Genre :: American (126 books)

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  #354

  Call it Sleep

  by Henry Roth

  (2 Reviews)

  60 Points

  

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  #367

  Babbitt

  by Sinclair Lewis

  (1 Review)

  57 Points

  "The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods."

  

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  #376

  The Bonfire of the Vanities

  by Tom Wolfe

  (3 Reviews)

  55 Points

  "And then say what?" (Prologue)At that very moment, in the very sort of Park Avenue co-op apartment that so obsessed the Mayor ... twelve-foot ceilings ... two wings, one for the white Anglo-Saxon...

  

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  #386

  Blood Meridian

  by Cormac McCarthy

  (6 Reviews)

  53 Points

  "See the child."

  

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  #389

  American Pastoral

  by Philip Roth

  (3 Reviews)

  52 Points

  "The swede."

  

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  #397

  The Magnificent Ambersons

  by Booth Tarkington

  (2 Reviews)

  51 Points

  "Major Amberson had "made a fortune" in 1873, when other people were losing fortunes, and the magnificence of the Ambersons began then."

  

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  #403

  Leaves of Grass

  by Walt Whitman

  (6 Reviews)

  49 Points

  

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  #407

  Nightwood

  by Djuna Barnes

  (3 Reviews)

  49 Points

  "Early in 1880, in spite of a well-founded suspicion as to the advisability of perpetuating that race which has the sanction of the Lord and the disapproval of the people, Hedvig Volkbein—a Viennese..."

  

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  #408

  Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction

  by J. D. Salinger

  (1 Review)

  49 Points

  "One night some twenty years ago, during a siege of mumps in our enormous family, my youngest sister, Franny, was moved, crib and all, into the ostensibly germ-free room I shared with my eldest..."

  

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  #410

  Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

  by Hunter S. Thompson

  (9 Reviews)

  48 Points

  "We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like 'I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive . . .' And suddenly..."

  

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