American 20th Century

1.
My Ántonia
My Ántonia 3.84 avg rating — 144,876 ratings
2.
Seize the Day
Seize the Day 3.53 avg rating — 13,350 ratings
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Look Homeward, Angel
Look Homeward, Angel 3.92 avg rating — 15,524 ratings
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The Poetry of Robert Frost
The Poetry of Robert Frost 4.24 avg rating — 48,974 ratings
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In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood 4.09 avg rating — 710,417 ratings
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The Complete Poems
The Complete Poems 4.15 avg rating — 3,167 ratings
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As I Lay Dying
As I Lay Dying 3.72 avg rating — 182,491 ratings
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The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway 4.29 avg rating — 37,558 ratings
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The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury 3.86 avg rating — 192,286 ratings
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A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms 3.82 avg rating — 344,508 ratings
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The Garden of Eden
The Garden of Eden 3.70 avg rating — 23,187 ratings
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The Collected Poems
The Collected Poems 4.36 avg rating — 18,158 ratings
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The Hamlet (The Snopes Trilogy, #1)
The Hamlet (The Snopes Trilogy, #1) 3.86 avg rating — 5,832 ratings
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Tender Is the Night
Tender Is the Night 3.77 avg rating — 146,446 ratings
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Herzog
Herzog 3.76 avg rating — 22,521 ratings
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The Moviegoer
The Moviegoer 3.64 avg rating — 30,281 ratings
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Portnoy’s Complaint
Portnoy’s Complaint 3.71 avg rating — 72,175 ratings
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Long Day’s Journey into Night
Long Day’s Journey into Night 4.06 avg rating — 42,396 ratings
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A Streetcar Named Desire
A Streetcar Named Desire 3.98 avg rating — 328,900 ratings
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter 3.99 avg rating — 116,850 ratings
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The Sheltering Sky
The Sheltering Sky 3.89 avg rating — 30,065 ratings
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Mao II
Mao II 3.69 avg rating — 12,829 ratings
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Selected Poems (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
Selected Poems (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) 3.97 avg rating — 129 ratings
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The Recognitions
The Recognitions 4.20 avg rating — 6,164 ratings
23.
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents 4.53 avg rating — 156,146 ratings
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Richard Wright: The Library of America Unexpurgated Edition: Native Son / Uncle Tom's Children / Black Boy / and more
Richard Wright: The Library of America Unexpurgated Edition: Native Son / Uncle Tom's Children / Black Boy / and more 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Custom of the Country
The Custom of the Country 4.06 avg rating — 15,423 ratings
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The Future Is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women, from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin
The Future Is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women, from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin 4.10 avg rating — 683 ratings
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The New York Stories of Edith Wharton
The New York Stories of Edith Wharton 4.18 avg rating — 997 ratings
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Child of God
Child of God 3.82 avg rating — 52,923 ratings
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Six Novels in Woodcuts
Six Novels in Woodcuts
by: Lynd Ward
4.50 avg rating — 299 ratings
32.
Three Lives
Three Lives 3.07 avg rating — 4,475 ratings
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Zora Neale Hurston: Novels & Stories
Zora Neale Hurston: Novels & Stories 4.37 avg rating — 625 ratings
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Tender Buttons
Tender Buttons 3.65 avg rating — 7,004 ratings
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Zora Neale Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs, & Other Writings
Zora Neale Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs, & Other Writings 4.34 avg rating — 257 ratings
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The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play
The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play 4.33 avg rating — 2,214 ratings
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James Thurber: Writings & Drawings
James Thurber: Writings & Drawings 4.35 avg rating — 389 ratings
38.
Spoon River Anthology
Spoon River Anthology 4.04 avg rating — 13,414 ratings
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Essays 1969-1990 (LOA #316) (Library of America Wendell Berry Edition)
Essays 1969-1990 (LOA #316) (Library of America Wendell Berry Edition) 4.48 avg rating — 48 ratings
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An American Tragedy
An American Tragedy 3.97 avg rating — 38,269 ratings
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Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s: A Library of America Boxed Set
Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s: A Library of America Boxed Set 4.26 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Sister Carrie
Sister Carrie 3.77 avg rating — 41,371 ratings
42.
The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion
The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion 3.67 avg rating — 28,236 ratings
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five 4.10 avg rating — 1,451,407 ratings
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Winesburg, Ohio
Winesburg, Ohio 3.84 avg rating — 36,329 ratings
45.
All the King's Men
All the King's Men 4.09 avg rating — 65,743 ratings
45.
Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories / Letting Go
Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories / Letting Go 4.02 avg rating — 542 ratings
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Babbitt
Babbitt 3.69 avg rating — 24,525 ratings
48.
Suttree
Suttree 4.20 avg rating — 27,024 ratings
48.
Travel Books and Other Writings, 1916-1941
Travel Books and Other Writings, 1916-1941 4.05 avg rating — 41 ratings
51.
It Can't Happen Here
It Can't Happen Here 3.80 avg rating — 22,850 ratings
51.
Lolita
Lolita 3.87 avg rating — 919,309 ratings
51.
