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American Books
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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 1530 times as american)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,901,625 ratings — published 1925
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 1252 times as american)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,886,339 ratings — published 1951
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 1252 times as american)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,869,312 ratings — published 1960
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 1081 times as american)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,828,997 ratings — published 1937
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 919 times as american)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,309,208 ratings — published 1952
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 826 times as american)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,480,801 ratings — published 1969
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 779 times as american)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,335,914 ratings — published 1885
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 756 times as american)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,827,594 ratings — published 1953
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 749 times as american)
avg rating 4.03 — 992,604 ratings — published 1939
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 681 times as american)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,215,977 ratings — published 1963
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 629 times as american)
avg rating 3.57 — 614,971 ratings — published 1851
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 587 times as american)
avg rating 3.99 — 885,712 ratings — published 1961
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 577 times as american)
avg rating 3.61 — 447,572 ratings — published 1957
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 570 times as american)
avg rating 3.79 — 493,109 ratings — published 1926
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 567 times as american)
avg rating 4.44 — 635,436 ratings — published 1952
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 546 times as american)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,017,082 ratings — published 1876
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 524 times as american)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,033,777 ratings — published 2006
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 521 times as american)
avg rating 3.44 — 918,270 ratings — published 1850
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 505 times as american)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,454,806 ratings — published 1868
A Farewell to Arms (Paperback)
by (shelved 489 times as american)
avg rating 3.82 — 353,097 ratings — published 1929
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 486 times as american)
avg rating 3.86 — 195,780 ratings — published 1929
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 471 times as american)
avg rating 3.98 — 489,568 ratings — published 1987
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 458 times as american)
avg rating 4.20 — 779,090 ratings — published 1962
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 451 times as american)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,022,628 ratings — published 1992
Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 426 times as american)
avg rating 4.35 — 246,313 ratings — published 1965
Cat’s Cradle (Paperback)
by (shelved 426 times as american)
avg rating 4.15 — 436,425 ratings — published 1963
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 423 times as american)
avg rating 4.09 — 727,942 ratings — published 1966
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 415 times as american)
avg rating 3.72 — 186,697 ratings — published 1930
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 401 times as american)
avg rating 3.87 — 943,652 ratings — published 1955
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 400 times as american)
avg rating 4.28 — 751,128 ratings — published 1982
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 392 times as american)
avg rating 3.99 — 317,691 ratings — published 1940
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 379 times as american)
avg rating 4.15 — 219,211 ratings — published 1985
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 374 times as american)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,883,975 ratings — published 2008
The Age of Innocence (Paperback)
by (shelved 367 times as american)
avg rating 3.97 — 195,295 ratings — published 1920
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 363 times as american)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,255,845 ratings — published 1936
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 355 times as american)
avg rating 3.89 — 297,578 ratings — published 1980
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 344 times as american)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,038,036 ratings — published 2013
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 343 times as american)
avg rating 3.85 — 251,409 ratings — published 1958
Tender Is the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 333 times as american)
avg rating 3.77 — 149,521 ratings — published 1934
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 328 times as american)
avg rating 3.59 — 258,563 ratings — published 1949
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 328 times as american)
avg rating 3.99 — 385,866 ratings — published 1937
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 325 times as american)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,622,761 ratings — published 1965
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 324 times as american)
avg rating 3.92 — 201,818 ratings — published 1952
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 322 times as american)
avg rating 3.80 — 361,291 ratings — published 1991
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 320 times as american)
avg rating 3.98 — 334,194 ratings — published 1947
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 318 times as american)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,519,754 ratings — published 2003
Franny and Zooey (Paperback)
by (shelved 317 times as american)
avg rating 3.96 — 239,678 ratings — published 1957
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 314 times as american)
avg rating 4.18 — 642,034 ratings — published 1996
Breakfast of Champions (Paperback)
by (shelved 305 times as american)
avg rating 4.06 — 279,513 ratings — published 1973
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 305 times as american)
avg rating 3.61 — 463,396 ratings — published 1953
“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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“You get confused by crying women, I get confused by walks with princes.”
― The Selection
― The Selection
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