Genre :: American (126 books)

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  #192

  Cannery Row

  by John Steinbeck

  (7 Reviews)

  101 Points

  "Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream."

  

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  #194

  In Our Time

  by Ernest Hemingway

  (3 Reviews)

  99 Points

  "The strange thing was, he said, how they screamed every night at midnight."

  

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  #197

  Breakfast of Champions

  by Kurt Vonnegut

  (6 Reviews)

  98 Points

  "This is the tale of a meeting of two lonely, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast."

  

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  #199

  The Day of the Locust

  by Nathanael West

  (3 Reviews)

  98 Points

  "Around quitting time, Tod Hackett heard a great din on the road outside his office."

  

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  #203

  The Public Burning

  by Robert Coover

  (1 Review)

  97 Points

  

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  #207

  Jazz

  by Toni Morrison

  (4 Reviews)

  95 Points

  "Sth, I know that woman."

  

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  #209

  Rabbit, Run

  by John Updike

  (4 Reviews)

  95 Points

  "Boys are playing basketball around a telephone pole with a backboard bolted to it. "

  

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  #210

  The Complete Stories

  by Flannery O'Connor

  (1 Review)

  95 Points

  "Old Dudley folded into the chair he was gradually molding to his own shape and looked out the window fifteen feet away into another window framed by blackened red brick."

  

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  #211

  The Making of Americans

  by Gertrude Stein

  (3 Reviews)

  94 Points

  "Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard."

  

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  #216

  The Soft Machine

  by William S. Burroughs

  (3 Reviews)

  93 Points

  "I was working the hole with the Sailor and we did not bad fifteen cents on average night boosting the afternoons and short timing the dawn we made out from the land of the free but I was running..."

  

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