Genre :: American (126 books)

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  #1

  The Great Gatsby

  by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  (97 Reviews)

  994 Points

  "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since."

  

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  #2

  The Grapes of Wrath

  by John Steinbeck

  (35 Reviews)

  963 Points

  "To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth."

  

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  #7

  The Catcher in the Rye

  by J. D. Salinger

  (45 Reviews)

  735 Points

  "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they...

  

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  #9

  The Sound and the Fury

  by William Faulkner

  (15 Reviews)

  703 Points

  "Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting."

  

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  #10

  To Kill a Mockingbird

  by Harper Lee

  (64 Reviews)

  701 Points

  "When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow."

  

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  #15

  Invisible Man

  by Ralph Ellison

  (16 Reviews)

  640 Points

  "I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids—...

  

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  #18

  On the Road

  by Jack Kerouac

  (15 Reviews)

  543 Points

  "I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up."

  

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  #36

  Of Mice and Men

  by John Steinbeck

  (38 Reviews)

  349 Points

  "A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green."

  

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  #37

  Moby-Dick

  by Herman Melville

  (17 Reviews)

  348 Points

  "Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see..."

  

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  #39

  Native Son

  by Richard Wright

  (6 Reviews)

  348 Points

  "Brrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinng! An alarm clock clanged in the dark and silent room."

  

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