Best American Novels of all time

1.     The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe (1833)

2.     The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)

3.     Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851)

4.     Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)

5.     Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1854)

6.     Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs (1861)

7.     The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (1876)

8.     The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (1881)

9.     The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884)

10.  The Awakening by Kate Chopin (1899)

11.  How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis (1890)

12.  The Call of the by Jack London (1903)

13.  The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (1905)

14.  The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (1906)

15.  The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald (1925)

16.  The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (1926)

17.  Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (1937)

18.  Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)

19.  The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939)

20.  The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers (1940)

21.  For Whom the Bell by Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (1940)

22.  A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (1943)

23.  The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller (1941)

24.  The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger (1951)

25.  Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952)

26.  Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953)

27.  The Crucible by Arthur Miller (1953)

28.  On the Road by Jack Kerouac (1957)

29.  Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (1957)

30.  Rabbit, Run by John Updike (1960)

31.  To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)

32.  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (1969)

33.  Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson (1971)

34.  The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1982)

35.  Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)

36.  All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (1992)