The Great Gatsby -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
An American Tragedy -- Theodore Dreiser
The Making of Americans -- Gertrude Stein
Death Comes for the Archbishop -- Willa Cather
A Farewell to Arms -- Ernest Hemingway
The Sound and the Fury -- William Faulkner
Absalom, Absalom! -- William Faulkner
Nightwood -- Djuna Barnes
East Goes West -- Younghill Kang
Their Eyes Were Watching God -- Zora Neale Hurston
U.S.A. -- John Dos Passos
Ask the Dust -- John Fante
The Big Sleep -- Raymond Chandler
The Day of the Locust -- Nathanael West
The Grapes of Wrath -- John Steinbeck
Native Son -- Richard Wright
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter -- Carson McCullers
A Time to Be Born -- Dawn Powell
All the King’s Men -- Robert Penn Warren
In a Lonely Place -- Dorothy B. Hughes
The Mountain Lion -- Jean Stafford
The Catcher in the Rye -- J. D. Salinger
Charlotte’s Web -- E. B. White
Invisible Man -- Ralph Ellison
Fahrenheit 451 -- Ray Bradbury
Maud Martha -- Gwendolyn Brooks
The Adventures of Augie March -- Saul Bellow
e-girlta -- Vladimir Nabokov
Giovanni’s Room -- James Baldwin
Peyton Place -- Grace Metalious
Deep Water -- Patricia Highsmith
On the Road -- Jack Kerouac
The Haunting of Hill House -- Shirley Jackson
Catch-22 -- Joseph Heller
A Wrinkle in Time -- Madeleine L'Engle
Another Country -- James Baldwin
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest -- Ken Kesey
Pale Fire -- Vladimir Nabokov
The Zebra-Striped Hearse -- Ross Macdonald
The Bell Jar -- Sylvia Plath
The Group -- Mary McCarthy
The Crying of Lot 49 -- Thomas Pynchon
A Sport and a Pastime -- James Salter
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- Philip K. Dick
Divorcing -- Susan Taubes
Portnoy’s Complaint -- Philip Roth
Slaughterhouse-Five -- Kurt Vonnegut
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret -- Judy Blume
Desperate Characters -- Paula Fox
Play It as It Lays -- Joan Didion
Log of the S.S. The Mrs Unguentine -- Stanley Crawford
Mumbo Jumbo -- Ishmael Reed
The Revolt of the wienerroach People -- Oscar Zeta Acosta
The Dispossessed -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Winter in the Blood -- James Welch
Corregidora -- Gayl Jones
Speedboat -- Renata Adler
Ceremony -- Leslie Marmon Silko
Song of Solomon -- Toni Morrison
A Contract With God -- Will Eisner
Dancer From the Dance -- Andrew Holleran
The Stand -- Stephen King
Kindred -- Octavia E. Butler
The Dog of the South -- Charles Portis
Housekeeping -- Marilynne Robinson
The Salt Eaters -- Toni Cade Bambara
Little, Big: Or, the Fairies’ Parliament -- John Crowley
Oxherding Tale -- Charles Johnson
Machine Dreams -- Jayne Anne Phillips
Blood Meridian -- Cormac McCarthy
A Summons to Memphis -- Peter Taylor
Watchmen -- Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
Dawn -- Octavia E. Butler
Geek Love -- Katherine Dunn
Tripmaster Monkey -- Maxine Hong Kingston
Dogeaters -- Jessica Hagedorn
American Psycho -- Bret Easton Ellis
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents -- Julia Alvarez
Bastard Out of Carolina -- Dorothy Allison
The Secret History -- Donna Tartt
So Far From God -- Ana Castillo
Stone Butch Blues -- Leslie Feinberg
The Shipping News -- Annie Proulx
Native Speaker -- Chang-rae Lee
Sabbath’s Theater -- Philip Roth
Under the Feet of Jesus -- Helena María Viramontes
Infinite Jest -- David Foster Wallace
I Love Dick -- Chris Kraus
Underworld -- Don DeLillo
The Intuitionist -- Colson Whitehead
Blonde -- Joyce Carol Oates
House of Leaves -- Mark Z. Danielewski
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay -- Michael Chabon
The Last Samurai -- Helen DeWitt
The Quick and the Dead -- Joy Williams
Erasure -- Percival Everett
I, the Divine -- Rabih Alameddine
The Corrections -- Jonathan Franzen
Caramelo -- Sandra Cisneros
Perma Red -- Debra Magpie Earling
The Russian Debutante’s Handbook -- Gary Shteyngart
