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Classic American Novels

Timeless works that shaped American literature

10 books

  1. Cover of The Great Gatsby
    01

    The Great Gatsby

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    The defining novel of the American Dream.

  2. Cover of To Kill a Mockingbird
    02

    To Kill a Mockingbird

    Harper Lee

    A powerful meditation on justice and moral courage.

  3. Cover of Moby-Dick
    03

    Moby-Dick

    Herman Melville

    An epic exploration of obsession and the limits of human will.

  4. Cover of The Catcher in the Rye
    04

    The Catcher in the Rye

    J.D. Salinger

    The quintessential novel of teenage angst and disillusionment.

  5. Cover of The Grapes of Wrath
    05

    The Grapes of Wrath

    John Steinbeck

    Steinbeck's masterpiece of Depression-era America.

  6. Cover of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    06

    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Mark Twain

    Hemingway called it the source of all modern American literature.

  7. Cover of Beloved
    07

    Beloved

    Toni Morrison

    Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning meditation on the legacy of slavery.

  8. Cover of The Sun Also Rises
    08

    The Sun Also Rises

    Ernest Hemingway

    Hemingway's spare prose at its finest.

  9. Cover of The Scarlet Letter
    09

    The Scarlet Letter

    Nathaniel Hawthorne

    America's first great psychological novel.

  10. Cover of East of Eden
    10

    East of Eden

    John Steinbeck

    Steinbeck considered it his magnum opus.

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