U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money
U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money 4.12 avg rating — 4,966 ratings
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The Collected Stories of William Carlos Williams
The Collected Stories of William Carlos Williams 3.95 avg rating — 150 ratings
54.
Novels, 1926-1929
Novels, 1926-1929 4.40 avg rating — 215 ratings
56.
The Cantos
The Cantos 3.92 avg rating — 5,373 ratings
56.
The Portable Faulkner
The Portable Faulkner 4.30 avg rating — 888 ratings
58.
Literary Essays of Ezra Pound
Literary Essays of Ezra Pound 4.05 avg rating — 559 ratings
59.
Complete Poems
Complete Poems 4.02 avg rating — 3,151 ratings
59.
The Day of the Locust
The Day of the Locust 3.70 avg rating — 23,732 ratings
61.
The Collected Works of T.S. Eliot
The Collected Works of T.S. Eliot 4.39 avg rating — 356 ratings
61.
The Wings of the Dove
The Wings of the Dove 3.79 avg rating — 17,385 ratings
61.
Go Down, Moses
Go Down, Moses 3.93 avg rating — 10,440 ratings
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The Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950
The Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950 4.34 avg rating — 6,974 ratings
64.
Absalom, Absalom!
Absalom, Absalom! 3.99 avg rating — 47,017 ratings
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Novels 1936–1940: Absalom, Absalom! / The Unvanquished / If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem / The Hamlet
Novels 1936–1940: Absalom, Absalom! / The Unvanquished / If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem / The Hamlet 4.47 avg rating — 367 ratings
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Selected Poems
Selected Poems 4.21 avg rating — 151 ratings
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Miss Lonelyhearts
Miss Lonelyhearts 3.57 avg rating — 6,856 ratings
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Novels 1930-1935: As I Lay Dying / Sanctuary / Light in August / Pylon
Novels 1930-1935: As I Lay Dying / Sanctuary / Light in August / Pylon 4.35 avg rating — 1,122 ratings
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Manhattan Transfer
Manhattan Transfer 3.64 avg rating — 7,034 ratings
70.
Light in August
Light in August 3.94 avg rating — 65,245 ratings
72.
The Big Money (U.S.A., #3)
The Big Money (U.S.A., #3) 4.02 avg rating — 2,934 ratings
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The Collected Poems
The Collected Poems 4.27 avg rating — 11,537 ratings
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Every Day by the Sun: A Memoir of the Faulkners of Mississippi
Every Day by the Sun: A Memoir of the Faulkners of Mississippi 3.80 avg rating — 503 ratings
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1919 (U.S.A., #2)
1919 (U.S.A., #2) 3.97 avg rating — 3,236 ratings
75.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
For Whom the Bell Tolls 3.99 avg rating — 311,431 ratings
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E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962
E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962 4.35 avg rating — 21,533 ratings
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Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems
Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems 4.22 avg rating — 1,567 ratings
79.
Lazarus Laughed
Lazarus Laughed 3.33 avg rating — 69 ratings
79.
The William Carlos Williams Reader
The William Carlos Williams Reader 4.29 avg rating — 95 ratings
81.
The Changing Light at Sandover
The Changing Light at Sandover 4.25 avg rating — 509 ratings
81.
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West 4.16 avg rating — 204,532 ratings
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Selected Poems
Selected Poems 4.17 avg rating — 15,023 ratings
84.
Collected Stories
Collected Stories 4.34 avg rating — 64 ratings
84.
Invisible Man
Invisible Man 3.92 avg rating — 198,742 ratings
84.
The Doctor Stories
The Doctor Stories 3.86 avg rating — 752 ratings
87.
The Iceman Cometh
The Iceman Cometh 3.90 avg rating — 10,051 ratings
87.
The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises 3.79 avg rating — 482,079 ratings
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Poems 1957-1967
Poems 1957-1967 4.26 avg rating — 212 ratings
90.
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby 3.93 avg rating — 5,731,995 ratings
90.
Buckdancer's Choice
Buckdancer's Choice 4.04 avg rating — 114 ratings
92.
The Sot-Weed Factor
The Sot-Weed Factor 4.12 avg rating — 7,626 ratings
92.
Rosiebelle Lee Wildcat Tennessee: A Novel (Brown Thrasher Books)
Rosiebelle Lee Wildcat Tennessee: A Novel (Brown Thrasher Books) 4.54 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Appalachee Red: A Novel (Brown Thrasher Books Ser.)
Appalachee Red: A Novel (Brown Thrasher Books Ser.) 4.14 avg rating — 58 ratings
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The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye 4.13 avg rating — 288,139 ratings
96.
Babylon Revisited and Other Stories
Babylon Revisited and Other Stories 3.98 avg rating — 5,786 ratings
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Cane
Cane 3.82 avg rating — 11,323 ratings
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Sanctuary
Sanctuary 3.63 avg rating — 14,460 ratings
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The Wild Palms
The Wild Palms 3.86 avg rating — 5,694 ratings
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Under the Vulture Tree
Under the Vulture Tree 4.39 avg rating — 23 ratings
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