The Namesake -- Jhumpa Lahiri
Veronica -- Mary Gaitskill
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao -- Junot Díaz
A Visit From the Goon Squad -- Jennifer Egan
I Hotel -- Karen Tei Yamashita
Salvage the Bones -- Jesmyn Ward
The Round House -- Louise Erdrich
Americanah -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi
A Brief History of Seven Killings -- Marlon James
Family Life -- Akhil Sharma
Fates and Furies -- Lauren Groff
The Fifth Season -- N. K. Jemisin
The Sellout -- Paul Beatty
The Sympathizer -- Viet Thanh Nguyen
Amiable With Big Teeth -- Claude McKay
Lincoln in the Bardo -- George Saunders
There There -- Tommy Orange
Lost Children Archive -- Valeria Luiselli
Nothing to See Here -- Kevin Wilson
The Old Drift -- Namwali Serpell
No One Is Talking About This -- Patricia Lockwood
The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois -- Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Biography of X -- Catherine Lacey
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest -- Ken Kesey
Pale Fire -- Vladimir Nabokov
The Zebra-Striped Hearse -- Ross Macdonald
The Bell Jar -- Sylvia Plath
The Group -- Mary McCarthy
The Crying of Lot 49 -- Thomas Pynchon
A Sport and a Pastime -- James Salter
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- Philip K. Dick
Divorcing -- Susan Taubes
Portnoy’s Complaint -- Philip Roth
Slaughterhouse-Five -- Kurt Vonnegut
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret -- Judy Blume
Desperate Characters -- Paula Fox
Play It as It Lays -- Joan Didion
Log of the S.S. The Mrs Unguentine -- Stanley Crawford
Mumbo Jumbo -- Ishmael Reed
The Revolt of the wienerroach People -- Oscar Zeta Acosta
The Dispossessed -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Winter in the Blood -- James Welch
Corregidora -- Gayl Jones
Speedboat -- Renata Adler
Ceremony -- Leslie Marmon Silko
Song of Solomon -- Toni Morrison
A Contract With God -- Will Eisner
Dancer From the Dance -- Andrew Holleran
The Stand -- Stephen King
Kindred -- Octavia E. Butler
The Dog of the South -- Charles Portis
Housekeeping -- Marilynne Robinson
The Salt Eaters -- Toni Cade Bambara
Little, Big: Or, the Fairies’ Parliament -- John Crowley
Oxherding Tale -- Charles Johnson
Machine Dreams -- Jayne Anne Phillips
Blood Meridian -- Cormac McCarthy
A Summons to Memphis -- Peter Taylor
Watchmen -- Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
Dawn -- Octavia E. Butler
Geek Love -- Katherine Dunn
Tripmaster Monkey -- Maxine Hong Kingston
Dogeaters -- Jessica Hagedorn
American Psycho -- Bret Easton Ellis
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents -- Julia Alvarez
Bastard Out of Carolina -- Dorothy Allison
The Secret History -- Donna Tartt
So Far From God -- Ana Castillo
Stone Butch Blues -- Leslie Feinberg
The Shipping News -- Annie Proulx
Native Speaker -- Chang-rae Lee
Sabbath’s Theater -- Philip Roth
Under the Feet of Jesus -- Helena María Viramontes
Infinite Jest -- David Foster Wallace
I Love Dick -- Chris Kraus
Underworld -- Don DeLillo
The Intuitionist -- Colson Whitehead
Blonde -- Joyce Carol Oates
House of Leaves -- Mark Z. Danielewski
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay -- Michael Chabon
The Last Samurai -- Helen DeWitt
The Quick and the Dead -- Joy Williams
The Great Gatsby -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
An American Tragedy -- Theodore Dreiser
The Making of Americans -- Gertrude Stein
Death Comes for the Archbishop -- Willa Cather
A Farewell to Arms -- Ernest Hemingway
The Sound and the Fury -- William Faulkner
Absalom, Absalom! -- William Faulkner
Nightwood -- Djuna Barnes
East Goes West -- Younghill Kang
Their Eyes Were Watching God -- Zora Neale Hurston
U.S.A. -- John Dos Passos
Ask the Dust -- John Fante
The Big Sleep -- Raymond Chandler
The Day of the Locust -- Nathanael West
The Grapes of Wrath -- John Steinbeck
Native Son -- Richard Wright
