[MtnClimber]

I would have added:

The Sea Wolf

[Red Badger]

To Kill A Mockingbird.....................

[oldskoolwargamer2]

Not sure where on the list it would fall but I have a hard time believing there are 10 American novels better than All The King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren. I read it every four years (Presidential campaign years) as I think it is the best novel ever written about American politics.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Sometimes a Great Notion deserves a spot on the list, IMO. Maybe Catch-22 as well.

[ArtDodger]

What? Nothing by Harold Robbins?? :/

[Alberta's Child]

Good list, but I would make two changes:

1. The Bonfire of the Vanities doesn't belong anywhere near a list of great American novels. Tom Wolfe made his mark as a non-fiction writer, and this novel reads like a documentary. It didn't take any creativity to write a book that was basically taken from several years worth of 1980s news stories from the NYC tabloids. Wolfe has an interesting, unique writing style, but this book was so predictable that anyone could have written the second half of it.

2. William Faulkner's greatest work is The Sound and the Fury. It belongs on this list in place of Absalom, Absalom!

[HockeyPop]

Far and away the single American novel having the greatest societal impact is “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”.

[chajin]

Things As They Are, William Godwin
Tequila Mockingbird
The Yearling

[Lizavetta]

"Absolom Absolom?" I don't think so.

I've read quite a bit of Faulkner and if you want to read a good Southern gothic murder mystery check out "Intruder in the Dust."

When Faulkner is good he's very good. When he's not he's impenetrable and makes reading a chore, which is not what one wants out of a book.

[bigbob]

That’s ten. Not the ten I would choose.

[Migraine]

Robert Ruark — “The Old Man and the Boy”

[Cautious Optimism]

Although not an easy read but Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand was so prescient.

[OldHarbor]

2 Years Before The Mast by Richard Henry Dana Jr.

[ConservativeDude]

solid list. I’m reading Streets of Laredo rn, and when I’m done with that I’m gonna start at the beginning of the Lonesome Dove tetraology and read all four.

[cdcdawg]

“To put the plot in contemporary context, imagine Donald Trump as the white whale and the Democratic leadership as Captain Ahab. Spoiler alert: the whale wins.”

Got me with that one. I am laughing.

[Lizavetta]

I haven’t read anything by Phillip Roth. What should I know about his works?

[Racketeer]

I still use the word. As a matter of fact I use many words, especially those that have a record of historic use!!

[HockeyPop]

Moby Dick top five. I’d include The Jungle and Walden.

[central_va]

The Godfather deserves a place.

[desertsolitaire]

Where is ‘Silas Marner’?