Genre :: American (126 books)

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  #110

  The World According to Garp

  by John Irving

  (11 Reviews)

  177 Points

  "Garp's mother, Jenny Fields, was arrested in Boston in 1942 for wounding a man in a movie theater."

  

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  #112

  Nostromo

  by Joseph Conrad

  (5 Reviews)

  173 Points

  "In the time of Spanish rule, and for many years afterwards, the town of Sulaco—the luxuriant beauty of the orange gardens bears witness to its antiquity—had never been commercially anything more..."

  

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  #113

  The House of Mirth

  by Edith Wharton

  (6 Reviews)

  172 Points

  "Selden paused in surprise."

  

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  #119

  Herzog

  by Saul Bellow

  (3 Reviews)

  162 Points

  "If I am out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog."

  

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  #121

  My Ántonia

  by Willa Cather

  (9 Reviews)

  159 Points

  "I first heard of Ántonia on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America. I was ten years old then; I had lost both my father and mother within a year,..."

  

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  #130

  Tropic of Cancer

  by Henry Miller

  (8 Reviews)

  151 Points

  "I am living at the Villa Borghese."

  

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  #131

  Tender is the Night

  by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  (8 Reviews)

  147 Points

  "The hotel and its bright, tan prayer rug of a beach were one.On the pleasant shore of the French Riviera, about half way between Marseilles and the Italian border, stands a large, proud,..."

  

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  #137

  The Bell Jar

  by Sylvia Plath

  (8 Reviews)

  141 Points

  "It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York."

  

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  #146

  JR

  by William Gaddis

  (2 Reviews)

  134 Points

  

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  #150

  Underworld

  by Don DeLillo

  (5 Reviews)

  132 Points

  "He speaks in your voice, American, and there's a shine in his eye that's halfway hopeful.Parla la tua lingua, l'americano, e c'è una luce nel suo sguardo che è una mezza speranza."

  

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