Genre :: American (126 books)

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  #83

  Gravity's Rainbow

  by Thomas Pynchon

  (4 Reviews)

  221 Points

  "A screaming comes across the sky."

  

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  #86

  The Old Man and the Sea

  by Ernest Hemingway

  (25 Reviews)

  215 Points

  "He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish."

  

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  #89

  Go Tell It on the Mountain

  by James Baldwin

  (4 Reviews)

  208 Points

  "Everyone had always said that John would be a preacher when he grew up, just like his father."

  

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  #90

  All the King's Men

  by Robert Penn Warren

  (5 Reviews)

  207 Points

  "MASON CITY. To get there you follow Highway 58, going northeast out of the city, and it is a good highway and new. Or was new, that day we went up it."

  

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  #94

  The 42nd Parallel

  by John Dos Passos

  (3 Reviews)

  200 Points

  "General Mills with his gaudy uniform and spirited charger was the center for all eyes especially as his steed was extremely restless."

  

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  #99

  Light in August

  by William Faulkner

  (5 Reviews)

  188 Points

  "Sitting beside the road, watching the wagon mount the hill toward her, Lena thinks, 'I have come from Alabama: a fur piece.'"

  

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  #100

  The Scarlet Letter

  by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  (19 Reviews)

  187 Points

  "A throng of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods, and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the..."

  

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  #104

  The Heart is A Lonely Hunter

  by Carson McCullers

  (8 Reviews)

  181 Points

  "In the town there were two mutes, and they were always together."

  

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  #108

  An American Tragedy

  by Theodore Dreiser

  (4 Reviews)

  179 Points

  "Dusk - of a summer night."

  

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  #109

  White Noise

  by Don DeLillo

  (4 Reviews)

  178 Points

  "The station wagons arrived at noon, a long shining line that coursed through the west campus."

  

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