Best of American Literature

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Nominate your favorites from American authors.
1
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
83,023 members
1,304 reviews
3.8
7 Members
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2
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
41,849 members
416 reviews
½ 3.4
6 Members
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3
Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
41,795 members
620 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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4
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
49,463 members
585 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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5
The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
77,221 members
1,198 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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6
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
90,105 members
1,559 reviews
½ 4.4
4 Members
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7
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
44,394 members
578 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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8
The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
25,734 members
374 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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9
The Shipping News
by Annie Proulx
14,358 members
276 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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10
Our Town
by Thornton Wilder
5,899 members
80 reviews
½ 3.7
4 Members
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11
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
44,661 members
724 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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12
Absalom, Absalom!
by William Faulkner
8,645 members
115 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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13
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
63,501 members
1,141 reviews
4
4 Members
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14
The Portrait of a Lady
by Henry James
12,172 members
139 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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15
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
38,977 members
1,513 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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16
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
39,181 members
519 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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17
The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
32,805 members
560 reviews
4
4 Members
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18
In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
26,903 members
518 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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19
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
26,736 members
319 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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20
The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
15,829 members
335 reviews
4
3 Members
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21
The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
35,449 members
562 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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22
The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane
13,460 members
138 reviews
½ 3.4
3 Members
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23
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
18,431 members
231 reviews
4
3 Members
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24
The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
17,890 members
356 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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25
Blood Meridian
by Cormac McCarthy
14,112 members
327 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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26
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
11,982 members
272 reviews
4
3 Members
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27
The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
25,265 members
648 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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28
The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck
15,324 members
290 reviews
4
3 Members
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29
Leaves of Grass
by Walt Whitman
11,453 members
97 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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30
The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
19,325 members
220 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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31
Cat's Cradle
by Kurt Vonnegut
24,912 members
347 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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32
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
49,234 members
777 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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33
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by Philip K. Dick
22,214 members
532 reviews
4
3 Members
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34
Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
14,274 members
139 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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35
White Noise
by Don DeLillo
12,416 members
182 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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36
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
38,446 members
369 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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37
The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
11,537 members
315 reviews
4
3 Members
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38
Fight Club
by Chuck Palahniuk
21,206 members
352 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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39
The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
22,847 members
346 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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40
Tender Is the Night
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
14,575 members
195 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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41
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
33,259 members
473 reviews
4
2 Members
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42
Dune
by Frank Herbert
50,709 members
806 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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43
The Wizard of Oz
by Lyman Frank Baum
52 members
1 review
½ 3.3
2 Members
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44
Franny and Zooey
by J. D. Salinger
16,167 members
196 reviews
4
2 Members
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45
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck
27,451 members
480 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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46
The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
10,255 members
208 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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47
The House of Seven Gables
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
9,650 members
118 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
48
Creation: A Novel {restored}
by Gore Vidal
884 members
17 reviews
4
2 Members
sturlington, lewbs
49
Winesburg, Ohio
by Sherwood Anderson
6,554 members
136 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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50
Flowers for Algernon
by Daniel Keyes
18,674 members
437 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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51
The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
9,443 members
296 reviews
½ 3.4
3 Members
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52
V.
by Thomas Pynchon
5,727 members
43 reviews
4
2 Members
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53
No Country for Old Men
by Cormac McCarthy
12,749 members
322 reviews
4
2 Members
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54
Breakfast at Tiffany's
by Truman Capote
4,188 members
101 reviews
3.8
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
55
On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
30,461 members
425 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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56
Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis
6,398 members
99 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
57
The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
15,954 members
272 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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58
The Iron Heel
by Jack London
1,758 members
43 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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59
Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner
5,987 members
198 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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60
Cannery Row
by John Steinbeck
11,187 members
214 reviews
4
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
61
The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair
13,314 members
146 reviews
3.8
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
62
Other Voices, Other Rooms
by Truman Capote
2,864 members
56 reviews
3.8
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
63
Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
29,103 members
660 reviews
4.1
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
64
The Confessions of Nat Turner
by William Styron
2,954 members
40 reviews
3.9
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
65
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
26,601 members
447 reviews
3.9
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
66
J R
by William Gaddis
1,610 members
20 reviews
4.1
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
67
Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
10,669 members
241 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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68
Sylvia Plath: The Collected Poems
by Sylvia Plath
4,469 members
23 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
69
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
by Hunter S. Thompson
15,699 members
212 reviews
4
2 Members
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70
Underworld
by Don DeLillo
8,803 members
90 reviews
3.9
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
71
A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
23,577 members
511 reviews
3.9
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
72
Nine Stories
by J. D. Salinger
12,759 members
124 reviews
4.1
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
73
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
19,543 members
247 reviews
4
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
74
The Naked and the Dead
by Norman Mailer
4,544 members
49 reviews
3.9
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
75
American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
8,860 members
188 reviews
3.9
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
76
The Recognitions
by William Gaddis
2,623 members
34 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
77
Gravity's Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon
12,137 members
155 reviews
4
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
78
Mason & Dixon: A Novel
by Thomas Pynchon
5,114 members
50 reviews
4
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
79
American Tabloid
by James Ellroy
3,096 members
45 reviews
4.1
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
80
Portnoy's Complaint
by Philip Roth
8,031 members
160 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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81
The Man in the High Castle
by Philip K. Dick
16,056 members
402 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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82
Johnny Got His Gun
by Dalton Trumbo
4,151 members
79 reviews
4.2
Member
sturlington
83
The Goldfinch
by Donna Tartt
18,393 members
869 reviews
3.9
Member
lewbs
84
Howl and Other Poems
by Allen Ginsberg
6,186 members
71 reviews
4
2 Members
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85
Rosemary's Baby
by Ira Levin
5,334 members
157 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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86
Breakfast of Champions
by Kurt Vonnegut
17,830 members
195 reviews
4
Member
sturlington
87
Sophie's Choice
by William Styron
6,572 members
91 reviews
4.1
Member
sturlington
88
American Psycho
by Bret Easton Ellis
16,164 members
337 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
sturlington
89
The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
16,493 members
414 reviews
4.2
Member
sturlington
90
The Killer Inside Me
by Jim Thompson
2,648 members
97 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
91
Deliverance
by James Dickey
2,852 members
63 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
92
Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
19,660 members
209 reviews
3.8
Member
sturlington
93
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
22,353 members
386 reviews
4
Member
sturlington
94
Survivor
by Chuck Palahniuk
9,295 members
105 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
95
Choke
by Chuck Palahniuk
12,955 members
181 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
sturlington
96
Shutter Island
by Dennis Lehane
8,458 members
331 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
97
Mother Night
by Kurt Vonnegut
8,116 members
100 reviews
4.1
Member
sturlington
98
Sometimes a Great Notion
by Ken Kesey
3,072 members
50 reviews
4.2
Member
sturlington
99
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
by Kurt Vonnegut
6,928 members
62 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
100
Ragtime
by E. L. Doctorow
6,840 members
139 reviews
3.9
Member
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