371 books
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274 voters
American Books
Showing 1-50 of 100,000
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 1553 times as american)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,053,828 ratings — published 1925
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 1276 times as american)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,965,159 ratings — published 1951
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 1269 times as american)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,029,596 ratings — published 1960
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 1103 times as american)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,904,265 ratings — published 1937
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 948 times as american)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,349,581 ratings — published 1952
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 830 times as american)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,509,835 ratings — published 1969
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 794 times as american)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,347,184 ratings — published 1885
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 772 times as american)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,929,955 ratings — published 1963
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 771 times as american)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,013,653 ratings — published 1939
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 690 times as american)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,276,675 ratings — published 1963
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 643 times as american)
avg rating 3.57 — 627,663 ratings — published 1851
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 599 times as american)
avg rating 4.45 — 680,812 ratings — published 1952
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 593 times as american)
avg rating 3.99 — 897,833 ratings — published 1961
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 580 times as american)
avg rating 3.61 — 455,451 ratings — published 1957
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 578 times as american)
avg rating 3.79 — 504,186 ratings — published 1926
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 559 times as american)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,035,066 ratings — published 1876
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 542 times as american)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,068,279 ratings — published 2006
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 533 times as american)
avg rating 3.44 — 933,685 ratings — published 1850
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 520 times as american)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,510,747 ratings — published 1868
A Farewell to Arms (Paperback)
by (shelved 499 times as american)
avg rating 3.82 — 362,122 ratings — published 1929
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 494 times as american)
avg rating 3.86 — 199,361 ratings — published 1929
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 484 times as american)
avg rating 3.99 — 504,685 ratings — published 1987
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 469 times as american)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,086,121 ratings — published 1992
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 462 times as american)
avg rating 4.20 — 790,060 ratings — published 1962
Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 452 times as american)
avg rating 4.35 — 279,129 ratings — published 1965
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 430 times as american)
avg rating 4.09 — 745,970 ratings — published 1966
Cat’s Cradle (Paperback)
by (shelved 427 times as american)
avg rating 4.15 — 444,560 ratings — published 1963
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 426 times as american)
avg rating 3.72 — 191,342 ratings — published 1930
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 406 times as american)
avg rating 3.87 — 966,412 ratings — published 1955
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 402 times as american)
avg rating 4.28 — 765,303 ratings — published 1982
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 395 times as american)
avg rating 3.99 — 323,754 ratings — published 1940
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 393 times as american)
avg rating 4.15 — 235,034 ratings — published 1985
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 380 times as american)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,135,577 ratings — published 2008
The Age of Innocence (Paperback)
by (shelved 377 times as american)
avg rating 3.97 — 201,009 ratings — published 1920
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 370 times as american)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,265,995 ratings — published 1936
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 364 times as american)
avg rating 3.89 — 304,168 ratings — published 1980
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 352 times as american)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,066,643 ratings — published 2013
Tender Is the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 340 times as american)
avg rating 3.77 — 152,143 ratings — published 1934
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 338 times as american)
avg rating 3.85 — 254,932 ratings — published 1958
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 334 times as american)
avg rating 3.59 — 264,032 ratings — published 1949
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 333 times as american)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,676,355 ratings — published 1965
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 332 times as american)
avg rating 3.80 — 374,197 ratings — published 1991
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 331 times as american)
avg rating 3.99 — 395,565 ratings — published 1937
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 328 times as american)
avg rating 3.98 — 339,042 ratings — published 1947
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 327 times as american)
avg rating 3.92 — 205,137 ratings — published 1952
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 319 times as american)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,561,615 ratings — published 2003
Franny and Zooey (Paperback)
by (shelved 319 times as american)
avg rating 3.96 — 243,769 ratings — published 1957
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 314 times as american)
avg rating 4.18 — 655,915 ratings — published 1996
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 313 times as american)
avg rating 4.09 — 526,219 ratings — published 1968
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 313 times as american)
avg rating 4.34 — 277,985 ratings — published 1956
“I hope you find someone you can't live without.I really do. And I hope you never have to know what it's like to have to try and live without them.”
― The Selection
― The Selection
“(Media question to Beatles during first U.S. tour 1964)
"How do you find America?"
"Turn left at Greenland.”
―
"How do you find America?"
"Turn left at Greenland.”
―
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