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter -- Carson McCullers
A Time to Be Born -- Dawn Powell
All the King’s Men -- Robert Penn Warren
In a Lonely Place -- Dorothy B. Hughes
The Mountain Lion -- Jean Stafford
The Catcher in the Rye -- J. D. Salinger
Charlotte’s Web -- E. B. White
Invisible Man -- Ralph Ellison
Fahrenheit 451 -- Ray Bradbury
Maud Martha -- Gwendolyn Brooks
The Adventures of Augie March -- Saul Bellow
e-girlta -- Vladimir Nabokov
Giovanni’s Room -- James Baldwin
Peyton Place -- Grace Metalious
Deep Water -- Patricia Highsmith
On the Road -- Jack Kerouac
The Haunting of Hill House -- Shirley Jackson
Catch-22 -- Joseph Heller
A Wrinkle in Time -- Madeleine L'Engle
Another Country -- James Baldwin
I heard it cucked and bent the knee for diversity points. No surprise there. The Atlantic hasn't been a bastion for quality literature in a while. Sure in the 20th century they published first many famous short stories by many famous authors, some of IQfy's favorites, but they cucked out and bent the knee a long time ago.
>The Atlantic
woke publication. Their opinions hold no merit as surely everything they write and publish is meant to push a globalist agenda against white men. I wouldn't trust anything the Atlantic publishes any more than I would trust an article from Jezebel or Vice.
>three books by Toni Morrison >33% of the titles came out within the past 24 years
This list is indefensibly shit. Even if one were to admit Toni Morrison were a good author, does she really deserve to take up 3% of the total list? No one at The Atlantic said: >hey what if we just picked one Toni Morrison book out of her oeuvre and used the free spaces for other authors?
No. Multiple people at The Atlantic made the choice to have not two, but three different Toni Morrison books, all of which touch on the same exact themes.
And the recent titles are ridiculous. Especially considering one book is from 2023. I bet The Atlantic stands to make some profit off the sales of these recently published books. I wouldn't be surprised if some of those authors work at The Atlantic.
>When you buy a book using a link on this page, we receive a commission. Thank you for supporting The Atlantic.
You figured it out. The Atlantic really should put disclaimer this at the top of the page, not the bottom.
I'm reading the synopses of all these 21st century books, and you know what they all sound like? They sound like the sob stories people use to get the golden buzzer on those awful _____'s Got Talent tv shows. >black teenager living with alcoholic father in the bayou after hurricane Katrina >13 year old's mother is raped on an Indian reservation >Indian family moves to New York and older brother brains himself diving in a swimming pool and becomes a vegetable
I cant wait for this age of victimhood to come to an end. As if no one has anything worth saying unless they have heaps and heaps of misfortune piled up on top of them. So all the NPCs can get together and condencendingly say in a sympathetic voice "oh, you've overcome sooooo much!" and hit the golden buzzer of virtue signaling to make ourselves feel better.
>I cant wait for this age of victimhood to come to an end
This is like saying in 500AD that you can't wait for Constantinople to collapse. This shit is here to stay for a while.
LOL this is the only thing that agents will sign, the only thing that editors will, and the only thing that marketers know how to work with. You could have written that post ten years ago and it's only gotten WORSE since then not better - you're in for a lot more of it
These includes books by non-Americans:
Vladimir Nabokov - Russian
Marlon James - Jamaican
Junot Diaz - Dominican
Chimamda whatever the frick - Nigerian
Akhil Sharma - Indian
Chang-Rae Lee - Korean
Jhumpa Lahiri - British
Valeria Luiselli - Mexican
None of these people were born in the United States. So why include them?
