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Listed below are the top 100 titles for the American literature classroom, ranked in order of popularity, chosen by American literature teachers from across the country. |
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| 1. | The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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| 2. | The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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| 3. | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain |
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| 4. | Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck |
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| 5. | To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee |
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| 6. | The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger |
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| 7. | The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck |
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| 8. | Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston |
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| 9. | The Crucible Arthur Miller |
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| 10. | The Things They Carried Tim O’Brien |
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| 11. | The Awakening Kate Chopin |
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| 12. | Ethan Frome Edith Wharton |
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| 13. | Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury |
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| 14. | A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry |
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| 15. | The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane |
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| 16. | The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros |
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| 17. | The Jungle Upton Sinclair |
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| 18. | A Separate Peace John Knowles |
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| 19. | The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway |
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| 20. | Anthem Ayn Rand |
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| 21. | The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway |
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| 22. | As I Lay Dying William Faulkner |
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| 23. | The Color Purple Alice Walker |
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| 24. | A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway |
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| 25. | The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd |
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| 26. | Invisible Man Ralph Ellison |
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| 27. | Native Son (abridged) Richard Wright |
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| 28. | My Antonia Willa Cather |
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| 29. | Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Frederick Douglass |
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| 30. | Beloved Toni Morrison |
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| 31. | Hiroshima John Hersey |
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| 32. | Moby Dick Herman Melville |
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| 33. | One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Ken Kesey |
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| 34. | Black Boy Richard Wright |
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| 35. | Bless Me, Ultima Rudolfo Anaya |
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| 36. | Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller |
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| 37. | In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences Truman Capote |
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| 38. | A Lesson Before Dying Ernest J. Gaines |
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| 39. | Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut Jr. |
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| 40. | The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver |
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| 41. | The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison |
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| 42. | The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner |
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| 43. | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain |
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| 44. | Catch-22 Joseph Heller |
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| 45. | The Chosen Chaim Potok |
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| 46. | East of Eden John Steinbeck |
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| 47. | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou |
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| 48. | Walden and Other Writings Henry David Thoreau |
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| 49. | The Bean Trees Barbara Kingsolver |
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| 50. | Billy Budd Herman Melville |