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Anonymous
03/26/26(Thu)23:50:04 No.25168421
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Anonymous 03/26/26(Thu)23:50:04 No.25168421
What are the most quintessentially American books out there?
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Anonymous
03/26/26(Thu)23:51:43 No.25168425
Anonymous 03/26/26(Thu)23:51:43 No.25168425
Samuel R Delany, HOGG
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Anonymous
03/26/26(Thu)23:55:41 No.25168430
Anonymous 03/26/26(Thu)23:55:41 No.25168430
Rule of the Bone
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Anonymous
03/27/26(Fri)00:18:01 No.25168447
Anonymous 03/27/26(Fri)00:18:01 No.25168447
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>>25168421
Americans have an entire genre that is quintessentially their own - the Western.
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Anonymous
03/27/26(Fri)07:13:30 No.25168991
Anonymous 03/27/26(Fri)07:13:30 No.25168991
>>25168421
Easily Moby Dick. Violent man that has a confusing revenge fantasy against a cheap source of oil.
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Anonymous
03/27/26(Fri)07:19:36 No.25168998
Anonymous 03/27/26(Fri)07:19:36 No.25168998
Wind and Truth
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Anonymous
03/27/26(Fri)22:55:27 No.25170973
Anonymous 03/27/26(Fri)22:55:27 No.25170973
>>25168421
i would say anything by steinbeck

>>25168991
this could've been written by a brit
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Anonymous
03/27/26(Fri)22:59:00 No.25170982
Anonymous 03/27/26(Fri)22:59:00 No.25170982
>>25168447
It's shared with Mexico, Canada, and Australia.
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Anonymous
03/27/26(Fri)23:04:41 No.25170993
Anonymous 03/27/26(Fri)23:04:41 No.25170993
>>25168421
Huckleberry Finn is as American as it gets
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Anonymous
03/27/26(Fri)23:05:14 No.25170995
Anonymous 03/27/26(Fri)23:05:14 No.25170995
>>25168421
>Most American book
Hunger Games
>Most accurate description of an American
Confederacy of Dunces
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Anonymous
03/27/26(Fri)23:09:37 No.25171006
Anonymous 03/27/26(Fri)23:09:37 No.25171006
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the book where greatest American book and most quintessentially American book overlap
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Anonymous
03/27/26(Fri)23:11:06 No.25171011
Anonymous 03/27/26(Fri)23:11:06 No.25171011
>>25168430
rare shoutout, great book
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Anonymous
03/28/26(Sat)00:09:29 No.25171159
Anonymous 03/28/26(Sat)00:09:29 No.25171159
>>25170982
You don't know what quintessential means, do you?
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