The Atlantic’s Great American Novels

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38 participants, 136 books

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An ambitious new project that brings together the most consequential novels of the past 100 years. Focusing on 1924 to 2023, the 136 novels on the list include 45 debut novels, nine winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and three children’s books.

Challenge Books

1

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

2

An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

An American Tragedy

Theodore Dreiser

3

The Making Of Americans, Being A History Of A Family's Progress: Gertrude Stein Collection by Gertrude Stein

The Making Of Americans, Being A History Of A Family's Progress: Gertrude Stein Collection

Gertrude Stein

4

Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

Death Comes for the Archbishop

Willa Cather

5

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

A Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway

6

Passing by Nella Larsen

Passing

Nella Larsen

7

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

The Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner

8

Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

Absalom, Absalom!

William Faulkner

9

Nightwood by Djuna Barnes

Nightwood

Djuna Barnes

10

East Goes West: The Making of an Oriental Yankee by Younghill Kang

East Goes West: The Making of an Oriental Yankee

Younghill Kang

11

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

12

U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money by John Dos Passos

U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money

The U.S.A. Trilogy #1

John Dos Passos