10 Must-Read Books by American Authors

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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)

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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)

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Moby Dick by Herman Melville (1851)

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884)

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The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939)

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Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952)

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Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)

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The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)

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Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)

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The Road by Cormac McCarthy (2006)

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