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The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

82,964 members

1,304 reviews

3.8

10 Members: hipdeep, k8_not_kate, aulsmith, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

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The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

41,814 members

416 reviews

½ 3.4

10 Members: k8_not_kate, aulsmith, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, jaysbooks, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

3

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

39,151 members

518 reviews

4.1

10 Members: hipdeep, thorold, aulsmith, roby72, lemicnic1227, thecoroner, alex68, kara.shamy, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

4

To Kill a Mockingbird

90,024 members

1,559 reviews

½ 4.4

8 Members: hipdeep, k8_not_kate, aulsmith, roby72, jaysbooks, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

5

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

49,430 members

585 reviews

3.9

8 Members: hipdeep, k8_not_kate, thorold, aulsmith, roby72, jaysbooks, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Herman Melville

41,761 members

619 reviews

3.8

8 Members: thorold, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, jaysbooks, kara.shamy, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Toni Morrison

26,576 members

447 reviews

3.9

8 Members: k8_not_kate, thorold, roby72, lemicnic1227, alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

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Winesburg, Ohio

by Sherwood Anderson

6,547 members

136 reviews

3.8

8 Members: hipdeep, roby72, lemicnic1227, thecoroner, alex68, kara.shamy, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

9

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

77,172 members

1,197 reviews

3.8

7 Members: k8_not_kate, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Jeffrey Eugenides

29,088 members

660 reviews

4.1

7 Members: roby72, lemicnic1227, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FranzK72

11

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

19,527 members

247 reviews

4

7 Members: k8_not_kate, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FranzK72

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Little House in the Big Woods

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

19,460 members

306 reviews

4.1

7 Members: hipdeep, k8_not_kate, dara85, aulsmith, lemicnic1227, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

18,573 members

482 reviews

½ 4.3

7 Members: k8_not_kate, dara85, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Ralph Ellison

18,417 members

231 reviews

4

7 Members: thorold, aulsmith, lemicnic1227, thecoroner, alex68, kara.shamy, FranzK72

15

The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

10,751 members

212 reviews

4

7 Members: k8_not_kate, roby72, lemicnic1227, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy

16

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

38,419 members

369 reviews

3.9

6 Members: aulsmith, roby72, lemicnic1227, jaysbooks, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Vladimir Nabokov

35,295 members

635 reviews

4.1

6 Members: k8_not_kate, thorold, thecoroner, alex68, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Louisa May Alcott

33,230 members

473 reviews

4

6 Members: k8_not_kate, aulsmith, lemicnic1227, thecoroner, ahef1963, kara.shamy

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Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

26,041 members

477 reviews

½ 4.3

6 Members: k8_not_kate, dara85, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72

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The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

22,599 members

369 reviews

4.1

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

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The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

