The Great Modern American Novelists
Discover The Great Modern American Novelists and their iconic works. Explore a curated list of top American books and authors shaping contemporary literature today.
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Sister Carrie
by Theodore Dreiser
The special centennial edition of this classic novel offers readers a fresh look at this controversial tale. Reissue.
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My Ćntonia
by Willa Cather
The reminiscences of a New York lawyer, Jim Burden, about his boyhood in Nebraska, particularly a young Bohemian girl named Antonia Shimerda, are set against ā¦
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The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
A group of expatriates travel from Paris to the Pamplona bullfights.
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The Great Gatsby
by Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Tells the tragic love story of Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan.
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Light in August
by William Faulkner
From the Nobel Prize winnerāone of the most highly acclaimed writers of the twentieth centuryāa novel set in the American South during Prohibition about hopeful ā¦
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As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner
A true 20th-century classic from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Sound and the Fury: the famed harrowing account of the Bundren familyās odyssey across ā¦
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The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER ā¢ One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century is the story of a family of Southern aristocrats on the brink ā¦
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Absalom, Absalom!
by William Faulkner
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER ā¢ Family drama and the legacy of slavery haunt this epic tale of an enigmatic stranger in Jefferson, Mississippiāfrom one of the ā¦
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Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust
by Nathanael West
Two classic short stories, one about a male reporter who writes an advice column, and the other, about people who have migrated to California in ā¦
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Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER ā¢ NATIONAL BESTSELLER ā¢ In this deeply compelling novel and epic milestone of American literature, a nameless narrator tells his story ā¦
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The Crying of Lot 49
by Thomas Pynchon
Oedipa Maas finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy.
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Gravity's Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon
In the mid-1960s, the publication of Pynchon's V and The Crying of Lot 49 introduced a brilliant new voice to American literature. Gravity's Rainbow, his ā¦
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White Noise
by Don DeLillo
The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libraāan āeerie, brilliant, and touchingā (New York Times) family drama about mass culture and ā¦
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Underworld
by Don DeLillo
A finalist for the National Book Award, Don DeLillo's most powerful and riveting novel--"a great American novel, a masterpiece, a thrilling page-turner" (San Francisco Chronicle)--Underworld ā¦
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Suttree
by Cormac McCarthy
From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prizeāwinning novel The Road, here is the story of Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a ā¦
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Blood Meridian
by Cormac McCarthy
25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION ā¢ From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prizeāwinning novel The Road: an epic novel of the violence and ā¦
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The Border Trilogy
by Cormac McCarthy
From the acclaimed Pulitzer Prizeāwinner and one of America's greatest writers: available together in one volume, the three novels of Cormac McCarthy's award-winning and bestselling ā¦
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Operation Shylock
by Philip Roth
WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD ā¢ From the Pulitzer Prizeāwinning author of American Pastoralāa fiendishly imaginative book that features Israeli intelligence agents, Palestinian exiles, an ā¦
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Sabbath's Theater
by Philip Roth
For the first time in paperback, here is the bold and utterly outrageous new novel of a libidinous 64-year-old curmudgeon by the National Book Award ā¦
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American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER ā¢ NATIONAL BESTSELLER ā¢ From one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth centuryāa compulsively readable elegy for Americaās promises of ā¦
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The Human Stain
by Philip Roth
NATIONAL BESTSELLER ā¢ WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD ā¢ The Pulitzer Prizeāwinning author of American Pastoral delivers āa master novelist's haunting parable about our troubled ā¦
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The Plot Against America
by Philip Roth
In this alternate history, Pulitzer Prize winner Roth considers what it would be like for his Newark family--and for a million such families all over ā¦