Top 50 American Books

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  1. 1.
    The Stand
    by Stephen King

  2. 2.
    ?
    Ask the Dust
    by John Fante

  3. 3.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger

  4. 4.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

  5. 5.
    On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by Jack Kerouac

  6. 6.
    ?

  7. 7.
    Songs in Ordinary Time
    by Mary McGarry Morris

  8. 8.
    The Probable Future (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
    by Alice Hoffman

  9. 9.
    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.)
    by Betty Smith

  10. 10.
    Picnic at Hanging Rock
    by Joan Lindsay

  11. 11.
    ?
    It - Stephen King

  12. 12.
    In Cold Blood
    by Truman Capote

  13. 13.
    ?
    LIGHT IN AUGUST
    by William Faulkner

  14. 14.
    Summer of Night (Aspect Fantasy)
    by Dan Simmons

  15. 15.
    ?
    Manhattan Transfer
    by John Dos Passos

  16. 16.
    'Salem's Lot, Illustrated Edition
    by Stephen King

  17. 17.
    TENDER IS THE NIGHT
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  18. 18.
    Franny and Zooey
    by J. D. Salinger

  19. 19.
    Gone With the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell

  20. 20.
    Rosemary's Baby
    by Ira Levin

  21. 21.

  22. 22.
    Misfits
    by Arthur Miller

  23. 23.
    Desperation
    by Stephen King

  24. 24.

  25. 25.
    White Horses
    by Alice Hoffman

  26. 26.
    Martin Eden
    by Jack London

  27. 27.
    The Pursuit of Happiness
    by Douglas Kennedy

  28. 28.
    Cavedweller: A Novel
    by Dorothy Allison

  29. 29.
    The Time Traveler's Wife
    by Audrey Niffenegger

  30. 30.
    The Bell Jar
    by Sylvia Plath

  31. 31.
    H. P. Lovecraft: Tales (Library of America)
    by H. P. Lovecraft

  32. 32.
    ?
    The Wine of Youth: Selected Stories
    by John Fante

  33. 33.
    Lonesome Traveller
    by Jack Kerouac

  34. 34.
    The Beatles Anthology
    by Beatles

  35. 35.
    Journals
    by Kurt Cobain

  36. 36.
    The Jungle
    by Upton Sinclair

  37. 37.
    Dandelion Wine
    by Ray Bradbury

  38. 38.
    Rabbit Novels Vol. 1
    by John Updike

  39. 40.
    The Dive From Clausen's Pier: A Novel
    by Ann Packer

  40. 41.
    How the Light Gets In
    by M.J. Hyland

  41. 42.
    The Road to Los Angeles
    by John Fante

  42. 43.
    Carrie
    by Stephen King

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  44. 45.
    Marcovaldo: or the Seasons in the City
    by Italo Calvino

  45. 47.
    Absence of Nectar
    by Kathy Hepinstall

  46. 48.
    The Secret History
    by Donna Tartt

  47. 49.
    The Laments: A Novel
    by George Hagen

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Created by Nathalie on Jun 05, 2007.
 

Comments

bah

Untitled — 3 years ago

What a weird list! Some of these aren’t even American: Picnic at Hanging Rock is Australian, and Italo Calvino was Italian.


Untitled — 4 years ago

Perhaps I am too ignorant, but what is the significance of Marco Valdo being in the list?


Untitled — 4 years ago

Where did this list come from? Is it definitive or personal?




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