Best of American Literature

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Nominate your favorites from American authors.
1
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
72,611 members
1,176 reviews
3.8
7 Members
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The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
36,810 members
375 reviews
½ 3.4
6 Members
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3
Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
35,669 members
545 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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4
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
43,280 members
520 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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5
The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
69,850 members
1,086 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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6
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
78,956 members
1,434 reviews
½ 4.4
4 Members
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7
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
40,186 members
529 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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8
The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
23,055 members
339 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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9
The Shipping News
by E. Annie Proulx
13,480 members
250 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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10
Our Town
by Thornton Wilder
5,118 members
69 reviews
½ 3.7
4 Members
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11
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
39,330 members
666 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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12
Absalom, Absalom!
by William Faulkner
7,714 members
107 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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13
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
54,270 members
1,006 reviews
4
4 Members
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14
The Portrait of a Lady
by Henry James
10,803 members
125 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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15
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
34,611 members
1,407 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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16
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
34,506 members
478 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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17
The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
28,281 members
505 reviews
4
4 Members
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18
In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
23,877 members
467 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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19
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
24,265 members
298 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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20
The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
13,988 members
302 reviews
4
3 Members
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21
The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
30,878 members
508 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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22
The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane
11,247 members
128 reviews
½ 3.4
3 Members
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23
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
16,270 members
212 reviews
4
3 Members
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24
The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
16,666 members
342 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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25
Blood Meridian
by Cormac McCarthy
11,677 members
274 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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26
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
10,789 members
244 reviews
4
3 Members
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27
The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
20,535 members
559 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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28
The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck
13,943 members
264 reviews
4
3 Members
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29
Leaves of Grass
by Walt Whitman
10,372 members
85 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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30
The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
17,669 members
199 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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31
Cat's Cradle
by Kurt Vonnegut
22,416 members
301 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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32
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
44,225 members
709 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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33
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by Philip K. Dick
19,429 members
476 reviews
4
3 Members
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34
Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
12,273 members
116 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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35
White Noise
by Don DeLillo
11,062 members
173 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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36
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
33,161 members
328 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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37
The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
10,348 members
285 reviews
4
3 Members
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38
Fight Club
by Chuck Palahniuk
19,371 members
325 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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39
The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
20,305 members
324 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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40
Tender is the Night
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
12,998 members
184 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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41
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
26,678 members
402 reviews
4
2 Members
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42
Dune
by Frank Herbert
42,939 members
695 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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43
The Wizard of Oz
27 members
2 Members
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44
Franny and Zooey
by J. D. Salinger
14,891 members
171 reviews
4
2 Members
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45
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck
23,550 members
425 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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46
The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
9,233 members
179 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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47
The House of the Seven Gables
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
8,697 members
115 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
48
Creation
by Gore Vidal
1,580 members
24 reviews
4
2 Members
sturlington, lewbs
49
Winesburg, Ohio
by Sherwood Anderson
5,961 members
121 reviews
3.8
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
50
Flowers for Algernon
by Daniel Keyes
15,912 members
383 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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51
The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
8,175 members
249 reviews
½ 3.4
3 Members
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52
V.
by Thomas Pynchon
5,221 members
36 reviews
4
2 Members
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53
No Country for Old Men
by Cormac McCarthy
11,169 members
292 reviews
4
2 Members
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54
Breakfast at Tiffany's
by Truman Capote
2,786 members
83 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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55
On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
28,025 members
387 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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56
Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis
5,807 members
91 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
57
The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
13,567 members
241 reviews
3.9
2 Members
sturlington, lewbs
58
The Iron Heel
by Jack London
1,491 members
38 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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59
Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner
5,487 members
183 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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60
Cannery Row
by John Steinbeck
9,947 members
186 reviews
4
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
61
The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair
11,722 members
129 reviews
3.8
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
62
Other Voices, Other Rooms
by Truman Capote
2,568 members
50 reviews
3.8
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
63
Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
27,261 members
632 reviews
4.1
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
64
The Confessions of Nat Turner
by William Styron
2,739 members
39 reviews
3.9
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
65
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
23,020 members
409 reviews
3.9
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
66
J R
by William Gaddis
1,387 members
19 reviews
4.2
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
67
Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
9,540 members
217 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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68
Sylvia Plath: The Collected Poems
by Sylvia Plath
3,980 members
22 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
69
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
by Hunter S. Thompson
14,412 members
193 reviews
4
2 Members
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70
Underworld
by Don DeLillo
8,004 members
85 reviews
3.9
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
71
A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
21,485 members
477 reviews
3.9
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
72
Nine Stories
by J. D. Salinger
11,803 members
112 reviews
4.1
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
73
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
17,369 members
226 reviews
4
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
74
The Naked and the Dead
by Norman Mailer
4,151 members
47 reviews
3.9
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
75
American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
8,105 members
181 reviews
3.9
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
76
The Recognitions
by William Gaddis
2,231 members
36 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
77
Gravity's Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon
10,812 members
141 reviews
4.1
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
78
Mason & Dixon
by Thomas Pynchon
4,643 members
40 reviews
4
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
79
American Tabloid
by James Ellroy
2,853 members
44 reviews
4.1
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
80
Portnoy's Complaint
by Philip Roth
7,405 members
155 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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81
The Man in the High Castle
by Philip K. Dick
13,905 members
359 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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82
Johnny Got His Gun
by Dalton Trumbo
3,712 members
76 reviews
4.2
Member
sturlington
83
The Goldfinch
by Donna Tartt
15,052 members
804 reviews
3.9
Member
lewbs
84
Howl and Other Poems
by Allen Ginsberg
5,601 members
67 reviews
4
2 Members
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85
Rosemary's Baby
by Ira Levin
4,663 members
139 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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86
Breakfast of Champions
by Kurt Vonnegut
16,320 members
167 reviews
4
Member
sturlington
87
Sophie's Choice
by William Styron
6,021 members
87 reviews
4.1
Member
sturlington
88
American Psycho
by Bret Easton Ellis
13,991 members
290 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
sturlington
89
The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
14,456 members
393 reviews
4.2
Member
sturlington
90
The Killer Inside Me
by Jim Thompson
2,418 members
87 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
91
Deliverance
by James Dickey
2,591 members
59 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
92
Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
17,116 members
190 reviews
3.8
Member
sturlington
93
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
19,257 members
348 reviews
4
Member
sturlington
94
Survivor
by Chuck Palahniuk
8,732 members
96 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
95
Choke
by Chuck Palahniuk
12,216 members
171 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
sturlington
96
Shutter Island
by Dennis Lehane
7,532 members
300 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
97
Mother Night
by Kurt Vonnegut
7,315 members
91 reviews
4.1
Member
sturlington
98
Sometimes a Great Notion
by Ken Kesey
2,817 members
45 reviews
4.2
Member
sturlington
99
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
by Kurt Vonnegut
6,310 members
55 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
100
Ragtime: A Novel
by E. L. Doctorow
6,282 members
125 reviews
3.9
Member
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