The GREAT American NOVELS: 136 Great American Novels from the last 100 Years
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My criteria is a novel published in the 20th century or at least 20 years ago. No author on the Atlantic’s list can be on my list.

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (1930)
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain (1934)
Call It Sleep by Henry Roth (1934)
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo (1938)
Earth Abides by George R. Stewart (1949)
The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren (1949)
Butcher's Crossing by John Williams (1960)
Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey (1964)
In Cold Blood by Trueman Capote (1966)
Deliverance by James Dickey (1970)
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (1971)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vagas by Hunter S. Thompson (1971)
52 Pick Up by Elmore Leonard (1972)
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany (1975)
JR by William Gaddis (1976)
Sophie's Choice by William Stryon (1979)
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (1981)
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (1989)
Maus I & II by Art Spiegelman (1991)
Fathers and Crows by William T. Vollmann (1992)

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