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Twentieth Century American List
1.
The Great Gatsby
by:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.93 avg rating β 5,731,932 ratings
2.
To Kill a Mockingbird
by:
Harper Lee
4.26 avg rating β 6,689,512 ratings
3.
My Γntonia
by:
Willa Cather
3.84 avg rating β 144,876 ratings
4.
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by:
J.R.R. Tolkien
4.40 avg rating β 3,051,293 ratings
5.
Fahrenheit 451
by:
Ray Bradbury
3.97 avg rating β 2,719,253 ratings
6.
In Cold Blood
by:
Truman Capote
4.09 avg rating β 710,406 ratings
7.
Long Dayβs Journey into Night
by:
Eugene O'Neill
4.06 avg rating β 42,395 ratings
8.
A Streetcar Named Desire
by:
Tennessee Williams
3.98 avg rating β 328,898 ratings
9.
The Grapes of Wrath
by:
John Steinbeck
4.02 avg rating β 971,656 ratings
10.
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
by:
William S. Burroughs
3.46 avg rating β 96,903 ratings
11.
Cold Mountain
by:
Charles Frazier
3.89 avg rating β 248,122 ratings
12.
Invisible Man
by:
Ralph Ellison
3.92 avg rating β 198,742 ratings
13.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
by:
Shirley Jackson
3.92 avg rating β 273,839 ratings
14.
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by:
Zora Neale Hurston
3.99 avg rating β 377,816 ratings
15.
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
by:
Art Spiegelman
4.39 avg rating β 365,614 ratings
16.
The Souls of Black Folk
by:
W.E.B. Du Bois
4.31 avg rating β 44,287 ratings
17.
Mirror Mirror CD
by:
Gregory Maguire
3.29 avg rating β 31,892 ratings
18.
Lolita
by:
Vladimir Nabokov
3.87 avg rating β 919,288 ratings
18.
A Widow for One Year
by:
John Irving
3.77 avg rating β 64,059 ratings
20.
Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
by:
John Steinbeck
4.06 avg rating β 149,657 ratings
21.
The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
by:
Michael Shaara
4.33 avg rating β 90,461 ratings
22.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
by:
John Berendt
3.92 avg rating β 289,226 ratings
23.
Prodigal Summer
by:
Barbara Kingsolver
4.05 avg rating β 123,770 ratings
24.
Up Island
by:
Anne Rivers Siddons
3.90 avg rating β 6,985 ratings
25.
Something Wicked This Way Comes
by:
Ray Bradbury
3.90 avg rating β 146,005 ratings
26.
The Hundred Secret Senses
by:
Amy Tan
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 46,176 ratings
27.
Saving Fish from Drowning
by:
Amy Tan
3.47 avg rating β 32,828 ratings
27.
Girl with a Pearl Earring
by:
Tracy Chevalier
3.93 avg rating β 768,735 ratings
29.
Foundation (Foundation #1)
by:
Isaac Asimov
4.17 avg rating β 580,947 ratings
30.
Copper Crown
by:
Lane von Herzen
3.78 avg rating β 94 ratings
30.
Institutional Racism and the search for African American masculinity and identity in selected works of Richard Wright
by:
Khefa Nosakhere
4.43 avg rating β 7 ratings
32.
The Sun Also Rises
by:
Ernest Hemingway
3.79 avg rating β 482,069 ratings
32.
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
by:
Maxine Hong Kingston
3.73 avg rating β 33,278 ratings
32.
The Matarese Circle (Matarese, #1)
by:
Robert Ludlum
4.07 avg rating β 42,088 ratings
35.
House Made of Dawn
by:
N. Scott Momaday
3.62 avg rating β 10,239 ratings
36.
Death of a Salesman
by:
Arthur Miller
3.58 avg rating β 252,778 ratings
36.
Ceremony
by:
Leslie Marmon Silko
3.84 avg rating β 25,794 ratings
38.
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
by:
Flannery O'Connor
4.17 avg rating β 48,603 ratings
38.
Eaters of the Dead
by:
Michael Crichton
3.71 avg rating β 45,615 ratings
40.
The March
by:
E.L. Doctorow
3.78 avg rating β 13,886 ratings
41.
Winesburg, Ohio
by:
Sherwood Anderson
3.84 avg rating β 36,329 ratings
42.
The Castle in the Forest
by:
Norman Mailer
3.15 avg rating β 3,103 ratings
43.
Dutchman & The Slave: Two Plays by LeRoi Jones
by:
Amiri Baraka
3.80 avg rating β 3,174 ratings
43.
Nora, Nora
by:
Anne Rivers Siddons
3.62 avg rating β 3,344 ratings
45.
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
by:
Gregory Maguire
3.54 avg rating β 61,941 ratings
46.
Night Over Water
by:
Ken Follett
3.91 avg rating β 29,370 ratings
47.
The Maltese Falcon
by:
Dashiell Hammett
3.87 avg rating β 113,193 ratings
48.
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
by:
Alex Haley
4.45 avg rating β 163,554 ratings
49.
The Old Man and the Sea
by:
Ernest Hemingway
3.81 avg rating β 1,265,825 ratings
50.
Uncle Tomβs Cabin
by:
Harriet Beecher Stowe
3.92 avg rating β 239,371 ratings
51.
The Shipping News
by:
Annie Proulx
3.88 avg rating β 150,745 ratings
52.
Ghost Story
by:
Peter Straub
3.92 avg rating β 81,723 ratings
53.
Bag of Bones
by:
Stephen King
3.92 avg rating β 208,188 ratings
54.
The Talisman (The Talisman, #1)
by:
Stephen King
4.11 avg rating β 138,387 ratings
55.
Call Each River Jordan (Abel Jones, #3)
by:
Owen Parry
4.15 avg rating β 365 ratings
56.
Second Foundation
by:
Isaac Asimov
4.22 avg rating β 220,359 ratings
57.
In the Moon of Red Ponies (Billy Bob Holland, #4)
by:
James Lee Burke
4.12 avg rating β 3,596 ratings
58.
Sunset Limited (Dave Robicheaux, #10)
by:
James Lee Burke
4.07 avg rating β 7,067 ratings
59.
Last Car to Elysian Fields (Dave Robicheaux, #13)
by:
James Lee Burke
4.14 avg rating β 6,424 ratings
60.
Cadillac Jukebox (Dave Robicheaux, #9)
by:
James Lee Burke
4.05 avg rating β 7,115 ratings
61.
In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead (Dave Robicheaux, #6)
by:
James Lee Burke
4.17 avg rating β 10,829 ratings
62.
Jolie Blon's Bounce (Dave Robicheaux, #12)
by:
James Lee Burke
4.18 avg rating β 8,062 ratings
63.
Ethan Frome
by:
Edith Wharton
3.45 avg rating β 134,941 ratings
64.
The Man Who Invented Florida (Doc Ford Mystery, #3)
by:
Randy Wayne White
3.84 avg rating β 3,558 ratings
65.
Where Or When
by:
Anita Shreve
3.31 avg rating β 8,753 ratings
66.
Resistance
by:
Anita Shreve
3.79 avg rating β 9,481 ratings
67.
The Weight of Water
by:
Anita Shreve
3.65 avg rating β 29,583 ratings
68.
The Bonesetter's Daughter
by:
Amy Tan
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 131,942 ratings
69.
Burning Bright
by:
Tracy Chevalier
3.41 avg rating β 15,419 ratings