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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 704 times as usa)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,817,076 ratings — published 1925
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 598 times as usa)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,779,135 ratings — published 1960
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 593 times as usa)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,845,748 ratings — published 1951
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 473 times as usa)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,790,662 ratings — published 1937
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 378 times as usa)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,188,314 ratings — published 1963
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 378 times as usa)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,774,669 ratings — published 1953
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 367 times as usa)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,289,312 ratings — published 1952
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 350 times as usa)
avg rating 4.02 — 982,965 ratings — published 1939
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 295 times as usa)
avg rating 4.16 — 989,932 ratings — published 1992
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 290 times as usa)
avg rating 3.61 — 443,817 ratings — published 1957
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 288 times as usa)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,467,163 ratings — published 1969
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 287 times as usa)
avg rating 3.98 — 483,693 ratings — published 1987
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 279 times as usa)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,019,071 ratings — published 2006
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Paperback)
by (shelved 276 times as usa)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,329,640 ratings — published 1885
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 263 times as usa)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,815,813 ratings — published 2018
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 255 times as usa)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,548,094 ratings — published 2018
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 251 times as usa)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,423,330 ratings — published 1868
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 240 times as usa)
avg rating 4.09 — 719,954 ratings — published 1966
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 239 times as usa)
avg rating 4.43 — 620,388 ratings — published 1952
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 238 times as usa)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,739,959 ratings — published 2008
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 238 times as usa)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,007,789 ratings — published 1876
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 237 times as usa)
avg rating 4.06 — 439,700 ratings — published 2016
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 231 times as usa)
avg rating 3.56 — 609,358 ratings — published 1851
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 223 times as usa)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,400,658 ratings — published 2012
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 218 times as usa)
avg rating 4.47 — 2,989,143 ratings — published 2009
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 215 times as usa)
avg rating 4.28 — 745,152 ratings — published 1982
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 212 times as usa)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,025,908 ratings — published 2013
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 211 times as usa)
avg rating 3.87 — 932,576 ratings — published 1955
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 207 times as usa)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,645,955 ratings — published 2012
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 203 times as usa)
avg rating 4.28 — 895,493 ratings — published 2015
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 200 times as usa)
avg rating 3.86 — 194,247 ratings — published 1929
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
by (shelved 199 times as usa)
avg rating 3.86 — 85,732 ratings — published 1987
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 198 times as usa)
avg rating 3.44 — 909,825 ratings — published 1850
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 195 times as usa)
avg rating 4.04 — 660,474 ratings — published 2002
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 191 times as usa)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,499,539 ratings — published 2003
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as usa)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,250,998 ratings — published 1936
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 188 times as usa)
avg rating 4.35 — 4,082,938 ratings — published 2009
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 187 times as usa)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,973,627 ratings — published 1999
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 185 times as usa)
avg rating 4.09 — 505,004 ratings — published 1968
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 182 times as usa)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,656,885 ratings — published 2010
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 180 times as usa)
avg rating 4.09 — 262,862 ratings — published 1980
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 179 times as usa)
avg rating 3.99 — 880,298 ratings — published 1961
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 178 times as usa)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,964,729 ratings — published 2017
Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
by (shelved 178 times as usa)
avg rating 3.67 — 7,212,978 ratings — published 2005
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 177 times as usa)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,297,923 ratings — published 2017
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 176 times as usa)
avg rating 3.84 — 497,051 ratings — published 2016
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 175 times as usa)
avg rating 4.45 — 998,622 ratings — published 2017
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 174 times as usa)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,676,031 ratings — published 1977
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 173 times as usa)
avg rating 3.91 — 285,607 ratings — published 1962
“Many years ago I was so innocent I still considered it possible that we could become the humane and reasonable America so many members of my generation used to dream of. We dreamed of such an America during the Great Depression, when there were no jobs. And then we fought and often died for that dream during the Second World War, when there was no peace.
But I know now that there is not a chance in hell of America becoming humane and reasonable. Because power corrupts us, and absolute power corrupts us absolutely. Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East? Their morale, like so many lifeless bodies, is already shot to pieces. They are being treated, as I never was, like toys a rich kid got for Christmas.”
― A Man Without a Country
But I know now that there is not a chance in hell of America becoming humane and reasonable. Because power corrupts us, and absolute power corrupts us absolutely. Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East? Their morale, like so many lifeless bodies, is already shot to pieces. They are being treated, as I never was, like toys a rich kid got for Christmas.”
― A Man Without a Country
“Here's what we're not taught [about the Declaration and Constitution]: Those words at the time they were written were blazingly, electrifyingly subversive. If you understand them truly now, they still are. You are not taught - and it is a disgrace that you aren't - that these men and women were radicals for liberty; that they had a vision of equality that was a slap in the face of what the rest of their world understood to be the unchanging, God-given order of nations; and that they were willing to die to make that desperate vision into a reality for people like us, whom they would never live to see. ”
― The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
― The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
