Great American Novel
Explore the definitive list of the Great American Novel contenders, featuring timeless classics and modern masterpieces that define U.S. literature. Discover must-read books that capture the American spirit.
Cover Sourced by ISBN
ID: 1402726007
(Book - Data not in DB)
Cover Sourced by ISBN
ID: 1404315608
(Book - Data not in DB)
Book
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
During the seventeenth century in Boston, a woman guilty of adultery is forced to wear an A as a visible sign of her sin.
Book
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A mysterious American millionaire tries to recapture the sweetheart of his youth, which results in tragedy.
Book
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century is the story of a family of Southern aristocrats on the brink …
Book
Moby-Dick
by Herman Melville
Herman Melville’s masterpiece of obsession and the untamed sea, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history—featuring an introduction by Andrew Delbanco and …
Book
The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
J.D. Salinger's classic of adolescent angst is now available for the first time in trade paperback. Holden Caulfield, knowing he is to be expelled from …
Book
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers. One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the …
Book
On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
Chronicles the way of life of the beat generation as Dean Moriarty speeds across America.
Cover Sourced by ISBN
ID: 0844663662
(Book - Data not in DB)
Book
All the King's Men
by Robert Penn Warren
Character study of a Southern demagogue whose career follows in some respects as that of Huey Long.
Book
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
The story of a bombardier in World War II who is frantic and angry because thousands of people he does not know are trying to …