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What is the most American book?
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What is the most American book?
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Art Of The Deal
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anything by Jack London
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American Pastoral. It even has "American" in its title.
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Use to be Tom Sawyer or Huck Finn but it's a whole different country now and that shit is hardly a memory or even relevant anymore.
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>>7684158
The Great Gatsby is the dudebro fraternity of literature.
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Moby Dick.
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Red Badge of Courage

The Scarlet Letter
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For my college inquiry class in high school I wrote an eight page essay about how the Catcher in the Rye is the great american novel.
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The Bible.
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The McDonald's Menu.
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>>7684158
The Tunnel by Bill Gass
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not american enough
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10/10
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Kek
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Infinite Jest
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This or American Psycho
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>spooky nighttime fun
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the autobiography of ben franklin
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The most American answer.
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>>7684364
Extremely good answer, better than all the 19th century lit as it actually portrays america as it is now. The Human Stain isn't as good a book but it does a good job as well. I don't think a great novel of the millennial generation and the recession has been written yet.
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>"He was therefore, feasted and invited to all the court parties. At these he sometimes met the old Duchess of Bourbon, who, being a chess player of about his force, they very generally played together. Happening once to put her king into prize, the Doctor took it. 'Ah,' says she, 'we do not take kings so.' 'We do in America,' said the Doctor."

thas gangsta
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