Genre :: American (126 books)

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  #532

  O Pioneers!

  by Willa Cather

  (4 Reviews)

  18 Points

  "One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away. A mist of fine snowflakes was curling and eddying about the..."

  

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  #537

  Darconville's Cat

  by Alexander Theroux

  (1 Review)

  17 Points

  

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  #547

  Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down

  by Ishmael Reed

  (1 Review)

  15 Points

  "Folks. This here is the story of the Loop Garoo Kid."

  

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  #550

  Nine Stories

  by J. D. Salinger

  (4 Reviews)

  15 Points

  "There were ninety-seven New York advertising men in the hotel, and, the way they were monopolizing the long-distance lines, the girl in 507 had to wait from noon till almost two-thirty to get her..."

  

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  #552

  The Bostonians

  by Henry James

  (1 Review)

  14 Points

  "Olive will come down in about ten minutes; she told me to tell you that."

  

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  #555

  The Education of Henry Adams

  by Henry Adams

  (1 Review)

  14 Points

  "Under the shadow of Boston State House, turning its back on the house of John Hancock, the little passage called Hancock Avenue runs, or ran, from Beacon Street, skirting the State House grounds,..."

  

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  #557

  The Last of the Mohicans

  by James Fenimore Cooper

  (4 Reviews)

  13 Points

  "It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered before the adverse hosts could meet. A wide and apparently an..."

  

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  #563

  Uncle Tom's Cabin

  by Harriet Beecher Stowe

  (6 Reviews)

  12 Points

  "Late in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting alone over their wine, in a well-furnished dining-parlor, in the town of P_______, in Kentucky."

  

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  #575

  Tobacco Road

  by Erskine Caldwell

  (1 Review)

  10 Points

  "Lov Bensey trudged homeward through the deep white sand of the gully-washed tobacco road with a sack of winter turnips on his back."

  

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  #580

  This Side of Paradise

  by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  (5 Reviews)

  10 Points

  "Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while."

  

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