Genre :: American (126 books)

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  #155

  Henderson the Rain King

  by Saul Bellow

  (1 Review)

  130 Points

  "What made me take this trip to Africa? There is no quick explanation. Things got worse and worse and worse and pretty soon they were too complicated."

  

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  #156

  Ironweed

  by William J. Kennedy

  (1 Review)

  130 Points

  "Riding up the winding road of Saint Agnes Cemetery in the back of the rattling old truck, Francis Phelan became aware that the dead, even more than the living, settled down in neighborhoods."

  

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  #163

  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

  by Ken Kesey

  (16 Reviews)

  122 Points

  "They're out there. Black boys in white suits up before me to commit sex acts in the hall and get it mopped up before I can catch them."They're out there.

  

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  #164

  The Adventures of Augie March

  by Saul Bellow

  (1 Review)

  120 Points

  "I am an American, Chicago born–Chicago, that somber city–and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; and sometimes..."

  

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  #167

  Housekeeping

  by Marilynne Robinson

  (4 Reviews)

  118 Points

  "My name is Ruth."

  

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  #169

  Ethan Frome

  by Edith Wharton

  (7 Reviews)

  117 Points

  "I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story. (Author's Introductory Note)The village lay under two feet of snow,..."

  

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  #175

  The bridge of San Luis Rey

  by Thornton Wilder

  (5 Reviews)

  114 Points

  "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travellers into the gulf below."

  

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  #185

  The Wings of the Dove

  by Henry James

  (2 Reviews)

  107 Points

  "She waited, Kate Croy, for her father to come in, but he kept her unconscionably, and there were moments at which she showed herself, in the glass over the mantel, a face postiively pale with the..."

  

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  #187

  The Red Badge of Courage

  by Stephen Crane

  (7 Reviews)

  104 Points

  "The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting."

  

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  #190

  Men Without Women

  by Ernest Hemingway

  (2 Reviews)

  101 Points

  "Manuel Garcia climbed the stairs to Don Miguel Retana's office. (THE UNDEFEATED)."

  

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