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1

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

73,951 members

1,170 reviews

3.8

10 Members: hipdeep, k8_not_kate, aulsmith, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

2

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

37,473 members

373 reviews

½ 3.4

10 Members: k8_not_kate, aulsmith, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, jaysbooks, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

3

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

35,086 members

476 reviews

4.1

10 Members: hipdeep, thorold, aulsmith, roby72, lemicnic1227, thecoroner, alex68, kara.shamy, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

4

To Kill a Mockingbird

80,481 members

1,440 reviews

½ 4.4

8 Members: hipdeep, k8_not_kate, aulsmith, roby72, jaysbooks, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

5

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

44,085 members

523 reviews

3.9

8 Members: hipdeep, k8_not_kate, thorold, aulsmith, roby72, jaysbooks, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Herman Melville

36,439 members

544 reviews

3.8

8 Members: thorold, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, jaysbooks, kara.shamy, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

7

by Toni Morrison

23,412 members

408 reviews

3.9

8 Members: k8_not_kate, thorold, roby72, lemicnic1227, alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

8

Winesburg, Ohio

by Sherwood Anderson

6,043 members

121 reviews

3.8

8 Members: hipdeep, roby72, lemicnic1227, thecoroner, alex68, kara.shamy, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

9

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

70,757 members

1,089 reviews

3.8

7 Members: k8_not_kate, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

10

by Jeffrey Eugenides

27,454 members

634 reviews

4.1

7 Members: roby72, lemicnic1227, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FranzK72

11

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

17,662 members

226 reviews

4

7 Members: k8_not_kate, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FranzK72

12

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

16,896 members

445 reviews

½ 4.3

7 Members: k8_not_kate, dara85, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Ralph Ellison

16,552 members

211 reviews

4

7 Members: thorold, aulsmith, lemicnic1227, thecoroner, alex68, kara.shamy, FranzK72

14

The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

9,918 members

205 reviews

4

7 Members: k8_not_kate, roby72, lemicnic1227, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy

15

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

33,929 members

326 reviews

3.9

6 Members: aulsmith, roby72, lemicnic1227, jaysbooks, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

16

by Vladimir Nabokov

32,324 members

562 reviews

4.1

6 Members: k8_not_kate, thorold, thecoroner, alex68, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Louisa May Alcott

27,250 members

407 reviews

4

6 Members: k8_not_kate, aulsmith, lemicnic1227, thecoroner, ahef1963, kara.shamy

18

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

23,886 members

448 reviews

½ 4.3

6 Members: k8_not_kate, dara85, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72

19

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

20,248 members

338 reviews

4.1

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

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Little House in the Big Woods

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

16,959 members

293 reviews

4.1

6 Members: hipdeep, k8_not_kate, dara85, aulsmith, lemicnic1227, ahef1963

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The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

