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American Books
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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 1532 times as american)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,903,742 ratings — published 1925
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 1252 times as american)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,887,364 ratings — published 1951
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 1252 times as american)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,871,570 ratings — published 1960
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 1081 times as american)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,829,927 ratings — published 1937
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 920 times as american)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,309,654 ratings — published 1952
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 826 times as american)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,481,119 ratings — published 1969
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 779 times as american)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,336,078 ratings — published 1885
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 756 times as american)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,828,836 ratings — published 1953
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 749 times as american)
avg rating 4.03 — 992,851 ratings — published 1939
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 681 times as american)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,216,701 ratings — published 1963
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 629 times as american)
avg rating 3.57 — 615,117 ratings — published 1851
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 587 times as american)
avg rating 3.99 — 885,822 ratings — published 1961
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 577 times as american)
avg rating 3.61 — 447,628 ratings — published 1957
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 570 times as american)
avg rating 3.79 — 493,200 ratings — published 1926
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 567 times as american)
avg rating 4.44 — 635,800 ratings — published 1952
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 547 times as american)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,017,290 ratings — published 1876
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 524 times as american)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,034,180 ratings — published 2006
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 521 times as american)
avg rating 3.44 — 918,489 ratings — published 1850
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 505 times as american)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,455,657 ratings — published 1868
A Farewell to Arms (Paperback)
by (shelved 489 times as american)
avg rating 3.82 — 353,178 ratings — published 1929
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 486 times as american)
avg rating 3.86 — 195,817 ratings — published 1929
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 471 times as american)
avg rating 3.98 — 489,685 ratings — published 1987
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 458 times as american)
avg rating 4.20 — 779,200 ratings — published 1962
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 451 times as american)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,023,359 ratings — published 1992
Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 426 times as american)
avg rating 4.35 — 246,621 ratings — published 1965
Cat’s Cradle (Paperback)
by (shelved 426 times as american)
avg rating 4.15 — 436,500 ratings — published 1963
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 423 times as american)
avg rating 4.09 — 728,121 ratings — published 1966
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 415 times as american)
avg rating 3.72 — 186,735 ratings — published 1930
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 401 times as american)
avg rating 3.87 — 943,915 ratings — published 1955
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 400 times as american)
avg rating 4.28 — 751,253 ratings — published 1982
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 392 times as american)
avg rating 3.99 — 317,754 ratings — published 1940
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 379 times as american)
avg rating 4.15 — 219,361 ratings — published 1985
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 374 times as american)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,887,756 ratings — published 2008
The Age of Innocence (Paperback)
by (shelved 367 times as american)
avg rating 3.97 — 195,340 ratings — published 1920
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 363 times as american)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,255,970 ratings — published 1936
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 355 times as american)
avg rating 3.89 — 297,654 ratings — published 1980
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 344 times as american)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,038,370 ratings — published 2013
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 343 times as american)
avg rating 3.85 — 251,442 ratings — published 1958
Tender Is the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 333 times as american)
avg rating 3.77 — 149,547 ratings — published 1934
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 328 times as american)
avg rating 3.59 — 258,608 ratings — published 1949
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 328 times as american)
avg rating 3.99 — 385,950 ratings — published 1937
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 325 times as american)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,623,301 ratings — published 1965
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 324 times as american)
avg rating 3.92 — 201,841 ratings — published 1952
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 322 times as american)
avg rating 3.80 — 361,387 ratings — published 1991
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 318 times as american)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,520,322 ratings — published 2003
Franny and Zooey (Paperback)
by (shelved 317 times as american)
avg rating 3.96 — 239,737 ratings — published 1957
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 317 times as american)
avg rating 3.98 — 334,244 ratings — published 1947
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 314 times as american)
avg rating 4.18 — 642,189 ratings — published 1996
Breakfast of Champions (Paperback)
by (shelved 306 times as american)
avg rating 4.06 — 279,554 ratings — published 1973
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 305 times as american)
avg rating 3.61 — 463,499 ratings — published 1953
“It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's independence”
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“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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