Genre :: American (126 books)

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  #280

  Sixty Stories

  by Donald Barthelme

  (1 Review)

  76 Points

  

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  #291

  The Recognitions

  by William Gaddis

  (3 Reviews)

  74 Points

  "Even Camilla had enjoyed masquerades, of the safe sort where the mask may be dropped at the critical moment it presumes itself as reality."

  

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  #293

  Sula

  by Toni Morrison

  (3 Reviews)

  73 Points

  "In that place, where they tore the nightshade and blackberry patches from the roots to make room for the Medallion City Golf Course, there was once a neighborhood."

  

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  #296

  Young Lonigan

  by James T. Farrell

  (2 Reviews)

  72 Points

  

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  #299

  Portnoy's Complaint

  by Philip Roth

  (4 Reviews)

  71 Points

  "She was so deeply imbedded in my consciousness that for the first year of school I seemed to have believed that each of my teachers was my mother in disguise."

  

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  #311

  Angle of Repose

  by Wallace Stegner

  (3 Reviews)

  69 Points

  "Now I believe they will leave me alone."

  

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  #313

  The Golden Bowl

  by Henry James

  (1 Review)

  69 Points

  "The Prince had always liked his London, when it had come to him; he was one of the modern Romans who find by the Thames a more convincing image of the truth of the ancient state than any they have..."

  

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  #322

  Sister Carrie

  by Theodore Dreiser

  (3 Reviews)

  68 Points

  "When Caroline Meeber boarded the afternoon train for Chicago, her total outfit consisted of a small trunk, a cheap imitation alligator-skin satchel, a small lunch in a paper box, and a yellow..."

  

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  #323

  Death Comes for the Archbishop

  by Willa Cather

  (2 Reviews)

  68 Points

  "One summer evening in the year 1848, three Cardinals and a missionary Bishop from America were dining together in the gardens of a villa in the Sabine hills, overlooking Rome."

  

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  #341

  Ragtime

  by E. L. Doctorow

  (3 Reviews)

  65 Points

  "In 1902 Father built a house at the crest of the Broadview Avenue hill in New Rochelle."

  

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