>three books by Toni Morrison >33% of the titles came out within the past 24 years
This list is indefensibly shit. Even if one were to admit Toni Morrison were a good author, does she really deserve to take up 3% of the total list? No one at The Atlantic said: >hey what if we just picked one Toni Morrison book out of her oeuvre and used the free spaces for other authors?
No. Multiple people at The Atlantic made the choice to have not two, but three different Toni Morrison books, all of which touch on the same exact themes.
And the recent titles are ridiculous. Especially considering one book is from 2023. I bet The Atlantic stands to make some profit off the sales of these recently published books. I wouldn't be surprised if some of those authors work at The Atlantic.
>new books that haven't even made a footprint on history yet
This. How can something be considered a great novel if it hasnt influenced any writers?
>A Wrinkle in Time >The Haunting of Hill House >Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep >The Stand >Watchmen >American Psycho >Infinite Jest >House of Leaves
There are lots of titles on this list I disagree with but these titles in particular are just embarassing. Might as well include Harry Fricking Potter or Twilight.
They should get rid of all the sci-fi shite and get some westerns in there
Lonesome Dove
Butcher’s Crossing
Warlock
True Grit
Hombre
Westerns are a million times more American than that autistic sci fi shite
Granted, I'm no novelist or professional literary critic. I read The Call of the Wild twice and the first time I never realized the protagonist was a dog. But I remember The Great Gatsby being so pointless. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, great. The Catcher in the Rye, good. The Great Gatsby; it's just some pointless story about a sulking, self-absorbed rich prick.
Did anyone have a similar impression reading it and have their opinion of it improve after a re-read?
It's a great novel and deserves a place on the list. Most people focus on Gatsby and less on Nick but I think Nick is the most interesting character in the book. He's a self-righteous hypocrite who observes -- with enjoyment, I suspect -- moral decadence like a spectacle. That alone makes him culpable, but he goes further and actively enables Gatsby and Tom and Daisy. Every time I hear preaching and ranting about moral or cultural decay I think of him and wonder, "Well what are you doing about it other than talking about it?"
I was in grade school at the time, had ADD, and probably read through it quickly just to get the points for a Pizza Hut pizza. It's pretty amazing that I was able to pass the 10 question test though.
I did not see a single thing from before like 1920. ""They"" [the Shadow Hand] wish to deracinate modern Americans from their roots because they wish to do away with those roots. A very poor list with far too many women on it (no offense ladies, but I don't need inside your heads for that long).
You mean like you're crying right now, because we don't like your shitty list? Have fun reading 50 shitty books written by women, another 25 written by homosexuals, 15 by anti-American migrants, and the remaining 10 by atheist "thinkers."
I read more than you, homosexual. I just looked at the list. I don't give a shit about the Atlantic or its articles. Either way, my points stand. Shit list.
Ain’t clicking that. Post the list
>durr hurr I'm a lazy moron who can't click a link or has bullshit reasons for not "supporting" websites
The Atlantic caps your "free articles" per month or something. It might be hidden behind a paywall.
