The Great American Novel: a list of personal favourites

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Accordion Crimes
1.  Accordion Crimes by Annie Proulx
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  "Is it THE Great American Novel? A nation summed up in the adventures of a button accordion..."
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Middlesex
2.  Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
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  "Remarkable family drama, which as well as being "about" gender is also very much about Detroit..."
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White Oleander
3.  White Oleander by Janet Fitch
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  "Extremely powerful first novel; quintessentially American tale of survival in the face of dislocation and urban alienation"
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The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Modern Classics)
4.  The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Modern Classics) by Saul Bellow
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  "Definitely Bellow's most entertaining book: a breeze from the Windy City!"
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Wicked
5.  Wicked by Gregory Maguire
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  "The book; the musical; the Great American Myth re-worked... read it and marvel."
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Beloved
6.  Beloved by Toni Morrison
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  "Probably Morrison's greatest novel, & that's saying something ... potentially grim material handled with extraordinary lyricism"
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Rabbit, Run
7.  Rabbit, Run by John Updike
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  "Another tale of alienation: they certainly don't come much more alienated than Rabbit... Updike has never written a finer book."
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The Tenants Of Moonbloom (New York Review Books Classics)
8.  The Tenants Of Moonbloom (New York Review Books Classics) by Edward Lewis Wallant
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  "A heartwarming tale by a near-forgotten genius from the generation of Bellow and Malamud"
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A Thousand Acres
9.  A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
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  "Alienation again, but Rural Alienation... Smiley's subtle and brooding re-working of the King Lear story"
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U.S.a. (Penguin Modern Classics)
10.  U.S.a. (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Dos Passos
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  "Dos Passos' all-singing, all-dancing epic is an experimental classic."
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