Appendix D: The Chaotic Age, Pt 9: The United States continued (Harold Bloom's Western Canon)

1.
Herzog
Herzog 3.76 avg rating — 22,521 ratings
2.
In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood 4.09 avg rating — 710,424 ratings
3.
The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye 3.80 avg rating — 3,800,879 ratings
4.
The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie 3.74 avg rating — 141,063 ratings
5.
Gravity’s Rainbow
Gravity’s Rainbow 4.01 avg rating — 46,900 ratings
6.
Invisible Man
Invisible Man 3.92 avg rating — 198,745 ratings
7.
Lolita
Lolita 3.87 avg rating — 919,317 ratings
8.
Pale Fire
Pale Fire 4.17 avg rating — 55,899 ratings
9.
The Complete Stories
The Complete Stories 4.39 avg rating — 40,392 ratings
10.
Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman 3.58 avg rating — 252,781 ratings
11.
The Recognitions
The Recognitions 4.20 avg rating — 6,164 ratings
12.
White Noise
White Noise 3.86 avg rating — 123,857 ratings
13.
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West 4.16 avg rating — 204,538 ratings
14.
Song of Solomon
Song of Solomon 4.15 avg rating — 123,948 ratings
15.
The Adventures of Augie March
The Adventures of Augie March 3.84 avg rating — 18,693 ratings
16.
The Stories of John Cheever
The Stories of John Cheever 4.26 avg rating — 15,588 ratings
17.
The Executioner's Song
The Executioner's Song 4.05 avg rating — 22,792 ratings
18.
Nine Stories
Nine Stories 4.18 avg rating — 152,921 ratings
19.
A Streetcar Named Desire and Other Plays
A Streetcar Named Desire and Other Plays 4.11 avg rating — 3,236 ratings
20.
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Left Hand of Darkness 4.10 avg rating — 209,498 ratings
21.
Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories 4.41 avg rating — 22,206 ratings
22.
Suttree
Suttree 4.20 avg rating — 27,024 ratings
23.
Portnoy's Complaint
Portnoy's Complaint 3.71 avg rating — 72,176 ratings
24.
The Complete Poems 1927-1979
The Complete Poems 1927-1979 4.20 avg rating — 12,966 ratings
25.
John Berryman: Collected Poems: 1937–1971
John Berryman: Collected Poems: 1937–1971 4.29 avg rating — 408 ratings
26.
The Sheltering Sky
The Sheltering Sky 3.89 avg rating — 30,066 ratings
26.
The Moviegoer
The Moviegoer 3.64 avg rating — 30,281 ratings
28.
The Complete Poems Randall Jarrell
The Complete Poems Randall Jarrell 4.22 avg rating — 230 ratings
29.
Maximus Poems
Maximus Poems 4.19 avg rating — 1,199 ratings
29.
The Crying of Lot 49
The Crying of Lot 49 3.69 avg rating — 93,755 ratings
31.
The Collected Poems of Charles Olson
The Collected Poems of Charles Olson 4.44 avg rating — 162 ratings
31.
Sabbath's Theater
Sabbath's Theater 3.89 avg rating — 11,954 ratings
33.
Collected Poems
Collected Poems 4.28 avg rating — 419 ratings
34.
The Collected Poems of Robert Lowell
The Collected Poems of Robert Lowell 4.08 avg rating — 2,672 ratings
35.
The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke
The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke 4.14 avg rating — 5,069 ratings
36.
Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke 4.28 avg rating — 180 ratings
37.
Permit Me Voyage
Permit Me Voyage 4.09 avg rating — 23 ratings
38.
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men 3.97 avg rating — 3,972 ratings
39.
Selected Poems
Selected Poems 4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings
40.
New & Selected Things Taking Place
New & Selected Things Taking Place 4.22 avg rating — 32 ratings
41.
In Other Words
In Other Words 4.10 avg rating — 30 ratings
42.
Bending the Bow: Poetry
Bending the Bow: Poetry 4.36 avg rating — 192 ratings
43.
New And Collected Poems: A Pulitzer Prize Winner (Harvest Book)
New And Collected Poems: A Pulitzer Prize Winner (Harvest Book) 4.23 avg rating — 271 ratings
44.
Collected Poems 1930-1986
Collected Poems 1930-1986 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
45.
Harlem Gallery
Harlem Gallery 3.57 avg rating — 14 ratings
46.
Seasons on Earth
Seasons on Earth 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
47.
The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara
The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara 4.34 avg rating — 5,635 ratings
48.
Collected Poems
Collected Poems 4.46 avg rating — 367 ratings
49.
The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985
The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985 4.68 avg rating — 677 ratings
50.
Seize the Day
Seize the Day 3.53 avg rating — 13,351 ratings
51.
Bullet Park
Bullet Park 3.75 avg rating — 3,049 ratings
52.