I'm pretty sure that was not the anon's motive for complaining, but here is the archived link
https://archive.is/B1Iti
The Great Gatsby -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
An American Tragedy -- Theodore Dreiser
The Making of Americans -- Gertrude Stein
Death Comes for the Archbishop -- Willa Cather
A Farewell to Arms -- Ernest Hemingway
The Sound and the Fury -- William Faulkner
Absalom, Absalom! -- William Faulkner
Nightwood -- Djuna Barnes
East Goes West -- Younghill Kang
Their Eyes Were Watching God -- Zora Neale Hurston
U.S.A. -- John Dos Passos
Ask the Dust -- John Fante
The Big Sleep -- Raymond Chandler
The Day of the Locust -- Nathanael West
The Grapes of Wrath -- John Steinbeck
Native Son -- Richard Wright
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter -- Carson McCullers
A Time to Be Born -- Dawn Powell
All the King’s Men -- Robert Penn Warren
In a Lonely Place -- Dorothy B. Hughes
The Mountain Lion -- Jean Stafford
The Catcher in the Rye -- J. D. Salinger
Charlotte’s Web -- E. B. White
Invisible Man -- Ralph Ellison
Fahrenheit 451 -- Ray Bradbury
Maud Martha -- Gwendolyn Brooks
The Adventures of Augie March -- Saul Bellow
e-girlta -- Vladimir Nabokov
Giovanni’s Room -- James Baldwin
Peyton Place -- Grace Metalious
Deep Water -- Patricia Highsmith
On the Road -- Jack Kerouac
The Haunting of Hill House -- Shirley Jackson
Catch-22 -- Joseph Heller
A Wrinkle in Time -- Madeleine L'Engle
Another Country -- James Baldwin
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest -- Ken Kesey
Pale Fire -- Vladimir Nabokov
The Zebra-Striped Hearse -- Ross Macdonald
The Bell Jar -- Sylvia Plath
The Group -- Mary McCarthy
The Crying of Lot 49 -- Thomas Pynchon
A Sport and a Pastime -- James Salter
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- Philip K. Dick
Divorcing -- Susan Taubes
Portnoy’s Complaint -- Philip Roth
Slaughterhouse-Five -- Kurt Vonnegut
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret -- Judy Blume
Desperate Characters -- Paula Fox
Play It as It Lays -- Joan Didion
Log of the S.S. The Mrs Unguentine -- Stanley Crawford
Mumbo Jumbo -- Ishmael Reed
The Revolt of the wienerroach People -- Oscar Zeta Acosta
The Dispossessed -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Winter in the Blood -- James Welch
Corregidora -- Gayl Jones
Speedboat -- Renata Adler
Ceremony -- Leslie Marmon Silko
Song of Solomon -- Toni Morrison
A Contract With God -- Will Eisner
Dancer From the Dance -- Andrew Holleran
The Stand -- Stephen King
Kindred -- Octavia E. Butler
The Dog of the South -- Charles Portis
Housekeeping -- Marilynne Robinson
The Salt Eaters -- Toni Cade Bambara
Little, Big: Or, the Fairies’ Parliament -- John Crowley
Oxherding Tale -- Charles Johnson
Machine Dreams -- Jayne Anne Phillips
Blood Meridian -- Cormac McCarthy
A Summons to Memphis -- Peter Taylor
Watchmen -- Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
Dawn -- Octavia E. Butler
Geek Love -- Katherine Dunn
Tripmaster Monkey -- Maxine Hong Kingston
Dogeaters -- Jessica Hagedorn
American Psycho -- Bret Easton Ellis
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents -- Julia Alvarez
Bastard Out of Carolina -- Dorothy Allison
The Secret History -- Donna Tartt
So Far From God -- Ana Castillo
Stone Butch Blues -- Leslie Feinberg
The Shipping News -- Annie Proulx
Native Speaker -- Chang-rae Lee
Sabbath’s Theater -- Philip Roth
Under the Feet of Jesus -- Helena María Viramontes
Infinite Jest -- David Foster Wallace
I Love Dick -- Chris Kraus
Underworld -- Don DeLillo
The Intuitionist -- Colson Whitehead
Blonde -- Joyce Carol Oates
House of Leaves -- Mark Z. Danielewski
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay -- Michael Chabon
The Last Samurai -- Helen DeWitt
The Quick and the Dead -- Joy Williams
Erasure -- Percival Everett
I, the Divine -- Rabih Alameddine
The Corrections -- Jonathan Franzen
Caramelo -- Sandra Cisneros
Perma Red -- Debra Magpie Earling
The Russian Debutante’s Handbook -- Gary Shteyngart
The Namesake -- Jhumpa Lahiri
Veronica -- Mary Gaitskill
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao -- Junot Díaz
A Visit From the Goon Squad -- Jennifer Egan
I Hotel -- Karen Tei Yamashita
Salvage the Bones -- Jesmyn Ward
The Round House -- Louise Erdrich
Americanah -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi
A Brief History of Seven Killings -- Marlon James
Family Life -- Akhil Sharma
Fates and Furies -- Lauren Groff
The Fifth Season -- N. K. Jemisin
The Sellout -- Paul Beatty
The Sympathizer -- Viet Thanh Nguyen
Amiable With Big Teeth -- Claude McKay
Lincoln in the Bardo -- George Saunders
There There -- Tommy Orange
Lost Children Archive -- Valeria Luiselli
Nothing to See Here -- Kevin Wilson
The Old Drift -- Namwali Serpell
No One Is Talking About This -- Patricia Lockwood
The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois -- Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Biography of X -- Catherine Lacey
>No Moby Dick
The Atlantic has gone woke
> The Stand -- Stephen King
Bro what? Best books includes horror sloppa? I mean include The Shining if you want some plausible deniability.
