Best American Novels of All-Time

The Top Ten
1 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

I will read this for Easter.

2 The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger

American teens nowadays are angry, confused, and alienated

3 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
4 The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
5 The Great Gatsby - ‎F. Scott Fitzgerald
6 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

The quintessential great American novel

7 The Colossus of Maroussi - Henry Miller
8 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
9 Independence Day - Richard Ford
10 Little House on the Prairie - Laura Ingalls Wilder

Great historical novel about our forefathers the pioneers who braved the vast unknown

The Contenders
11 Mr. Popper's Penguins - Richard and Florence Atwater

A cute story about penguins

12 Curious George - Margret and H.A. Rey
13 Charlotte's Web - E. B. White

Just as timeless as the movie

14 Amelia Bedelia - Peggy Parish
15 Hatchet - Gary Paulsen

Awesome adventure novel about manhood and survival

16 Madeline - Ludwig Bemelmans
17 Little Bear - Else Holmelund Minarik
18 The Berenstain Bears’ New Baby - Stan and Jan Berenstain
19 Frog and Toad are Friends - Arnold Lobel
20 Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
21 The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
22 Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson

It really hits you hard

23 A Wrinkle In Time - Madeleine L'Engle
24 Ramona Quimby, Age 8 - Beverly Cleary
25 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain

A classic of Southern American literature

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