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The best American books
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
3.9
11 min
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin
3.9
14 min
Mark Twain
The Prince and the Pauper
3.9
10 min
Herman Melville
Bartleby, the Scrivener
3.9
15 min
Nathaniel Philbrick
Mayflower
3.9
15 min
James Shapiro
Shakespeare in a Divided America
4.1
24 min
Ron DeSantis
The Courage to Be Free
4
12 min
J.D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
3.8
11 min
Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
3.8
14 min
Bret Easton Ellis
American Psycho
3.8
14 min
Jonathan Franzen
The Corrections
3.8
14 min
Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady
3.8
17 min
H. W. Brands
Reagan
4.1
18 min
Sven Beckert
Empire of Cotton
3.9
19 min
Jeff Haden
The Motivation Myth
3.8
11 min
William Faulkner
As I Lay Dying
3.7
5 min
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Young Goodman Brown
3.7
9 min
Jonathan Allen
Shattered
3.7
13 min
Bhu Srinivasan
Americana
4.4
23 min
Dinesh D’Souza
The Big Lie
4.2
12 min
Herman Melville
Moby Dick
3.6
16 min
Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman
3.6
12 min
Michael Wolff
Siege
3.6
22 min
Matthew Yglesias
One Billion Americans
3.9
14 min
Victor Davis Hanson
The Case for Trump
4.2
10 min
Julian E. Zelizer
Myth America
3.9
13 min
Scott Galloway
Adrift
3.9
9 min
Richard Haass
A World in Disarray
3.8
12 min
Mike Pompeo
Never Give an Inch
4.3
14 min
Stephen Vladeck
The Shadow Docket
4.2
12 min