>Stone Butch Blues -- Leslie Feinberg
oof
Too much genre fiction shit (including Stephen King lmao). And also fricking comics for some reason. Everything after 2000 is terrible. Bad list.
I heard it cucked and bent the knee for diversity points. No surprise there. The Atlantic hasn't been a bastion for quality literature in a while. Sure in the 20th century they published first many famous short stories by many famous authors, some of IQfy's favorites, but they cucked out and bent the knee a long time ago.
Way too many women
A bong
A Jamaican
Too many colored
You have the depth of a teaspoon and the sophistication of a farmer.
Watchmen
The Stand
NK Jesmin
Really surprised Twilight didn’t make the list
So Charlotte’s Web, Fahrenheit 451 and some bullshit by a Jamaican Black but not Moby Dick? LOL
Yeah I’m not exactly understanding why it only even starts in the 1920s
>The Atlantic
woke publication. Their opinions hold no merit as surely everything they write and publish is meant to push a globalist agenda against white men. I wouldn't trust anything the Atlantic publishes any more than I would trust an article from Jezebel or Vice.
Odd choice for Pynchon Mason and Dixon or Gravity’s Rainbow were more magnum opus than Lot 49
Also odd choice for Updike
Rabbit Run seemed the more likely choice for a list like this
No Naked Lunch or Tropic of Cancer
>three books by Toni Morrison
>33% of the titles came out within the past 24 years
This list is indefensibly shit. Even if one were to admit Toni Morrison were a good author, does she really deserve to take up 3% of the total list? No one at The Atlantic said:
>hey what if we just picked one Toni Morrison book out of her oeuvre and used the free spaces for other authors?
No. Multiple people at The Atlantic made the choice to have not two, but three different Toni Morrison books, all of which touch on the same exact themes.
And the recent titles are ridiculous. Especially considering one book is from 2023. I bet The Atlantic stands to make some profit off the sales of these recently published books. I wouldn't be surprised if some of those authors work at The Atlantic.
>When you buy a book using a link on this page, we receive a commission. Thank you for supporting The Atlantic.
You figured it out. The Atlantic really should put disclaimer this at the top of the page, not the bottom.
I'm reading the synopses of all these 21st century books, and you know what they all sound like? They sound like the sob stories people use to get the golden buzzer on those awful _____'s Got Talent tv shows.
>black teenager living with alcoholic father in the bayou after hurricane Katrina
>13 year old's mother is raped on an Indian reservation
>Indian family moves to New York and older brother brains himself diving in a swimming pool and becomes a vegetable
I cant wait for this age of victimhood to come to an end. As if no one has anything worth saying unless they have heaps and heaps of misfortune piled up on top of them. So all the NPCs can get together and condencendingly say in a sympathetic voice "oh, you've overcome sooooo much!" and hit the golden buzzer of virtue signaling to make ourselves feel better.
>I cant wait for this age of victimhood to come to an end
This is like saying in 500AD that you can't wait for Constantinople to collapse. This shit is here to stay for a while.
LOL this is the only thing that agents will sign, the only thing that editors will, and the only thing that marketers know how to work with. You could have written that post ten years ago and it's only gotten WORSE since then not better - you're in for a lot more of it
These includes books by non-Americans:
Vladimir Nabokov - Russian
Marlon James - Jamaican
Junot Diaz - Dominican
Chimamda whatever the frick - Nigerian
Akhil Sharma - Indian
Chang-Rae Lee - Korean
Jhumpa Lahiri - British
Valeria Luiselli - Mexican
None of these people were born in the United States. So why include them?
