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100 Best American Authors. American authors that write about the American experience. flag. All Votes Add Books To This List. ← Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next →. 758 books · 614 voters · list created July 4th, 2009 by Bluedaizy (votes) .
Showing 1-50 of 668. The Great Gatsby (Paperback) by. F. Scott Fitzgerald. (shelved 27 times as classic-american-literature) avg rating 3.93 — 5,281,168 ratings — published 1925. Want to Read. Rate this book. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback) by. Harper Lee.
Nov 19, 2020 · Great American Novels. Image: Ryan MacEachern/Penguin. The Great American Novel is, without a whisper of doubt, literature's most elusive (some even say mythical) beast. For 150 years, since the novelist John William De Forest first coined the term, the argument over what constitutes a GAN has rumbled on and on.
The 631st Greatest Book of All Time. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway. Set during World War I, the novel follows an American ambulance driver in the Italian army and his love affair with a British nurse. The story is a first-person account of the protagonist's experiences in war and his struggle to survive amidst chaos and destruction.
All the books on the list "The 100 Greatest American Novels, 1893 – 1993" from Jeff O'Neal at Bookriot.com. The 100 greatest american novels picked by Jeff O’Neal, Editor-in-Chief & Co-founder of Bookriot.com
May 8, 2024 · Claude McKay. Contemporary Period (1945 to present) Ralph Ellison. James Baldwin. Ursula Le Guin. Toni Morrison. David Foster Wallace. N. Scott Momaday. Ha Jin. Junot Díaz. Sylvia Plath. The Best 20th-Century American Novels, recommended by David Hering.
Mar 14, 2024 · The Great American Novels - The Atlantic. March 14, 2024. In 1868, a little-known writer by the name of John William DeForest proposed a new type of literature, a collective artistic project...
