Read any Good Books Lately? The 100 Greatest American Novels, 1894 – 1994

The list, by year:

• The Country of Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett (1896)
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin (1899)
• The Call of the Wild by Jack London (1903)
• The Golden Bowl by Henry James (1904)
• The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (1905)
• The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (1906)
• Three Lives by Gertrude Stein (1909)
• My Antonia by Willa Cather (1918)
• The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (1918)
• Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson (1919)
• Main Street by Sinclair Lewis (1920)
• Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man by James Weldon Johnson (1921)
• Cane by Jean Toomer (1923)
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
• An American Tragedy by Theodore Dresier (1925)
• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (1926)
• The Bridge of the San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (1927)
• Home to Harlem by Claude McKay (1928)
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (1929)
• Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe (1929)
• The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (1930)
• Flowering Judas and Other Stories by Katherine Porter (1930)
• The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (1931)
• Call It Sleep by Henry Roth (1934)
• The Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (1934)
• Appointment in Samarra by John O’Hara (1934)
• The USA Trilogy by John Dos Passos (1936)
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1936)
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)
• Day of the Locust by Nathaniel West (1939)
• The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (1939)
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939)
• Native Son by Richard Wright (1940)
• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers (1940)
• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (1943)
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (1943)
• All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren (1946)
• Tales of the South Pacific by James Michener (1947)
• The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer (1948)
• The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles (1948)
• The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson (1949)
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (1951)
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952)
• Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin (1953)
• The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow (1953)
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953)
• Andersonville by MacKinley Kantor (1955)
• On the Road by Jack Keroauc (1957)
• Gimpel the Fool by Isaac Bashevis Singer  (1957)
• The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever (1957)
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1958)
• The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud (1958)
• Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth (1959)
• Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs (1959)
• The Little Disturbances of Man by Grace Paley (1959)
• Browngirl, Brownstones by Paule Marshall (1959)
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)
• Rabbit, Run by John Updike (1960)
• The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth (1960)
• The Moviegoer by Walker Percy (1961)
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961)
• Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates (1961)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey (1962)
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1963)
• Stoner by John Williams (1965)
• A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter (1967)
• The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron (1967)
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? By Philip K. Dick (1968)
• Slaughterhouse-5 by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
• House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday (1969)
• them by Joyce Carol Oates (1969)
• The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford (1969)
• Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion (1970)
• The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor (1971)
• Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed (1972)
• Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (1972)
• Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1973)
• Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow (1975)
• JR by William Gaddis (1976)
• Roots by Alex Haley (1976)
• Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko (1977)
• The World According to Garp by John Irving (1978)
• Airships by Barry Hannah (1978)
• Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (1980)
• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (1980)
• The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty (1982)
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1982)
• Cathedral by Raymond Carver (1983)
• Love Medicine by Lousie Erdrich (1984)
• Neuromancer by William Gibson (1984)
• White Noise by Don Delillo (1985)
• Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (1985)
• Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (1985)
• City of Glass by Paul Auster (1985)
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (1989)
• The Shawl  by Cynthia Ozick (1989)
• The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien (1990)
• How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez (1991)
• Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison (1992)

 Source: BookRiot

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