Best of American Literature

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Nominate your favorites from American authors.
1
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
72,335 members
1,172 reviews
3.8
7 Members
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The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
36,662 members
373 reviews
½ 3.4
6 Members
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3
Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
35,664 members
543 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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4
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
43,086 members
520 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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5
The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
69,656 members
1,081 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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6
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
78,655 members
1,433 reviews
½ 4.4
4 Members
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7
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
40,079 members
527 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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8
The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
23,001 members
337 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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9
The Shipping News
by E. Annie Proulx
13,441 members
250 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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10
Our Town
by Thornton Wilder
5,096 members
69 reviews
½ 3.7
4 Members
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11
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
39,169 members
665 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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12
Absalom, Absalom!
by William Faulkner
7,673 members
107 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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13
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
54,041 members
1,000 reviews
4
4 Members
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14
The Portrait of a Lady
by Henry James
10,762 members
125 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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15
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
34,498 members
1,407 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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16
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
34,378 members
475 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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17
The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
28,163 members
503 reviews
4
4 Members
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18
In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
23,807 members
467 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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19
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
24,266 members
298 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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20
The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
13,936 members
300 reviews
4
3 Members
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21
The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
30,781 members
506 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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22
The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane
11,194 members
128 reviews
½ 3.4
3 Members
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23
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
16,214 members
212 reviews
4
3 Members
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24
The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
16,620 members
341 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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25
Blood Meridian
by Cormac McCarthy
11,622 members
273 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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26
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
10,739 members
243 reviews
4
3 Members
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27
The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
20,405 members
558 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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28
The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck
13,871 members
264 reviews
4
3 Members
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29
Leaves of Grass
by Walt Whitman
10,320 members
85 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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30
The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
17,621 members
198 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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31
Cat's Cradle
by Kurt Vonnegut
22,353 members
300 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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32
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
44,093 members
706 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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33
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by Philip K. Dick
19,326 members
476 reviews
4
3 Members
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34
Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
12,245 members
116 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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35
White Noise
by Don DeLillo
11,013 members
173 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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36
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
32,988 members
328 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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37
The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
10,310 members
284 reviews
4
3 Members
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38
Fight Club
by Chuck Palahniuk
19,370 members
325 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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39
The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
20,262 members
321 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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40
Tender is the Night
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
12,950 members
183 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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41
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
26,534 members
401 reviews
4
2 Members
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42
Dune
by Frank Herbert
42,710 members
693 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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43
The Wizard of Oz
27 members
2 Members
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44
Franny and Zooey
by J. D. Salinger
14,846 members
171 reviews
4
2 Members
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45
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck
23,450 members
424 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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46
The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
9,196 members
179 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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47
The House of the Seven Gables
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
8,659 members
115 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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48
Creation
by Gore Vidal
1,574 members
24 reviews
4
2 Members
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49
Winesburg, Ohio
by Sherwood Anderson
5,945 members
120 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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50
Flowers for Algernon
by Daniel Keyes
15,827 members
381 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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51
The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
8,127 members
249 reviews
½ 3.4
3 Members
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52
V.
by Thomas Pynchon
5,209 members
36 reviews
4
2 Members
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53
No Country for Old Men
by Cormac McCarthy
11,112 members
292 reviews
4
2 Members
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54
Breakfast at Tiffany's
by Truman Capote
2,779 members
82 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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55
On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
27,968 members
387 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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56
Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis
5,791 members
90 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
57
The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
13,463 members
239 reviews
3.9
2 Members
sturlington, lewbs
58
The Iron Heel
by Jack London
1,484 members
38 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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59
Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner
5,472 members
183 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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60
Cannery Row
by John Steinbeck
9,919 members
186 reviews
4
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
61
The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair
11,678 members
129 reviews
3.8
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
62
Other Voices, Other Rooms
by Truman Capote
2,556 members
48 reviews
3.8
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
63
Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
27,186 members
631 reviews
4.1
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
64
The Confessions of Nat Turner
by William Styron
2,731 members
39 reviews
3.9
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
65
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
22,895 members
408 reviews
3.9
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
66
J R
by William Gaddis
1,382 members
19 reviews
4.2
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
67
Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
9,513 members
214 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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68
Sylvia Plath: The Collected Poems
by Sylvia Plath
3,967 members
22 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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69
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
by Hunter S. Thompson
14,376 members
192 reviews
4
2 Members
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70
Underworld
by Don DeLillo
7,985 members
85 reviews
3.9
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
71
A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
21,412 members
476 reviews
3.9
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
72
Nine Stories
by J. D. Salinger
11,766 members
112 reviews
4.1
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
73
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
17,321 members
226 reviews
4
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
74
The Naked and the Dead
by Norman Mailer
4,142 members
47 reviews
3.9
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
75
American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
8,078 members
180 reviews
3.9
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
76
The Recognitions
by William Gaddis
2,220 members
36 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
77
Gravity's Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon
10,777 members
141 reviews
4.1
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
78
Mason & Dixon
by Thomas Pynchon
4,626 members
40 reviews
4
2 Members
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79
American Tabloid
by James Ellroy
2,842 members
44 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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80
Portnoy's Complaint
by Philip Roth
7,381 members
155 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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81
The Man in the High Castle
by Philip K. Dick
13,840 members
357 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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82
Johnny Got His Gun
by Dalton Trumbo
3,702 members
75 reviews
4.2
Member
sturlington
83
The Goldfinch
by Donna Tartt
14,942 members
803 reviews
3.9
Member
lewbs
84
Howl and Other Poems
by Allen Ginsberg
5,574 members
67 reviews
4
2 Members
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85
Rosemary's Baby
by Ira Levin
4,634 members
139 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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86
Breakfast of Champions
by Kurt Vonnegut
16,284 members
167 reviews
4
Member
sturlington
87
Sophie's Choice
by William Styron
6,007 members
87 reviews
4.1
Member
sturlington
88
American Psycho
by Bret Easton Ellis
13,933 members
290 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
sturlington
89
The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
14,384 members
393 reviews
4.2
Member
sturlington
90
The Killer Inside Me
by Jim Thompson
2,409 members
87 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
91
Deliverance
by James Dickey
2,588 members
59 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
92
Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
17,070 members
190 reviews
3.8
Member
sturlington
93
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
19,158 members
346 reviews
4
Member
sturlington
94
Survivor
by Chuck Palahniuk
8,720 members
96 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
95
Choke
by Chuck Palahniuk
12,190 members
171 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
sturlington
96
Shutter Island
by Dennis Lehane
7,488 members
300 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
97
Mother Night
by Kurt Vonnegut
7,291 members
91 reviews
4.1
Member
sturlington
98
Sometimes a Great Notion
by Ken Kesey
2,812 members
45 reviews
4.2
Member
sturlington
99
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
by Kurt Vonnegut
6,289 members
55 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
100
Ragtime: A Novel
by E. L. Doctorow
6,261 members
125 reviews
3.9
Member
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