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The American Experience

Description: Fiction to help understand the history and culture of America.
Members: 18 participating members
ManWithAnAgenda, alex68, thecoroner, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FranzK72, aulsmith, roby72, k8_not_kate, hipdeep, dara85, thorold, lemicnic1227, jaysbooks, Laura1124, sundharj, caitlindyan

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The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

67,927 members

1,103 reviews

3.9

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

34,541 members

355 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

32,472 members

458 reviews

4.1

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

4

To Kill a Mockingbird

74,155 members

1,404 reviews

½ 4.4

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

5

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

40,666 members

507 reviews

3.9

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

6

by Herman Melville

33,225 members

513 reviews

3.8

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

7

by Toni Morrison

21,538 members

395 reviews

3.9

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

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Winesburg, Ohio

by Sherwood Anderson

5,701 members

118 reviews

3.8

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

9

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

66,474 members

1,047 reviews

3.8

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

10

by Jeffrey Eugenides

26,327 members

618 reviews

4.1

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

11

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

16,452 members

221 reviews

4

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

12

by Ralph Ellison

15,375 members

199 reviews

4

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

13

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

30,666 members

316 reviews

3.9

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

14

by Vladimir Nabokov

30,393 members

536 reviews

4.1

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

15

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

18,566 members

329 reviews

4.1

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

16

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

15,588 members

423 reviews

½ 4.3

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

17

Little House in the Big Woods

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

14,974 members

277 reviews

4.1

6 Members: hipdeep, k8_not_kate, dara85, aulsmith, lemicnic1227, ahef1963

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The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

9,291 members

192 reviews

4

6 Members: k8_not_kate, roby72, lemicnic1227, thecoroner, alex68, kara.shamy

19

All the King's Men

by Robert Penn Warren

6,977 members

123 reviews

4.1

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

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by Joseph Heller

38,266 members

503 reviews

4.1

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

21

by Jack Kerouac

26,860 members

369 reviews

½ 3.6

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

22

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

22,388 members

432 reviews

½ 4.3

5 Members: k8_not_kate, dara85, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

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by John Steinbeck

21,934 members

398 reviews

½ 4.4

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

24

The Corrections

by Jonathan Franzen

16,176 members

335 reviews

3.8

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

25

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

13,205 members

295 reviews

4

5 Members: k8_not_kate, thecoroner, alex68, kara.shamy, FranzK72

26

by Michael Cunningham

12,245 members

222 reviews

3.9

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

27

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

11,495 members

113 reviews

½ 3.7

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

28

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

10,478 members

127 reviews

½ 3.4

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

29

Little Women (Signet Classics)

