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Martin Eden
Jack London
4.48 average rating, · 58k ratings
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100 Selected Poems
E.E. Cummings
4.28 average rating, · 29.5k ratings
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Ask the Dust
John Fante
4.10 average rating, · 40.5k ratings
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Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
Raymond Carver
4.19 average rating, · 20k ratings
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Selected Poems
William Carlos Williams
4.17 average rating, · 15.1k ratings
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Wait Until Spring, Bandini
John Fante
4.10 average rating, · 15k ratings
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A Coney Island of the Mind
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
4.16 average rating, · 12.4k ratings
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Spoon River Anthology
Edgar Lee Masters
4.01 average rating, · 14.5k ratings
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The Short Stories
Ernest Hemingway
4.15 average rating, · 11.7k ratings
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The Tie That Binds
Kent Haruf
4.11 average rating, · 10.6k ratings
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The Easter Parade
Richard Yates
4.03 average rating, · 11.1k ratings
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Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame
Charles Bukowski
4.04 average rating, · 9.7k ratings
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The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake
Breece D'J Pancake
4.15 average rating, · 7k ratings
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The Dream Songs
John Berryman
4.20 average rating, · 6.9k ratings
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Short Cuts: Selected Stories
Raymond Carver
4.10 average rating, · 7.2k ratings
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Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
Richard Yates
4.03 average rating, · 7.4k ratings
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The Brotherhood of the Grape
John Fante
4.16 average rating, · 6.6k ratings
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The Collected Poems, Vol. 1: 1909-1939
William Carlos Williams
4.20 average rating, · 6.2k ratings
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Water Music
T. Coraghessan Boyle
4.19 average rating, · 5.6k ratings
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Dreams from Bunker Hill
John Fante
4.07 average rating, · 6k ratings
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The Swimmer
John Cheever
4.03 average rating, · 5.9k ratings
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The Collected Poems
Theodore Roethke
4.14 average rating, · 5.1k ratings
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Revenge of the Lawn: Stories 1962-1970
Richard Brautigan
4.09 average rating, · 4.8k ratings
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Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
John Ashbery
4.07 average rating, · 4.8k ratings
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