Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
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40 books — 19 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Major Award-Winning Fiction Since 1990
248 books — 566 voters
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
Best Southern Gothic Literature
332 books — 488 voters

Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
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Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
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123 books — 114 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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165 books — 109 voters

Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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577 books — 762 voters

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Postmodern Genius
506 books — 582 voters
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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37 books — 632 voters

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87 books — 406 voters
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
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19 books — 26 voters
Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
Ranking the works of Thomas Pynchon
9 books — 261 voters