14,219 members

304 reviews

4

6 Members: k8_not_kate, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FranzK72

22

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

11,482 members

129 reviews

½ 3.4

6 Members: aulsmith, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72

23

All the King's Men

by Robert Penn Warren

7,461 members

128 reviews

4.1

6 Members: aulsmith, roby72, lemicnic1227, thecoroner, alex68, Laura1124

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by Joseph Heller

40,706 members

530 reviews

4.1

5 Members: hipdeep, k8_not_kate, jaysbooks, ahef1963, caitlindyan

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by Jack Kerouac

28,329 members

387 reviews

½ 3.6

5 Members: aulsmith, roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, FranzK72

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by John Steinbeck

23,973 members

429 reviews

½ 4.4

5 Members: aulsmith, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

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The Corrections

by Jonathan Franzen

16,849 members

343 reviews

3.8

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Michael Cunningham

12,809 members

230 reviews

3.9

5 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

29

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

12,522 members

116 reviews

½ 3.6

6 Members: hipdeep, k8_not_kate, roby72, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,jaysbooks

30

Go Tell It on the Mountain

by James Baldwin

5,936 members

112 reviews

3.9

5 Members: thorold, aulsmith, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

31

The Naked and the Dead

by Norman Mailer

4,225 members

47 reviews

3.9

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

32

An American Tragedy

by Theodore Dreiser

4,039 members

48 reviews

3.9

5 Members: thorold, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

33

Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

40,076 members

669 reviews

3.9

4 Members: hipdeep, k8_not_kate, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

34

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

19,599 members

348 reviews

4

4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

35

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

by Michael Chabon

19,061 members

414 reviews

4.2

4 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, ahef1963, kara.shamy

36

by Willa Cather

13,901 members

285 reviews

3.9

4 Members: k8_not_kate, dara85, ahef1963, kara.shamy

37

by Cormac McCarthy

11,975 members

280 reviews

4.2

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, kara.shamy, FranzK72

38

11,237 members

171 reviews

3.8

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72

39

The Long Winter

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

10,516 members

96 reviews

4.2

4 Members: hipdeep, dara85, aulsmith, ahef1963

40

The New York Trilogy

10,019 members

161 reviews

3.9

4 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

41

by Octavia E. Butler

8,728 members

357 reviews

4.2

4 Members: hipdeep, dara85, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

42

American Pastoral

8,223 members

178 reviews

3.9

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

43

8,096 members

86 reviews

3.9

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

44

The Adventures of Augie March

3,916 members

74 reviews

3.8

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

45

by Sinclair Lewis

1,569 members

46 reviews

4

4 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

46

by John Dos Passos

1,508 members

14 reviews

4

4 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

47

by Ray Bradbury

55,292 members

1,014 reviews

4

3 Members: k8_not_kate, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

48

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

45,003 members

710 reviews

4.1

3 Members: k8_not_kate, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

49

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

23,360 members

340 reviews

3.8

3 Members: k8_not_kate, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

50

A Confederacy of Dunces

by John Kennedy Toole

21,752 members

479 reviews

3.9

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

51

The Fountainhead

19,471 members

259 reviews

3.8

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

52

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

17,496 members

189 reviews

3.8

3 Members: roby72, jaysbooks, sundharj

53

American Psycho

by Bret Easton Ellis

14,190 members

296 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

54

by John Steinbeck

10,098 members

187 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

55

This Side of Paradise

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

9,643 members

85 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: k8_not_kate, aulsmith, kara.shamy

56

9,346 members

179 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: k8_not_kate, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

57

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

by Fannie Flagg

9,104 members

189 reviews

4.1

3 Members: dara85, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

58

Absalom, Absalom!

by William Faulkner

7,826 members

105 reviews

4.1

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

59

Revolutionary Road

by Richard Yates

6,883 members

246 reviews

4

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

60

The Glass Menagerie

by Tennessee Williams

6,732 members

71 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

61

A Thousand Acres

6,249 members

137 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

62

We Were the Mulvaneys

by Joyce Carol Oates

6,237 members

94 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

63

5,278 members

60 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

64

The Stand: Expanded Edition: For the First Time Complete and Uncut (Signet)

by Stephen King

4,984 members

71 reviews

½ 4.5

3 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

65

Mason and Dixon

by Thomas Pynchon

4,705 members

40 reviews

4

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

66

by Flannery O'Connor

3,950 members

112 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

67

by Christopher Isherwood

2,291 members

83 reviews

4

3 Members: aulsmith, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

68

2,119 members

24 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

69

American Gods {original}

33,199 members

928 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,aulsmith

70

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

24,569 members

297 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

71

by Gillian Flynn

22,742 members

1,539 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy

72

The Secret History

21,053 members

556 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

73

The Call of the Wild

20,903 members

323 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

74

The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts

by Arthur Miller

15,721 members

163 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: jaysbooks, ManWithAnAgenda

75

The Last of the Mohicans

by James Fenimore Cooper

13,595 members

129 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68,FranzK72

76

The Shipping News

by E. Annie Proulx

13,563 members

250 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

77

by David Foster Wallace

13,513 members

249 reviews

4.2

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68,ManWithAnAgenda

78

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison

11,078 members

123 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, kara.shamy

79

I Know This Much is True

10,327 members

171 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

80

by Jonathan Franzen

9,681 members

408 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

81

Different Seasons

by Stephen King

9,147 members

123 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

82

The Bonfire of the Vanities

9,079 members

131 reviews

3.8

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68,jaysbooks

83

The House of the Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

8,884 members

115 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

84

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

8,027 members

299 reviews

4.2

2 Members: alex68, kara.shamy

85

We Need to Talk About Kevin

by Lionel Shriver

7,911 members

398 reviews

4.1

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

86

6,895 members

90 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

87

The Beautiful and Damned

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

6,374 members

69 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: aulsmith, kara.shamy

88

Ragtime: A Novel

by E. L. Doctorow

6,335 members

125 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

89

The Prince of Tides

5,901 members

111 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

90

by Bret Easton Ellis

5,870 members

90 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

91

by Thornton Wilder

5,235 members

69 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: aulsmith, ManWithAnAgenda

92

Tales of the City

by Armistead Maupin

5,039 members

108 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

93

Washington Square

4,488 members

88 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

94

What We Talk about When We Talk about Love

by Raymond Carver

3,962 members

62 reviews

4.1

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

95

Another Country

by James Baldwin

3,025 members

41 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aulsmith, ManWithAnAgenda

96

American Tabloid

by James Ellroy

2,886 members

43 reviews

4.1

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

97

2,807 members

29 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

98

The Confessions of Nat Turner

by William Styron

2,770 members

38 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

99

Brokeback Mountain

by Annie Proulx

2,749 members

99 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

100

by William Kennedy

2,483 members

52 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963

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