.80 — 360,691 ratings — published 1991
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 320 times as american)
avg rating 3.98 — 333,933 ratings — published 1947
Franny and Zooey (Paperback)
by (shelved 318 times as american)
avg rating 3.96 — 239,433 ratings — published 1957
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 317 times as american)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,517,036 ratings — published 2003
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 314 times as american)
avg rating 4.18 — 641,270 ratings — published 1996
Breakfast of Champions (Paperback)
by (shelved 305 times as american)
avg rating 4.06 — 279,286 ratings — published 1973
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 305 times as american)
avg rating 3.61 — 462,871 ratings — published 1953
“In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic. But I do not repine, for I am a subject of it only by force of arms.”
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“Just that. Your family must be very different from mine."
"I’d say so." I laughed. "For one, no one wears their tiaras to breakfast."
Maxon smiled. "More of a dinner thing at the Singer house?”
“Of course.”
― The Selection
"I’d say so." I laughed. "For one, no one wears their tiaras to breakfast."
Maxon smiled. "More of a dinner thing at the Singer house?”
“Of course.”
― The Selection
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