Best of American Literature

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Nominate your favorites from American authors.
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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
69,565 members
1,132 reviews
3.8
7 Members
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The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
35,217 members
359 reviews
½ 3.4
6 Members
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3
Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
34,037 members
519 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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4
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
41,586 members
509 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
67,579 members
1,061 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
76,151 members
1,431 reviews
½ 4.4
4 Members
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Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
38,876 members
513 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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8
The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
22,298 members
323 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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The Shipping News
by E. Annie Proulx
13,240 members
248 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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10
Our Town
by Thornton Wilder
4,840 members
66 reviews
½ 3.7
4 Members
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Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
37,660 members
641 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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Absalom, Absalom!
by William Faulkner
7,440 members
107 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
51,685 members
978 reviews
4
4 Members
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14
The Portrait of a Lady
by Henry James
10,569 members
126 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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15
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
33,301 members
1,385 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
33,132 members
460 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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17
The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
27,128 members
482 reviews
4
4 Members
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In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
22,900 members
453 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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19
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
23,484 members
295 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
13,437 members
296 reviews
4
3 Members
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21
The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
29,584 members
491 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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22
The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane
10,733 members
126 reviews
½ 3.4
3 Members
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Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
15,719 members
203 reviews
4
3 Members
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24
The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
16,262 members
338 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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Blood Meridian
by Cormac McCarthy
11,027 members
262 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
10,442 members
237 reviews
4
3 Members
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The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
19,115 members
526 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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28
The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck
13,414 members
262 reviews
4
3 Members
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29
Leaves of Grass
by Walt Whitman
9,861 members
80 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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30
The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
17,274 members
196 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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31
Cat's Cradle
by Kurt Vonnegut
21,735 members
291 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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32
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
42,728 members
683 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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33
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by Philip K. Dick
18,499 members
465 reviews
4
3 Members
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34
Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
11,735 members
114 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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35
White Noise
by Don DeLillo
10,671 members
166 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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36
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
31,526 members
319 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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37
The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
9,970 members
277 reviews
4
3 Members
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38
Fight Club
by Chuck Palahniuk
19,001 members
319 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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39
The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
19,160 members
310 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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40
Tender is the Night
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
12,529 members
180 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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41
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
25,342 members
391 reviews
4
2 Members
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42
Dune
by Frank Herbert
40,096 members
649 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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The Wizard of Oz
27 members
2 Members
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44
Franny and Zooey
by J. D. Salinger
14,481 members
166 reviews
4
2 Members
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45
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck
22,441 members
406 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
8,929 members
177 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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47
The House of the Seven Gables
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
8,343 members
112 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
48
Creation
by Gore Vidal
1,528 members
23 reviews
4
2 Members
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49
Winesburg, Ohio
by Sherwood Anderson
5,765 members
120 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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Flowers for Algernon
by Daniel Keyes
15,168 members
372 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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51
The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
7,777 members
240 reviews
½ 3.4
3 Members
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V.
by Thomas Pynchon
5,060 members
34 reviews
4
2 Members
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53
No Country for Old Men
by Cormac McCarthy
10,767 members
287 reviews
4
2 Members
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54
Breakfast at Tiffany's
by Truman Capote
2,652 members
77 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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55
On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
27,248 members
382 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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56
Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis
5,655 members
87 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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57
The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
12,895 members
227 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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58
The Iron Heel
by Jack London
1,419 members
37 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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59
Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner
5,335 members
179 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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60
Cannery Row
by John Steinbeck
9,590 members
182 reviews
4
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
61
The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair
11,270 members
127 reviews
3.8
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
62
Other Voices, Other Rooms
by Truman Capote
2,476 members
48 reviews
3.8
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
63
Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
26,647 members
621 reviews
4.1
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
64
The Confessions of Nat Turner
by William Styron
2,641 members
35 reviews
3.9
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
65
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
22,011 members
399 reviews
3.9
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
66
J R
by William Gaddis
1,313 members
18 reviews
4.2
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
67
Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
9,252 members
209 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
sturlington, lewbs
68
Sylvia Plath: The Collected Poems
by Sylvia Plath
3,840 members
22 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
69
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
by Hunter S. Thompson
14,009 members
189 reviews
4
2 Members
sturlington, ahef1963
70
Underworld
by Don DeLillo
7,773 members
82 reviews
3.9
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
71
A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
20,909 members
456 reviews
3.9
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
72
Nine Stories
by J. D. Salinger
11,459 members
110 reviews
4.1
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
73
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
16,752 members
221 reviews
4
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
74
The Naked and the Dead
by Norman Mailer
4,036 members
44 reviews
3.9
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
75
American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
7,870 members
176 reviews
3.9
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
76
The Recognitions
by William Gaddis
2,118 members
35 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
77
Gravity's Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon
10,436 members
141 reviews
4.1
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
78
Mason & Dixon
by Thomas Pynchon
4,491 members
39 reviews
4
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
79
American Tabloid
by James Ellroy
2,757 members
44 reviews
4.1
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
80
Portnoy's Complaint
by Philip Roth
7,213 members
149 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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81
The Man in the High Castle
by Philip K. Dick
13,270 members
343 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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82
Johnny Got His Gun
by Dalton Trumbo
3,571 members
73 reviews
4.2
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sturlington
83
The Goldfinch
by Donna Tartt
14,156 members
767 reviews
3.9
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lewbs
84
Howl and Other Poems
by Allen Ginsberg
5,388 members
67 reviews
4
2 Members
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85
Rosemary's Baby
by Ira Levin
4,442 members
133 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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86
Breakfast of Champions
by Kurt Vonnegut
15,879 members
163 reviews
4
Member
sturlington
87
Sophie's Choice
by William Styron
5,839 members
85 reviews
4.1
Member
sturlington
88
American Psycho
by Bret Easton Ellis
13,424 members
278 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
sturlington
89
The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
13,818 members
380 reviews
4.2
Member
sturlington
90
The Killer Inside Me
by Jim Thompson
2,346 members
82 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
91
Deliverance
by James Dickey
2,497 members
58 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
92
Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
16,314 members
188 reviews
3.8
Member
sturlington
93
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
18,394 members
337 reviews
4
Member
sturlington
94
Survivor
by Chuck Palahniuk
8,563 members
94 reviews
3.8
Member
sturlington
95
Choke
by Chuck Palahniuk
11,968 members
167 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
sturlington
96
Shutter Island
by Dennis Lehane
7,418 members
294 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
97
Mother Night
by Kurt Vonnegut
7,093 members
89 reviews
4.1
Member
sturlington
98
Sometimes a Great Notion
by Ken Kesey
2,728 members
45 reviews
4.2
Member
sturlington
99
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
by Kurt Vonnegut
6,123 members
51 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
100
Ragtime
by E. L. Doctorow
6,088 members
118 reviews
3.9
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