Namwali Serpell - Zambian
Viet Thanh Nguyen - Vietnamese
Um, America is a nation of immigrants sweatie.
Oh boy I wonder if this list will be full of women and black people and random new books that haven't even made a footprint on history yet
>new books that haven't even made a footprint on history yet
This. How can something be considered a great novel if it hasnt influenced any writers?
Last I checked Alan Moore was a bong
And a commie homosexual to boot
Junot ‘La Violacion” Diaz made the list
William Gaddis did not
This country needs cleansing
Chimamanda Ooga Booga, a Nigerian, made the list but not Herman Melville.
The list starts at 1923. It wasn't like they were trying their best not to include it.
>A Wrinkle in Time
>The Haunting of Hill House
>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
>The Stand
>Watchmen
>American Psycho
>Infinite Jest
>House of Leaves
There are lots of titles on this list I disagree with but these titles in particular are just embarassing. Might as well include Harry Fricking Potter or Twilight.
>The Haunting of Hill House
Kino, just not GAN material.
Infinite Jest is the (singular) Great American Novel. Develop some taste
jk rolling is australian tho
They should get rid of all the sci-fi shite and get some westerns in there
Lonesome Dove
Butcher’s Crossing
Warlock
True Grit
Hombre
Westerns are a million times more American than that autistic sci fi shite
Confederacy of Dunces did not make the list.
Did the gatekeepers finally realize that Ignatius was a proto IQfyizen?
I dislike The Great Gatsby.
Granted, I'm no novelist or professional literary critic. I read The Call of the Wild twice and the first time I never realized the protagonist was a dog. But I remember The Great Gatsby being so pointless. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, great. The Catcher in the Rye, good. The Great Gatsby; it's just some pointless story about a sulking, self-absorbed rich prick.
Did anyone have a similar impression reading it and have their opinion of it improve after a re-read?
How old are you and what is your life experience?
35 and I don't know. I'll probably die one year before they start offering to upload people onto GPUs.
It's a great novel and deserves a place on the list. Most people focus on Gatsby and less on Nick but I think Nick is the most interesting character in the book. He's a self-righteous hypocrite who observes -- with enjoyment, I suspect -- moral decadence like a spectacle. That alone makes him culpable, but he goes further and actively enables Gatsby and Tom and Daisy. Every time I hear preaching and ranting about moral or cultural decay I think of him and wonder, "Well what are you doing about it other than talking about it?"
>the first time I never realized the protagonist was a dog
It is amazing you are able to post on this website, I want to study you
I was in grade school at the time, had ADD, and probably read through it quickly just to get the points for a Pizza Hut pizza. It's pretty amazing that I was able to pass the 10 question test though.
Any science fiction on the list?
Why are there authors who aren't from the USA?
Because America only exists because of immigration and diversity is our strength you stupid chud
I did not see a single thing from before like 1920. ""They"" [the Shadow Hand] wish to deracinate modern Americans from their roots because they wish to do away with those roots. A very poor list with far too many women on it (no offense ladies, but I don't need inside your heads for that long).
A board full of “readers” can’t even skim an article and retain key information.
gen z might not be able to read very well but they sure can cry about things being "woke"
You mean like you're crying right now, because we don't like your shitty list? Have fun reading 50 shitty books written by women, another 25 written by homosexuals, 15 by anti-American migrants, and the remaining 10 by atheist "thinkers."
Nobody clicked the link
The list is shit
>I’m not an idiot who can’t read an article!
>I’m the idiot who comments after reading only the headline!
Wow you got me.
Did the Atlantic contact Max Lawton regarding this list?
I read more than you, homosexual. I just looked at the list. I don't give a shit about the Atlantic or its articles. Either way, my points stand. Shit list.
Biblioklept's list:
https://biblioklept.org/2024/03/14/an-alternative-list-to-the-atlantics-the-great-american-novels-list-part-i-1924-1974/
https://biblioklept.org/2024/03/15/an-alternative-list-to-the-atlantics-the-great-american-novels-list-part-ii-1975-1999/