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The American Experience

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

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1

The Custom of the Country

by Edith Wharton

2,387 members

67 reviews

4

Global Rank 138

Member: kara.shamy

2

2,066 members

126 reviews

½ 3.5

Global Rank 141

Member: kara.shamy

3

The Last Tycoon

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

2,584 members

25 reviews

½ 3.5

Global Rank 137

Member: kara.shamy

4

by Toni Morrison

3,498 members

142 reviews

½ 3.7

Global Rank 130

Member: kara.shamy

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by Theodore Dreiser

4,039 members

60 reviews

½ 3.7

Global Rank 128

Member: kara.shamy

6

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

by Mohsin Hamid

5,217 members

250 reviews

½ 3.7

Global Rank 120

Member: kara.shamy

7

The Beautiful and Damned

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

6,197 members

69 reviews

½ 3.7

Global Rank 83

2 Members: aulsmith, kara.shamy

8

This Side of Paradise

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

9,415 members

86 reviews

½ 3.6

Global Rank 52

3 Members: k8_not_kate, aulsmith, kara.shamy

9

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison

10,815 members

124 reviews

4

Global Rank 72

2 Members: thecoroner, kara.shamy

10

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

13,907 members

300 reviews

4

Global Rank 26

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

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by Willa Cather

13,592 members

286 reviews

3.9

Global Rank 48

3 Members: k8_not_kate, dara85, kara.shamy

12

Fourth of July Creek

by Smith Henderson

925 members

52 reviews

3.9

Global Rank 154

Member: kara.shamy

13

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

7,702 members

296 reviews

4.2

Global Rank 78

2 Members: alex68, kara.shamy

14

by Flannery O'Connor

3,847 members

112 reviews

3.8

Global Rank 87

2 Members: kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

15

A Thousand Acres

6,161 members

136 reviews

½ 3.7

Global Rank 56

3 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

16

The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

9,693 members

201 reviews

4

Global Rank 18

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

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by Michael Cunningham

12,697 members

232 reviews

3.9

Global Rank 27

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

18

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

17,257 members

226 reviews

4

Global Rank 11

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

19

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

36,507 members

372 reviews

½ 3.4

Global Rank 2

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

20

by Herman Melville

35,531 members

541 reviews

3.8

Global Rank 6

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

21

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

72,056 members

1,165 reviews

3.8

Global Rank 1

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

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by Jeffrey Eugenides

27,126 members

630 reviews

4.1

Global Rank 10

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

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by Vladimir Nabokov

31,687 members

559 reviews

4.1

Global Rank 14

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

24

The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition

by Stephen King

19,798 members

367 reviews

½ 4.3

Global Rank 67

2 Members: kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

25

by Louisa May Alcott

26,395 members

398 reviews

4

Global Rank 22

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

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Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

19,086 members

345 reviews

4

Global Rank 45

3 Members: hipdeep, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Ralph Ellison

16,358 members

212 reviews

4

Global Rank 12

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

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by Gillian Flynn

22,062 members

1,542 reviews

3.9

Global Rank 99

Member: kara.shamy

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Prodigal Summer

by Barbara Kingsolver

8,990 members

196 reviews

4

Global Rank 109

Member: kara.shamy

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by Cormac McCarthy

11,556 members

272 reviews

4.2

Global Rank 33

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

31

Winesburg, Ohio

by Sherwood Anderson

5,925 members

120 reviews

3.8

Global Rank 8

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

32

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

69,490 members

1,078 reviews

3.8

Global Rank 9

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

33

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

34,262 members

471 reviews

4.1

Global Rank 3

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

34

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

by Michael Chabon

18,770 members

412 reviews

4.2

Global Rank 32

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

35

To Kill a Mockingbird

78,378 members

1,432 reviews

½ 4.4

Global Rank 4

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

36

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

19,696 members

334 reviews

4.1

Global Rank 15

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

37

All the Pretty Horses

by Cormac McCarthy

10,755 members

253 reviews

4

Global Rank 171

Member: kara.shamy,jaysbooks

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July 2013
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