by Louisa May Alcott

7,078 members

131 reviews

3.9

5 Members: k8_not_kate, aulsmith, lemicnic1227, thecoroner, kara.shamy

30

The Naked and the Dead

by Norman Mailer

3,991 members

44 reviews

3.9

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

31

An American Tragedy

by Theodore Dreiser

3,826 members

47 reviews

3.9

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

32

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

by Michael Chabon

18,248 members

403 reviews

4.2

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

33

by Cormac McCarthy

10,661 members

255 reviews

4.2

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

34

American Pastoral

7,742 members

171 reviews

3.9

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

35

7,682 members

82 reviews

3.9

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

36

Go Tell It on the Mountain

by James Baldwin

5,366 members

107 reviews

3.9

4 Members: thorold, aulsmith, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

37

The Adventures of Augie March

3,693 members

71 reviews

3.9

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

38

by Sinclair Lewis

1,454 members

43 reviews

4

4 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

39

by John Dos Passos

1,411 members

14 reviews

4

4 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

40

by Ray Bradbury

50,467 members

942 reviews

4

3 Members: k8_not_kate, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

41

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

42,112 members

666 reviews

4.1

3 Members: k8_not_kate, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

42

Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

36,666 members

634 reviews

3.9

3 Members: hipdeep, k8_not_kate, ManWithAnAgenda

43

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

21,926 members

319 reviews

3.8

3 Members: k8_not_kate, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

44

The Fountainhead

18,597 members

254 reviews

3.8

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

45

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

17,935 members

328 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

46

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

15,888 members

185 reviews

3.8

3 Members: roby72, jaysbooks, sundharj

47

American Psycho

by Bret Easton Ellis

13,052 members

274 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

48

by Willa Cather

12,972 members

279 reviews

3.9

3 Members: k8_not_kate, dara85, kara.shamy

49

10,536 members

161 reviews

3.8

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

50

The New York Trilogy

9,438 members

154 reviews

3.9

3 Members: thecoroner, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

51

The Long Winter

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

9,121 members

93 reviews

4.2

3 Members: hipdeep, dara85, aulsmith

52

This Side of Paradise

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

8,976 members

83 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: k8_not_kate, aulsmith, kara.shamy

53

8,809 members

177 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: k8_not_kate, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

54

by Octavia E. Butler

7,502 members

315 reviews

4.2

3 Members: hipdeep, dara85, ManWithAnAgenda

55

Absalom, Absalom!

by William Faulkner

7,329 members

104 reviews

4.1

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

56

A Thousand Acres

5,949 members

136 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

57

We Were the Mulvaneys

by Joyce Carol Oates

5,909 members

91 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

58

4,996 members

59 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

59

by Thomas Pynchon

4,440 members

39 reviews

4

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

60

by Christopher Isherwood

2,063 members

79 reviews

4

3 Members: aulsmith, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

61

1,982 members

23 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

62

32,736 members

903 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,aulsmith

63

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

23,081 members

293 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

64

A Confederacy of Dunces

by John Kennedy Toole

20,554 members

451 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

65

The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition

by Stephen King

18,960 members

363 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

66

The Call of the Wild

18,498 members

303 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

67

The Secret History

18,431 members

514 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

68

by Arthur Miller

14,350 members

151 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: jaysbooks, ManWithAnAgenda

69

The Shipping News

by E. Annie Proulx

13,041 members

245 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

70

by David Foster Wallace

12,541 members

236 reviews

4.2

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68,ManWithAnAgenda

71

The Last of the Mohicans

by James Fenimore Cooper

12,276 members

118 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68,FranzK72

72

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison

10,242 members

119 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, kara.shamy

73

by John Steinbeck

9,401 members

182 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

74

by Jonathan Franzen

9,198 members

398 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

75

The Bonfire of the Vanities

8,630 members

129 reviews

3.8

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68,jaysbooks

76

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

by Fannie Flagg

8,500 members

179 reviews

4.1

2 Members: dara85, ManWithAnAgenda

77

Different Seasons

by Stephen King

8,455 members

118 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

78

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

7,068 members

285 reviews

4.2

2 Members: alex68, kara.shamy

79

Revolutionary Road

by Richard Yates

6,593 members

244 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

80

6,377 members

88 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

81

The Glass Menagerie

by Tennessee Williams

6,274 members

65 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

82

by E. L. Doctorow

6,002 members

118 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

83

The Beautiful and Damned

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

5,806 members

65 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: aulsmith, kara.shamy

84

by Bret Easton Ellis

5,580 members

86 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

85

by Thornton Wilder

4,693 members

63 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: aulsmith, ManWithAnAgenda

86

by Flannery O'Connor

3,648 members

113 reviews

3.8

2 Members: kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

87

What We Talk about When We Talk about Love

by Raymond Carver

3,624 members

58 reviews

4.1

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

88

American Tabloid

by James Ellroy

2,719 members

43 reviews

4.1

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

89

Another Country

by James Baldwin

2,704 members

40 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aulsmith, ManWithAnAgenda

90

2,645 members

30 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

91

The Confessions of Nat Turner

by William Styron

2,610 members

35 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

92

by William J. Kennedy

2,368 members

48 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963

93

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

2,276 members

30 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

94

Manhattan Transfer

by John Dos Passos

2,047 members

24 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

95

by Joyce Carol Oates

2,046 members

60 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

96

2,016 members

38 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

97

1,220 members

16 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

98

by Sinclair Lewis

586 members

13 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thorold, thecoroner

99

by Gillian Flynn

20,393 members

1,497 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

100

Franny and Zooey

by J. D. Salinger

14,332 members

167 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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