Genre :: American (126 books)

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  #412

  Franny and Zooey

  by J. D. Salinger

  (3 Reviews)

  47 Points

  "Though brilliantly sunny, Saturday morning was overcoat weather again, not just topcoat weather, as it had been all week and as everyone had hoped it would stay for the big weekend - the weekend of..."

  

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  #420

  Libra

  by Don DeLillo

  (2 Reviews)

  46 Points

  

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  #427

  Naked Lunch

  by William S. Burroughs

  (6 Reviews)

  44 Points

  "I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves, setting up their devil-doll stool pigeons, crooning over my spoon and dropper I throw away at Washington Square station,..."

  

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  #431

  Infinite Jest

  by David Foster Wallace

  (3 Reviews)

  42 Points

  "I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies."

  

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  #441

  Martin Eden

  by Jack London

  (2 Reviews)

  40 Points

  "The one opened the door with a latch-key and went in, followed by a young fellow who awkwardly removed his cap. He wore rough clothes that smacked of the sea, and he was manifestly out of place in..."

  

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  #447

  What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

  by Raymond Carver

  (3 Reviews)

  39 Points

  "(From Why Don't You Dance?) In the kitchen, he poured another drink and looked at the bedroom suite in his front yard."

  

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  #465

  Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

  by Grace Paley

  (1 Review)

  32 Points

  

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  #472

  Look Homeward, Angel

  by Thomas Wolfe

  (1 Review)

  31 Points

  "A destiny that leads the English to the Dutch is strange enough; but one that leads from Epsom into Pennsylvania, and thence into the hills that shut in Altamont over the proud coral cry of the..."

  

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  #474

  Skinny Legs and All

  by Tom Robbins

  (2 Reviews)

  31 Points

  "This is the room of the wolfmother wallpaper. The toadstool motel you once thought a mere folk tale, a corny, obsolete, rural invention."

  

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  #479

  You Shall Know Our Velocity

  by Dave Eggers

  (1 Review)

  30 Points

  "I was talking to Hand, one of my two best friends, the one still alive, and we were planning to leave."

  

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