Great American Novels
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81 books found
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
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Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
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The Scarlett Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Catch 22
Joseph Heller
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The Road
Cormac McCarthy
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
Willa Cather
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Angle of Repose
Wallace Stegner
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In Cold Blood
Truman Capote
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The Fault is in Our Stars
John Green
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky
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Charlotte’s Web
E.B. White
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The Mountain Lion
Jean Stafford
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The Adventures of Augie March
Saul Bellow
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers
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Dune
Frank Herbert
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The Help
Kathryn Stockett
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The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler
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Day of the Locust
Nathanael West
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An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser
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John Dos Passos
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Manhattan Transfer
John Dos Passos
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
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Cat’s Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Ken Kesey
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Sometimes a Great Notion
Ken Kesey
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
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Fight Club
Chuck Palahniuk
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A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin
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On the Road
Jack Kerouac
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The Subterraneans
Jack Kerouac
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Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Truman Capote
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The Dav Vinci Code
Dan Brown
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A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole
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Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides
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Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Stoner
John Williams
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The Martian
Andy Weir
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Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
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Sister Carrie
Theodore Dreiser
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My Antonia
Willa Cather
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O Pioneers
Willa Cather
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The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
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The Bridge at San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder
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All the King’s Men
Robert Penn Warren
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Go tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin
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The Moviegoers
Walker Percy
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Revolutionary Road
Richard Yates
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Gravity’s Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
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The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
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Light in August
William Faulkner
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Absalom! Absalom!
William Faulkner
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As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner
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Wise Blood
Flannery O'Connor
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Walden
Henry David Thoreau
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Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson
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American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith
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Flowers of for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
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Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
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Nine Stories
J.D. Salinger
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Tender is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Ready Player One
Ernest Cline
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Franey and Zooey
J.D. Salinger
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon
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A Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway
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Breakfast of Champions
Kurt Vonnegut
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All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
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Edith Wharton
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The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury
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The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt
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The Little Friend
Donna Tartt
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Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden
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Cannery Row
John Steinbeck
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A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
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House of Mirth
Edith Wharton
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No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy
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Bonfire of the Vanities
Tom Wolfe
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Executioners Song
Norman Mailer
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The Naked and the Dead
Norman Mailer
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Visit from the Good Squad
Jennifer Egan
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