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Items tagged as American Literature

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Book, added September 26, 2025
Gilead (2004)
by Marilynne Robinson
American Literature Literary Fiction Pulitzer Prize
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Collection, added September 21, 2025
The Things They Carried (1990)
by Tim O'Brien
American Literature Literary Fiction Memoir Pulitzer Prize Finalist Short Stories Vietnam War
Note September 21, 2025

I can't recall how Tinkers, by Paul Harding ended up in my reading list or why I skipped ahead of other books to read it but I'm glad I did. Possibly, it was the beautiful cover that hooked me.

What a hammer-drop of prose virtuosity. Completely arresting. Some books appeal because the subtle beauty of finely crafted sentences seeps in through your skin. The writing in this book is an injection into your carotid artery.

American Literature Literary Fiction Pulitzer Prize
Tim O'Brien
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Tim O'Brien
American (US) • b. October 1, 1946
American Literature Memoir Vietnam War
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Book, read August 31, 2025
Train Dreams (2002)
by Denis Johnson
American Literature Literary Fiction Top Pick
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Book, added August 20, 2025
The Dying Grass: A Novel of the Nez Perce War (2016)
by William T. Vollmann
American Literature Literary Fiction
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Ebook, read August 9, 2025
Slaughterhouse Five: or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death (1969)
by Kurt Vonnegut
American Literature Ebook Science Fiction World War II
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Book, read August 6, 2025
The Great Gatsby (1925)
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
American Literature Literary Fiction Top Pick
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Book, read June 23, 2025
Moby Dick: or, The Whale (1851)
by Herman Melville
American Literature Classic Literature Literary Fiction Top Pick
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Book, read June 8, 2025
The Crying of Lot 49 (1965)
by Thomas Pynchon
American Literature Literary Fiction
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Book, read May 30, 2025
The Scarlet Letter: A Romance (1850)
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
American Literature Classic Literature Literary Fiction Top Pick
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Play, read February 7, 2025
Death of a Salesman (1949)
by Arthur Miller
American Literature Stageplay
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Book, read August 25, 2024
East of Eden (1952)
by John Steinbeck
American Literature Literary Fiction Top Pick
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Book, read April 9, 2024
Stoner (1965)
by John Edward Williams
American Literature Top Pick
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Book, read April 25, 2021
The Overstory (2018)
by Richard Powers
American Literature Pulitzer Prize
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Book, read April 7, 2021
Dancing at the Rascal Fair (1987)
by Ivan Doig
American Literature
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Book, read March 31, 2021
Angle of Repose (1971)
by Wallace Stegner
American Literature Top Pick
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Book, read March 16, 2021
The Phantom Tollbooth (1961)
by Norton Juster
American Literature Children's Classic Literature
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