The Atlantic's The Great American Novel

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The Atlantic's The Great American Novel
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Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
49,275 members
779 reviews
4.1
8 Members
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Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
63,587 members
1,142 reviews
4
7 Members
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3
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
83,085 members
1,306 reviews
3.8
6 Members
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4
The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
77,316 members
1,199 reviews
3.8
6 Members
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5
A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
45,530 members
1,039 reviews
4
6 Members
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6
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
44,451 members
579 reviews
4.1
6 Members
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7
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
39,251 members
520 reviews
4.1
6 Members
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8
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
26,641 members
448 reviews
3.9
6 Members
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9
Watchmen
by Alan Moore
21,098 members
521 reviews
½ 4.3
6 Members
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10
Kindred
by Octavia E. Butler
10,762 members
409 reviews
4.2
6 Members
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11
Charlotte's Web
by E. B. White
41,629 members
1,070 reviews
4.2
5 Members
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12
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
26,785 members
320 reviews
4.1
5 Members
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13
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon
20,430 members
429 reviews
4.2
5 Members
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14
The Shipping News
by Annie Proulx
14,372 members
276 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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15
The Haunting of Hill House
by Shirley Jackson
12,898 members
520 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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16
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
12,003 members
272 reviews
4
5 Members
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17
The Fifth Season
by N. K. Jemisin
11,070 members
447 reviews
4.2
5 Members
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18
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
by Judy Blume
8,915 members
260 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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19
Giovanni's Room
by James Baldwin
7,729 members
178 reviews
4.2
5 Members
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20
Passing
by Nella Larsen
3,579 members
134 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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21
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
35,382 members
636 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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22
The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
25,298 members
650 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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23
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
22,393 members
389 reviews
4
4 Members
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24
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by Philip K. Dick
22,259 members
533 reviews
4
4 Members
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25
The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
17,901 members
356 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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26
The Dispossessed
by Ursula K. Le Guin
12,949 members
311 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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27
The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
11,559 members
315 reviews
4
4 Members
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The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
32,785 members
560 reviews
4
4 Members
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Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
18,451 members
232 reviews
4
3 Members
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American Psycho
by Bret Easton Ellis
16,188 members
337 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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32
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz
14,418 members
519 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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33
The Namesake
by Jhumpa Lahiri
13,456 members
343 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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Song of Solomon
by Toni Morrison
12,604 members
138 reviews
4
3 Members
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The Crying of Lot 49
by Thomas Pynchon
12,211 members
214 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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36
A Visit from the Goon Squad
by Jennifer Egan
9,838 members
552 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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Portnoy's Complaint
by Philip Roth
8,039 members
160 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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Housekeeping
by Marilynne Robinson
7,106 members
236 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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The Round House
by Louise Erdrich
4,635 members
228 reviews
4
3 Members
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Dawn
by Octavia E. Butler
4,271 members
155 reviews
4
3 Members
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A Brief History of Seven Killings
by Marlon James
3,544 members
117 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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42
Another Country
by James Baldwin
3,501 members
52 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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43
Lost Children Archive
by Valeria Luiselli
1,514 members
73 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
25,686 members
282 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
19,574 members
247 reviews
4
2 Members
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Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
9,600 members
343 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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Sula
by Toni Morrison
8,928 members
118 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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48
Native Son
by Richard Wright
8,772 members
113 reviews
4
2 Members
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
by Willa Cather
6,930 members
174 reviews
4
2 Members
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There There
by Tommy Orange
6,127 members
246 reviews
4
2 Members
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Bastard Out of Carolina
by Dorothy Allison
5,616 members
124 reviews
4
2 Members
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Fates and Furies
by Lauren Groff
4,366 members
226 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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Salvage the Bones
by Jesmyn Ward
3,597 members
181 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Nightwood
by Djuna Barnes
3,588 members
67 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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Sabbath's Theater
by Philip Roth
2,581 members
37 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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Stone Butch Blues
by Leslie Feinberg
2,516 members
45 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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Peyton Place
by Grace Metalious
1,853 members
40 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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58
Dancer from the Dance
by Andrew Holleran
1,164 members
13 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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59
A Summons to Memphis
by Peter Taylor
1,118 members
29 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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I Love Dick
by Chris Kraus
918 members
26 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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61
Corregidora
by Gayl Jones
737 members
28 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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The Salt Eaters
by Toni Cade Bambara
556 members
7 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
30,489 members
425 reviews
½ 3.6
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64
House of Leaves
by Mark Z. Danielewski
19,374 members
438 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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65
Underworld
by Don DeLillo
8,809 members
90 reviews
3.9
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66
Absalom, Absalom!