The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories
The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories 3.79 avg rating — 25,468 ratings
53.
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter 3.99 avg rating — 116,851 ratings
54.
The Violent Bear It Away
The Violent Bear It Away 4.07 avg rating — 15,076 ratings
55.
Wise Blood
Wise Blood 3.82 avg rating — 36,565 ratings
56.
Myra Breckinridge/Myron
Myra Breckinridge/Myron 3.69 avg rating — 1,011 ratings
57.
Lincoln
Lincoln 4.25 avg rating — 9,731 ratings
58.
The Long March and In the Clap Shack (2 Books in 1)
The Long March and In the Clap Shack (2 Books in 1) 3.60 avg rating — 63 ratings
59.
Ceremony in Lone Tree
Ceremony in Lone Tree 3.85 avg rating — 61 ratings
60.
The Fixer
The Fixer 3.98 avg rating — 11,822 ratings
61.
The Stories of Bernard Malamud
The Stories of Bernard Malamud 4.10 avg rating — 293 ratings
62.
Advertisements for Myself
Advertisements for Myself 3.56 avg rating — 623 ratings
63.
Ancient Evenings
Ancient Evenings 3.45 avg rating — 2,005 ratings
64.
The Cannibal
The Cannibal 3.80 avg rating — 605 ratings
65.
Second Skin
Second Skin 3.88 avg rating — 504 ratings
66.
Summer and Smoke
Summer and Smoke 3.99 avg rating — 3,261 ratings
67.
Children of Darkness
Children of Darkness 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
68.
Stories in an Almost Classical Mode
Stories in an Almost Classical Mode 3.91 avg rating — 521 ratings
69.
Spanking the Maid
Spanking the Maid 3.62 avg rating — 614 ratings
70.
Libra
Libra 4.05 avg rating — 19,596 ratings
71.
Mao II
Mao II 3.69 avg rating — 12,829 ratings
72.
Running Dog
Running Dog 3.46 avg rating — 2,285 ratings
73.
Little, Big
Little, Big 3.80 avg rating — 12,098 ratings
74.
The Solitudes (The Aegypt Cycle, #1)
The Solitudes (The Aegypt Cycle, #1) 3.84 avg rating — 2,190 ratings
75.
Love & Sleep (The Aegypt Cycle, #2)
Love & Sleep (The Aegypt Cycle, #2) 4.04 avg rating — 880 ratings
76.
Tatlin!
Tatlin! 4.53 avg rating — 58 ratings
77.
The Whole Motion: Collected Poems, 1945–1992
The Whole Motion: Collected Poems, 1945–1992 4.27 avg rating — 142 ratings
78.
The Book of Daniel
The Book of Daniel 3.85 avg rating — 5,846 ratings
79.
World's Fair
World's Fair 3.85 avg rating — 4,865 ratings
80.
Living End
Living End 3.54 avg rating — 668 ratings
81.
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories 3.97 avg rating — 2,816 ratings
82.
Omensetter's Luck
Omensetter's Luck really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,493 ratings
83.
Riddley Walker and the Medusa Frequency
Riddley Walker and the Medusa Frequency 4.02 avg rating — 8,554 ratings
84.
Angels
Angels 3.98 avg rating — 5,630 ratings
85.
Fiskadoro
Fiskadoro 3.54 avg rating — 1,988 ratings
86.
Jesus' Son
Jesus' Son 4.13 avg rating — 39,244 ratings
87.
Child of God
Child of God 3.82 avg rating — 52,925 ratings
88.
Ironweed
Ironweed 3.87 avg rating — 17,432 ratings
89.
Legs
Legs 3.81 avg rating — 1,961 ratings
90.
The Women of Brewster Place
The Women of Brewster Place 4.20 avg rating — 21,533 ratings
91.
Them (Wonderland Quartet, #3)
Them (Wonderland Quartet, #3) 3.71 avg rating — 3,660 ratings
92.
The Little Disturbances of Man
The Little Disturbances of Man 3.95 avg rating — 2,120 ratings
93.
V.
V. 3.97 avg rating — 24,778 ratings
94.
The Messiah of Stockholm
The Messiah of Stockholm 3.53 avg rating — 733 ratings
95.
Mumbo Jumbo: A Novel
Mumbo Jumbo: A Novel 3.85 avg rating — 4,796 ratings
96.
My Life as a Man
My Life as a Man 3.72 avg rating — 2,616 ratings
97.
Philip Roth: Zuckerman Bound A Trilogy and Epilogue 1979-1985
Philip Roth: Zuckerman Bound A Trilogy and Epilogue 1979-1985 4.20 avg rating — 1,372 ratings
98.
The Counterlife
The Counterlife 3.92 avg rating — 5,446 ratings
99.
Patrimony
Patrimony 4.21 avg rating — 6,018 ratings
100.
Operation Shylock
Operation Shylock 3.77 avg rating — 4,965 ratings