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Best American BooksRichard Francis' Top 12 American Books



Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter (1850)

Herman Melville

Moby Dick (1851)

Henry James

The Portrait of a Lady (1881)

Mark Twain

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby (1925)

Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises (1926)

William Faulkner

The Sound and the Fury (1929)

J. D. Salinger

The Catcher in the Rye (1951)

Ralph Ellison

Invisible Man (1952)

Cormac McCarthy

Blood Meridian (1985)

Toni Morrison

Beloved (1987)

E. Annie Proulx

Close Range (1999)

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Literature Reference: American Literature, English Literature, Classics & Modern FictionAuthors on FictionUnited States of America: Richard Francis