15,818 members

336 reviews

4

6 Members: k8_not_kate, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FranzK72

22

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

13,449 members

138 reviews

½ 3.4

6 Members: aulsmith, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72

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All the King's Men

by Robert Penn Warren

8,106 members

133 reviews

4.1

6 Members: aulsmith, roby72, lemicnic1227, thecoroner, alex68, Laura1124

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by Joseph Heller

44,367 members

578 reviews

4.1

5 Members: hipdeep, k8_not_kate, jaysbooks, ahef1963, caitlindyan

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by Jack Kerouac

30,446 members

424 reviews

½ 3.6

5 Members: aulsmith, roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, FranzK72

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by John Steinbeck

27,421 members

480 reviews

½ 4.4

5 Members: aulsmith, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

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The Corrections

by Jonathan Franzen

17,881 members

356 reviews

3.8

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

28

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

14,267 members

138 reviews

½ 3.6

6 Members: hipdeep, k8_not_kate, roby72, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,jaysbooks

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by Michael Cunningham

13,643 members

243 reviews

3.9

5 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

30

The Long Winter

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

12,008 members

110 reviews

4.2

5 Members: hipdeep, dara85, aulsmith, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

31

Go Tell It on the Mountain

by James Baldwin

6,918 members

134 reviews

3.9

5 Members: thorold, aulsmith, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

32

The Naked and the Dead

by Norman Mailer

4,539 members

49 reviews

3.9

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

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An American Tragedy

by Theodore Dreiser

4,375 members

52 reviews

3.9

5 Members: thorold, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

34

Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

44,623 members

724 reviews

3.9

4 Members: hipdeep, k8_not_kate, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

35

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

22,334 members

385 reviews

4

4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

36

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

by Michael Chabon

20,400 members

429 reviews

4.2

4 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, ahef1963, kara.shamy

37

by Willa Cather

15,242 members

310 reviews

3.9

4 Members: k8_not_kate, dara85, ahef1963, kara.shamy

38

by Cormac McCarthy

14,092 members

327 reviews

4.2

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, kara.shamy, FranzK72

39

12,406 members

182 reviews

3.8

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72

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The New York Trilogy

10,853 members

174 reviews

3.9

4 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

41

by Octavia E. Butler

10,722 members

407 reviews

4.2

4 Members: hipdeep, dara85, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

42

American Pastoral

8,853 members

188 reviews

3.9

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

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8,792 members

90 reviews

3.9

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

44

The Adventures of Augie March

4,238 members

80 reviews

3.8

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

45

by John Dos Passos

1,709 members

14 reviews

4

4 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

46

by Sinclair Lewis

1,705 members

50 reviews

4

4 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

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by Ray Bradbury

63,442 members

1,141 reviews

4

3 Members: k8_not_kate, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

48

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

49,202 members

777 reviews

4.1

3 Members: k8_not_kate, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

49

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

25,718 members

374 reviews

3.8

3 Members: k8_not_kate, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

50

A Confederacy of Dunces

by John Kennedy Toole

23,556 members

511 reviews

3.9

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

51

The Fountainhead

20,743 members

278 reviews

3.8

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

52

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

19,637 members

209 reviews

3.8

3 Members: roby72, jaysbooks, sundharj

53

American Psycho

by Bret Easton Ellis

16,141 members

337 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

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by John Steinbeck

11,180 members

214 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

55

This Side of Paradise

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

10,600 members

89 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: k8_not_kate, aulsmith, kara.shamy

56

10,247 members

208 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: k8_not_kate, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

57

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

by Fannie Flagg

10,012 members

213 reviews

4.1

3 Members: dara85, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

58

Absalom, Absalom!

by William Faulkner

8,635 members

115 reviews

4.1

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

59

The Glass Menagerie

by Tennessee Williams

7,454 members

76 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

60

Revolutionary Road

by Richard Yates

7,443 members

259 reviews

4

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

61

We Were the Mulvaneys

by Joyce Carol Oates

6,678 members

101 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

62

A Thousand Acres

6,641 members

143 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

63

5,699 members

68 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

64

Mason & Dixon: A Novel

by Thomas Pynchon

5,111 members

50 reviews

4

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

65

The Stand: Expanded Edition: For the First Time Complete and Uncut (Signet)

by Stephen King

4,982 members

72 reviews

½ 4.5

3 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

66

by Flannery O'Connor

4,395 members

124 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

67

by Christopher Isherwood

2,631 members

95 reviews

4

3 Members: aulsmith, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

68

2,287 members

28 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

69

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

26,712 members

319 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

70

by Gillian Flynn

26,227 members

1,636 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy

71

The Secret History

25,219 members

647 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

72

The Call of the Wild

22,830 members

346 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

73

by Arthur Miller

17,872 members

186 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: jaysbooks, ManWithAnAgenda

74

The Last of the Mohicans

by James Fenimore Cooper

15,277 members

145 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68,FranzK72

75

by David Foster Wallace

14,975 members

269 reviews

4.2

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68,ManWithAnAgenda

76

The Shipping News

by Annie Proulx

14,351 members

275 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

77

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison

12,589 members

137 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, kara.shamy

78

I Know This Much Is True

10,932 members

180 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

79

by Jonathan Franzen

10,701 members

425 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

80

Different Seasons

by Stephen King

10,238 members

136 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

81

The Bonfire of the Vanities

9,725 members

142 reviews

3.8

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68,jaysbooks

82

The House of Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

9,646 members

118 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

83

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

9,569 members

343 reviews

4.2

2 Members: alex68, kara.shamy

84

We Need to Talk About Kevin

by Lionel Shriver

8,541 members

412 reviews

4.1

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

85

Roots: The Saga of an American Family

7,604 members

100 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

86

The Beautiful and Damned

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

7,196 members

70 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: aulsmith, kara.shamy

87

by E. L. Doctorow

6,835 members

138 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

88

by Bret Easton Ellis

6,395 members

99 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

89

The Prince of Tides

6,381 members

114 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

90

by Thornton Wilder

5,894 members

80 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: aulsmith, ManWithAnAgenda

91

Tales of the City

by Armistead Maupin

5,399 members

113 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

92

Washington Square

4,860 members

99 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

93

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories

by Raymond Carver

4,372 members

71 reviews

4.1

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

94

Another Country

by James Baldwin

3,494 members

52 reviews

4.2

2 Members: aulsmith, ManWithAnAgenda

95

American Tabloid

by James Ellroy

3,093 members

45 reviews

4.1

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

96

3,044 members

34 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

97

Brokeback Mountain

by Annie Proulx

2,998 members

119 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

98

The Confessions of Nat Turner

by William Styron

2,951 members

40 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

99

by William Kennedy

2,657 members

52 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963

100

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

2,570 members

33 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

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