American fiction
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Of Mice and Men
Babel-17
As I Lay Dying
The Fixer
The Master Puppeteer
Parable of the Talents
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
The Grapes of Wrath
The optimist's daughter
Midnight's Children
A Farewell to Arms
Advise and Consent
A Canticle for Leibowitz
The Reivers
Foundation's Edge
The View from Saturday
A Wrinkle in Time
Babbitt
Tender is the Night
The Secret Garden
The Great Gatsby
The Call of the Wild
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Wuthering Heights
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
My Ántonia
To Kill a Mockingbird
Quicksand
Gerald's Game
Light in August
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