by William Faulkner
8,657 members
115 reviews
4.1
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67
All the King's Men
by Robert Penn Warren
8,124 members
133 reviews
4.1
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68
Geek Love
by Katherine Dunn
6,664 members
169 reviews
4
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69
Ceremony
by Leslie Marmon Silko
4,098 members
68 reviews
3.9
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70
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
by Julia Alvarez
3,826 members
74 reviews
½ 3.5
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71
Play it as it Lays
by Joan Didion
3,631 members
72 reviews
3.8
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72
Ask the Dust
by John Fante
3,254 members
71 reviews
3.9
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73
Severance
by Ling Ma
3,007 members
128 reviews
3.8
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74
Nothing to See Here
by Kevin Wilson
2,923 members
165 reviews
4
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75
The Group
by Mary McCarthy
2,560 members
55 reviews
½ 3.7
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76
Blonde
by Joyce Carol Oates
2,436 members
68 reviews
4
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77
The Last Samurai
by Helen DeWitt
2,379 members
66 reviews
4.2
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78
The Day of the Locust
by Nathanael West
2,082 members
58 reviews
½ 3.6
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79
Caramelo
by Sandra Cisneros
2,005 members
35 reviews
½ 3.6
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80
Open City
by Teju Cole
1,914 members
96 reviews
½ 3.6
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81
Couples
by John Updike
1,859 members
21 reviews
½ 3.5
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82
U.S.A.
by John Dos Passos
1,709 members
14 reviews
4
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83
The Russian Debutante's Handbook
by Gary Shteyngart
1,649 members
32 reviews
½ 3.4
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84
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
1,590 members
49 reviews
½ 4.3
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85
Native Speaker
by Chang-Rae Lee
1,580 members
19 reviews
½ 3.7
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86
A Sport and a Pastime
by James Salter
1,504 members
47 reviews
½ 3.6
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87
Mating
by Norman Rush
1,457 members
20 reviews
3.8
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88
Veronica
by Mary Gaitskill
1,308 members
30 reviews
½ 3.3
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89
Mumbo Jumbo
by Ishmael Reed
1,217 members
15 reviews
3.8
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90
In a Lonely Place
by Dorothy B. Hughes
1,157 members
45 reviews
4.2
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91
A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories
by Will Eisner
1,139 members
42 reviews
4
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92
Desperate Characters
by Paula Fox
1,081 members
42 reviews
½ 3.7
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93
No-No Boy
by John Okada
882 members
26 reviews
½ 3.7
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94
The Old Drift
by Namwali Serpell
849 members
26 reviews
½ 3.6
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95
Deep Water
by Patricia Highsmith
840 members
26 reviews
½ 3.7
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96
Sabrina
by Nick Drnaso
820 members
37 reviews
3.8
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97
Winter in the Blood
by James Welch
803 members
13 reviews
½ 3.7
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98
Nevada
by Imogen Binnie
773 members
22 reviews
4.1
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99
So Far from God
by Ana Castillo
757 members
7 reviews
3.9
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100
Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book
by Maxine Hong Kingston
702 members
6 reviews
½ 3.5
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