My pick for the 100 American novels I like the most

A wrinkle in time, Madeleine L'Engle

A cold red sunrise, Stuart Kaminski

A confederacy of dunces, John Kennedy Toole

A thousand acres, Anne Smiley

A tree grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith

Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow

All the king's men, Robert Penn Warren

All the pretty horses, Cormac McCarthy

An American tragedy, Theodore Drieser

Animal farm, George Orwell

Anne of green gables

Are you there God, it's me Margaret, Judy Blume

Blood meridian, Cormac McCarthy

Born on the 4th of July, Ron Kovic

Brave new world, Aldous Huxley

Cannery row, John Steinbeck

Catch 22, Joseph Heller

Cider house rules, John Irving

Deliverance, James Dickey

Devil in a blue dress, Walter Mosley

Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Wells

Dune, Frank Herbert

Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions And General Tales of Ordinary Madness, Charles Bukowski

Fear and loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter Thompson

Fear of flying, Erica Jong

Fried green tomatoes at the whistle-stop cafe, Fannie Flagg

From here to eternity, James Jones

Gone with the wind, Margaret Mitchell

Grapes of wrath, John Steinbeck

Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

In cold blood, Truman Capote

Invisible man, Ralph Ellison

Legends of the fall, Jim Harrison

Little house on the prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder

Little women, Louisa May Alcott

Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov

Lonesome dove, Larry McMurtry

Manchild in the promised land,

Moby Dick, Herman Melville

Monkey wrench gang, Edward Abbey

My Antonia, Willa Cather

Mystic river, Dennis Lehane

Neon rain, James Lee Burke

O Pioneers, Willa Cather

On the road, Jack Kerouac

One flew over the cuckoo's nest, Ken Kesey

Peyton place, Grace Metalious

Pillars of the earth, Ken Follett

Portnoy's complaint, Phillip Roth

Prince of tides, Pat Conroy

Rabbit run, John Updike

Ragtime, E L Doctorow

Red badge of courage, Stephen Crane

Riders of the purple sage, Zane Grey

Sea wolf, Jack London

Slaughterhouse-five, Kurt Vonnegut

Snow falling on cedars, David Gutterson

So big, Edna Ferber

Sophie's choice, William Styron

Stranger in a strange land, Robert Heinline

Talking drum, Louis L'Amour

The 13th valley, John M DelVecchio

The andromeda strain, Michael Crichton

The big sleep, Raymond Chandler

The call of the wild, Jack London

The catcher in the rye, J D Salinger

The chosen, Chaim Potok

The color purple, Alice Walker

The confessions of Nat Turner

The dark tower; the gunslinger, Stephen King

The eighth day, Thornton Wilder

The fires of spring, John Michner

The French Lieutenant's woman, John Fowles

The godfather, Mario Puzo

The great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

The heart is a lonely hunter, Carson McCullers

The heart of the matter, Graham Greene

The jungle, Sinclair Lewis

The last coyote, Michael Connelly

The last good kiss, James Crumley

The lonely silver rain, John D McDonald

The magnificent Ambersons, Booth Tarkington

The Maltese falcon

The naked and the dead, Norman Mailer

The Reivers, William Faulkner

The right stuff, Thomas Wolfe

The Sackets, Louis L'Amour

The sound and the fury, William Faulkner

The sun also rises, Ernest Hemingway

The things they carried, Tim O'Brian

The ugly American, Graham Greene

The world according to Garp, John Irving

The yearling, Marjorie Kinnen Rawlings

Their eyes were watching God, Zora Neal Hurston

To have and to have not, Ernest Hemingway

To kill a mockingbird, Harper Lee

Tobacco road, Erskine Caldwell

Tropic of cancer, Henry Miller

USA, John Dos Passos

Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson