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American Books
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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 1548 times as american)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,010,588 ratings — published 1925
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 1271 times as american)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,943,559 ratings — published 1951
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 1265 times as american)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,984,200 ratings — published 1960
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 1093 times as american)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,882,758 ratings — published 1937
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 941 times as american)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,337,800 ratings — published 1952
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 833 times as american)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,501,191 ratings — published 1969
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 790 times as american)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,345,347 ratings — published 1885
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 771 times as american)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,901,700 ratings — published 1953
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 765 times as american)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,007,320 ratings — published 1939
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 691 times as american)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,260,043 ratings — published 1963
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 640 times as american)
avg rating 3.57 — 623,683 ratings — published 1851
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 591 times as american)
avg rating 3.99 — 894,173 ratings — published 1961
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 584 times as american)
avg rating 4.44 — 664,719 ratings — published 1952
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 579 times as american)
avg rating 3.61 — 453,263 ratings — published 1957
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 573 times as american)
avg rating 3.79 — 500,880 ratings — published 1926
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 556 times as american)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,030,111 ratings — published 1876
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 532 times as american)
avg rating 3.44 — 929,454 ratings — published 1850
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 532 times as american)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,058,474 ratings — published 2006
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 512 times as american)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,496,095 ratings — published 1868
A Farewell to Arms (Paperback)
by (shelved 494 times as american)
avg rating 3.82 — 359,560 ratings — published 1929
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 490 times as american)
avg rating 3.86 — 198,224 ratings — published 1929
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 478 times as american)
avg rating 3.98 — 499,995 ratings — published 1987
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 464 times as american)
avg rating 4.20 — 786,931 ratings — published 1962
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 461 times as american)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,068,042 ratings — published 1992
Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 443 times as american)
avg rating 4.35 — 267,619 ratings — published 1965
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 428 times as american)
avg rating 4.09 — 741,143 ratings — published 1966
Cat’s Cradle (Paperback)
by (shelved 428 times as american)
avg rating 4.15 — 442,126 ratings — published 1963
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 422 times as american)
avg rating 3.72 — 189,878 ratings — published 1930
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 403 times as american)
avg rating 3.87 — 960,171 ratings — published 1955
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 397 times as american)
avg rating 4.28 — 761,427 ratings — published 1982
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 393 times as american)
avg rating 3.99 — 322,034 ratings — published 1940
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 386 times as american)
avg rating 4.15 — 230,285 ratings — published 1985
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 378 times as american)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,066,220 ratings — published 2008
The Age of Innocence (Paperback)
by (shelved 374 times as american)
avg rating 3.97 — 199,425 ratings — published 1920
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 366 times as american)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,263,124 ratings — published 1936
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 363 times as american)
avg rating 3.89 — 302,263 ratings — published 1980
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 350 times as american)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,058,086 ratings — published 2013
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 340 times as american)
avg rating 3.85 — 253,912 ratings — published 1958
Tender Is the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 336 times as american)
avg rating 3.77 — 151,332 ratings — published 1934
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 332 times as american)
avg rating 3.59 — 262,339 ratings — published 1949
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 332 times as american)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,660,263 ratings — published 1965
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 329 times as american)
avg rating 3.99 — 392,918 ratings — published 1937
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 329 times as american)
avg rating 3.80 — 370,809 ratings — published 1991
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 326 times as american)
avg rating 3.92 — 204,153 ratings — published 1952
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 325 times as american)
avg rating 3.98 — 337,710 ratings — published 1947
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 320 times as american)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,549,074 ratings — published 2003
Franny and Zooey (Paperback)
by (shelved 319 times as american)
avg rating 3.96 — 242,577 ratings — published 1957
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 314 times as american)
avg rating 4.18 — 652,067 ratings — published 1996
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 308 times as american)
avg rating 4.09 — 522,044 ratings — published 1968
Breakfast of Champions (Paperback)
by (shelved 308 times as american)
avg rating 4.06 — 282,637 ratings — published 1973
“(Media question to Beatles during first U.S. tour 1964)
"How do you find America?"
"Turn left at Greenland.”
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"How do you find America?"
"Turn left at Greenland.”
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america, american-authors, american-books, american-lit, american-literature, and americanliterature












