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I feel like Philip Roth should be on here, but not sure what book. Also Cormac McCarthy. Are we calling Nabokov American? And I love Charlotte's Web, but I don't think it can properly be called a novel.

Other ideas: DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Helprin, Norman Mailer.

I would take Nabokov as an American novelist, as he became a citizen in 1945.

I just vote for the novels I really like.

I had to remove "The Little Friend" as it was published in 2002.

Only the fact that it's a children's or YA book, and I take the term "novel" to be something different, aimed at an older audience. If we were taking a college course on "the novel," a YA book wouldn't be on the curriculum. I'm not saying CW isn't a lovely, near-perfect book.

Removed for not being published in the 20th century:

Empire Falls, by Richard Russo (2001)

I will finish most of them.

Removed, for not being first published in the 20th century:

Isn't It Pretty To Think So? (2012)

I'm surprised that "And Ladies of the Club" isn't here.

You could add it.

The Rhum Diary is pretty good, nearly as good as The Sun Also Rises and The Moveable Feast. I would have Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas too, though I can understand if there's reluctance. Ask the Dust, up there too. Basketball Diaries. Off the top of my head. Anything Mark Twain might have written between 1900 and 1910?

The Goldfinch- Donna Tartt
Flight Behavior- Barbara Kingsolver
Should be in top 20.

Susanna - Censored by GoodReads wrote: "I would take Nabokov as an American novelist, as he became a citizen in 1945.

I just vote for the novels I really like."

Makes sense. Also, Lolita was included in a course I took on the American novel at Yale, so I'd say there's a scholarly consensus that his works are American.

Lobstergirl wrote: "Only the fact that it's a children's or YA book, and I take the term "novel" to be something different, aimed at an older audience. If we were taking a college course on "the novel," a YA book woul..."

I don't think intended audience has any bearing on whether or not something is a novel. Just my two cents :)

Death in the Afternoon by Hemingway is nonfiction, and therefore not a novel. It should be removed.

Do you remember where on the list you saw it? (Makes it a lot easier to remove.)

Susanna - Censored by GoodReads wrote: "Do you remember where on the list you saw it? (Makes it a lot easier to remove.)"

#91

Removed, as is The Woman Warrior (also non-fiction).

Please remove How to Buy, Sell and Make a Fortune on eBay - Make Money Online From Home on eBay.
This user keeps spamming lists with his crappy book

Kinga wrote: "Please remove How to Buy, Sell and Make a Fortune on eBay - Make Money Online From Home on eBay.
This user keeps spamming lists with his crappy book"

Done. (Next time, do mention the number you noticed a book on)

Yep, it's very handy; makes things a lot easier for the librarian removing the book.

#263. Watership Down is British, not American.
#30. The Road is 2006, not 20th century.