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The American Experience

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

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The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

72,093 members

1,168 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

36,531 members

373 reviews

½ 3.4

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

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The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

34,272 members

471 reviews

4.1

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

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To Kill a Mockingbird

78,421 members

1,433 reviews

½ 4.4

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

5

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

42,936 members

518 reviews

3.9

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

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by Herman Melville

35,551 members

541 reviews

3.8

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

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by Toni Morrison

22,815 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

5,927 members

120 reviews

3.8

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

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The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

69,510 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

27,130 members

631 reviews

4.1

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

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The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

17,263 members

226 reviews

4

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

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by Ralph Ellison

16,371 members

212 reviews

4

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

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

32,854 members

324 reviews

3.9

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

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by Vladimir Nabokov

31,693 members

563 reviews

4.1

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

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The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

19,711 members

335 reviews

4.1

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

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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

16,512 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

16,193 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

9,696 members

202 reviews

4

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

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All the King's Men

by Robert Penn Warren

7,311 members

129 reviews

4.1

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

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by Joseph Heller

39,986 members

525 reviews

4.1

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

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by Jack Kerouac

27,926 members

386 reviews

½ 3.6

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

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by Louisa May Alcott

26,422 members

399 reviews

4

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

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Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

23,441 members

441 reviews

½ 4.3

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

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by John Steinbeck

23,379 members

423 reviews

½ 4.4

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

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The Corrections

by Jonathan Franzen

16,580 members

340 reviews

3.8

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

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The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

13,911 members

300 reviews

4

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

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by Michael Cunningham

12,700 members

232 reviews

3.9

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

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Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

12,190 members

116 reviews

½ 3.6

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

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The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

11,142 members

128 reviews

½ 3.4

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

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The Naked and the Dead

by Norman Mailer

4,140 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

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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

by Michael Chabon

18,780 members

413 reviews

4.2

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

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by Cormac McCarthy

11,562 members

272 reviews

4.2

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

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American Pastoral

8,065 members

180 reviews

3.9

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

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7,956 members

85 reviews

3.9

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

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Go Tell It on the Mountain

by James Baldwin

5,755 members

112 reviews

3.9

4 Members: thorold, aulsmith, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

37

The Adventures of Augie March

3,851 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

1,472 members

14 reviews

4

4 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

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by Ray Bradbury

53,865 members

995 reviews

4

3 Members: k8_not_kate, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

43,990 members

704 reviews

4.1

3 Members: k8_not_kate, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

39,026 members

662 reviews

3.9

3 Members: hipdeep, k8_not_kate, ManWithAnAgenda

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The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

22,944 members

336 reviews

3.8

3 Members: k8_not_kate, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

44

The Fountainhead

19,192 members

261 reviews

3.8

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

45

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

19,100 members

345 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

46

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

16,990 members

190 reviews

3.8

3 Members: roby72, jaysbooks, sundharj

47

American Psycho

by Bret Easton Ellis

13,870 members

290 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Willa Cather

13,602 members

286 reviews

3.9

3 Members: k8_not_kate, dara85, kara.shamy

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10,997 members

173 reviews

3.8

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

50

The Long Winter

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

10,082 members

96 reviews

4.2

3 Members: hipdeep, dara85, aulsmith

51

The New York Trilogy

9,818 members

155 reviews

3.9

3 Members: thecoroner, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

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This Side of Paradise

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

9,418 members

86 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: k8_not_kate, aulsmith, kara.shamy

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9,183 members

179 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: k8_not_kate, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Octavia E. Butler

8,383 members

351 reviews

4.2

3 Members: hipdeep, dara85, ManWithAnAgenda

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Absalom, Absalom!

by William Faulkner

7,653 members

107 reviews

4.1

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

56

A Thousand Acres

6,163 members

136 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

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We Were the Mulvaneys

by Joyce Carol Oates

6,145 members

92 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

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5,197 members

62 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

59

by Thomas Pynchon

4,617 members

40 reviews

4

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

60

by Christopher Isherwood

2,219 members

84 reviews

4

3 Members: aulsmith, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

61

2,073 members

24 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

62

American Gods {original}

33,606 members

932 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,aulsmith

63

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

24,194 members

298 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

64

A Confederacy of Dunces

by John Kennedy Toole

21,356 members

475 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

65

The Secret History

20,310 members

556 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

66

The Call of the Wild

20,143 members

321 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

67

The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition

by Stephen King

19,802 members

368 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

68

The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts

by Arthur Miller

15,369 members

158 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: jaysbooks, ManWithAnAgenda

69

The Shipping News

by E. Annie Proulx

13,430 members

250 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

70

The Last of the Mohicans

by James Fenimore Cooper

13,207 members

125 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68,FranzK72

71

by David Foster Wallace

13,159 members

243 reviews

4.2

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68,ManWithAnAgenda

72

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison

10,818 members

124 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, kara.shamy

73

by John Steinbeck

9,894 members

186 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

74

by Jonathan Franzen

9,540 members

409 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

75

The Bonfire of the Vanities

8,938 members

132 reviews

3.8

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68,jaysbooks

76

Different Seasons

by Stephen King

8,917 members

121 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

77

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

by Fannie Flagg

8,913 members

188 reviews

4.1

2 Members: dara85, ManWithAnAgenda

78

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

7,706 members

296 reviews

4.2

2 Members: alex68, kara.shamy

79

Revolutionary Road

by Richard Yates

6,788 members

246 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

80

6,743 members

91 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

81

The Glass Menagerie

by Tennessee Williams

6,579 members

70 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

82

Ragtime: A Novel

by E. L. Doctorow

6,244 members

123 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

83

The Beautiful and Damned

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

6,200 members

69 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: aulsmith, kara.shamy

84

by Bret Easton Ellis

5,779 members

90 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

85

by Thornton Wilder

5,077 members

69 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: aulsmith, ManWithAnAgenda

86

What We Talk about When We Talk about Love

by Raymond Carver

3,859 members

61 reviews

4.1

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

87

by Flannery O'Connor

3,850 members

112 reviews

3.8

2 Members: kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

88

Another Country

by James Baldwin

2,923 members

41 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aulsmith, ManWithAnAgenda

89

American Tabloid

by James Ellroy

2,836 members

44 reviews

4.1

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

90

2,750 members

29 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

91

The Confessions of Nat Turner

by William Styron

2,726 members

39 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

92

by William Kennedy

2,446 members

51 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963

93

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

2,366 members

30 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

94

Manhattan Transfer

by John Dos Passos

2,152 members

28 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

95

by Joyce Carol Oates

2,145 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

605 members

13 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thorold, thecoroner

99

by Gillian Flynn

22,063 members

1,542 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

100

Franny and Zooey

by J. D. Salinger

14,817 members

170 reviews

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Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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