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Description: Fiction to help understand the history and culture of America.

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The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

72,045 members

1,165 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

36,502 members

372 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

34,258 members

471 reviews

4.1

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

4

To Kill a Mockingbird

78,364 members

1,432 reviews

½ 4.4

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

5

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

42,907 members

518 reviews

3.9

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

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by Herman Melville

35,525 members

541 reviews

3.8

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

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by Toni Morrison

22,800 members

405 reviews

3.9

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

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Winesburg, Ohio

by Sherwood Anderson

5,924 members

120 reviews

3.8

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

9

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

69,483 members

1,078 reviews

3.8

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

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by Jeffrey Eugenides

27,123 members

630 reviews

4.1

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

11

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

17,271 members

225 reviews

4

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

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by Ralph Ellison

16,357 members

212 reviews

4

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

13

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

32,819 members

323 reviews

3.9

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

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by Vladimir Nabokov

31,685 members

559 reviews

4.1

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

15

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

19,694 members

334 reviews

4.1

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

16

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

16,503 members

442 reviews

½ 4.3

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

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Little House in the Big Woods

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

16,180 members

287 reviews

4.1

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

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The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

9,693 members

201 reviews

4

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

19

All the King's Men

by Robert Penn Warren

7,306 members

129 reviews

4.1

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

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by Joseph Heller

39,994 members

525 reviews

4.1

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

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by Jack Kerouac

27,928 members

385 reviews

½ 3.6

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

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by Louisa May Alcott

26,394 members

398 reviews

4

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

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Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

23,424 members

441 reviews

½ 4.3

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

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by John Steinbeck

23,360 members

423 reviews

½ 4.4

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

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The Corrections

by Jonathan Franzen

16,575 members

340 reviews

3.8

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

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The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

13,905 members

300 reviews

4

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

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by Michael Cunningham

12,696 members

232 reviews

3.9

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

28

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

12,181 members

116 reviews

½ 3.6

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

29

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

11,140 members

128 reviews

½ 3.4

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

30

The Naked and the Dead

by Norman Mailer

4,136 members

46 reviews

3.9

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

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An American Tragedy

by Theodore Dreiser

3,994 members

48 reviews

3.9

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

32

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

by Michael Chabon

18,770 members

412 reviews

4.2

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

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by Cormac McCarthy

11,554 members

272 reviews

4.2

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

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American Pastoral

8,062 members

180 reviews

3.9

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

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7,952 members

85 reviews

3.9

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

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Go Tell It on the Mountain

by James Baldwin

5,748 members

112 reviews

3.9

4 Members: thorold, aulsmith, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

37

The Adventures of Augie March

3,846 members

73 reviews

3.8

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

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by Sinclair Lewis

1,536 members

44 reviews

4

4 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

39

by John Dos Passos

1,470 members

14 reviews

4

4 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

40

by Ray Bradbury

53,808 members

994 reviews

4

3 Members: k8_not_kate, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

41

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

43,969 members

704 reviews

4.1

3 Members: k8_not_kate, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

42

Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

38,986 members

659 reviews

3.9

3 Members: hipdeep, k8_not_kate, ManWithAnAgenda

43

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

22,931 members

336 reviews

3.8

3 Members: k8_not_kate, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

44

The Fountainhead

19,185 members

261 reviews

3.8

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

45

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

19,080 members

345 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

46

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

16,980 members

190 reviews

3.8

3 Members: roby72, jaysbooks, sundharj

47

American Psycho

by Bret Easton Ellis

13,859 members

289 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

48

by Willa Cather

13,590 members

286 reviews

3.9

3 Members: k8_not_kate, dara85, kara.shamy

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10,991 members

173 reviews

3.8

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

50

The Long Winter

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

10,069 members

96 reviews

4.2

3 Members: hipdeep, dara85, aulsmith

51

The New York Trilogy

9,807 members

155 reviews

3.9

3 Members: thecoroner, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

52

This Side of Paradise

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

9,413 members

86 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: k8_not_kate, aulsmith, kara.shamy

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9,178 members

179 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: k8_not_kate, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

54

by Octavia E. Butler

8,369 members

351 reviews

4.2

3 Members: hipdeep, dara85, ManWithAnAgenda

55

Absalom, Absalom!

by William Faulkner

7,648 members

106 reviews

4.1

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

56

A Thousand Acres

6,161 members

136 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

57

We Were the Mulvaneys

by Joyce Carol Oates

6,141 members

92 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

58

5,194 members

62 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

59

by Thomas Pynchon

4,615 members

40 reviews

4

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

60

by Christopher Isherwood

2,216 members

83 reviews

4

3 Members: aulsmith, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

61

2,072 members

24 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

62

American Gods {original}

33,589 members

931 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,aulsmith

63

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

24,182 members

298 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

64

A Confederacy of Dunces

by John Kennedy Toole

21,334 members

472 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

65

The Secret History

20,284 members

554 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

66

The Call of the Wild

20,104 members

321 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

67

The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition

by Stephen King

19,796 members

366 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

68

The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts

by Arthur Miller

15,350 members

158 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: jaysbooks, ManWithAnAgenda

69

The Shipping News

by E. Annie Proulx

13,424 members

249 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

70

The Last of the Mohicans

by James Fenimore Cooper

13,196 members

125 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68,FranzK72

71

by David Foster Wallace

13,156 members

243 reviews

4.2

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68,ManWithAnAgenda

72

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison

10,815 members

124 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, kara.shamy

73

by John Steinbeck

9,882 members

186 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

74

by Jonathan Franzen

9,538 members

409 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

75

The Bonfire of the Vanities

8,934 members

132 reviews

3.8

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68,jaysbooks

76

Different Seasons

by Stephen King

8,913 members

121 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

77

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

by Fannie Flagg

8,905 members

188 reviews

4.1

2 Members: dara85, ManWithAnAgenda

78

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

7,701 members

296 reviews

4.2

2 Members: alex68, kara.shamy

79

Revolutionary Road

by Richard Yates

6,786 members

246 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

80

6,735 members

91 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

81

The Glass Menagerie

by Tennessee Williams

6,572 members

70 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

82

Ragtime: A Novel

by E. L. Doctorow

6,238 members

123 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

83

The Beautiful and Damned

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

6,196 members

69 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: aulsmith, kara.shamy

84

by Bret Easton Ellis

5,775 members

90 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

85

by Thornton Wilder

5,074 members

69 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: aulsmith, ManWithAnAgenda

86

What We Talk about When We Talk about Love

by Raymond Carver

3,856 members

61 reviews

4.1

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

87

by Flannery O'Connor

3,846 members

112 reviews

3.8

2 Members: kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

88

Another Country

by James Baldwin

2,922 members

41 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aulsmith, ManWithAnAgenda

89

American Tabloid

by James Ellroy

2,834 members

44 reviews

4.1

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

90

2,747 members

29 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

91

The Confessions of Nat Turner

by William Styron

2,725 members

39 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

92

by William J. Kennedy

2,445 members

50 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963

93

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

2,364 members

30 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

94

Manhattan Transfer

by John Dos Passos

2,153 members

28 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

95

by Joyce Carol Oates

2,144 members

62 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

96

2,102 members

40 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

97

1,268 members

17 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

98

by Sinclair Lewis

604 members

13 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thorold, thecoroner

99

by Gillian Flynn

22,059 members

1,542 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

100

Franny and Zooey

by J. D. Salinger

14,811 members

169 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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