The Atlantic Publishes "The Great American Novels," a New List of the Most Consequential Novels of the Past 100 Years
The Atlantic
Today The Atlantic launches "The Great American Novels," an ambitious new project that brings together the most consequential novels of the past 100 years. Focusing on 1924 to 2023--a period that began as literary modernism was cresting and includes all manner of literary possibility, including the experimentations of postmodernism and the narrative satisfactions of genre fiction--the 136 novels on the list include 45 debut novels, nine winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and three childre...