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Great writers are also great readers, which is why we trust them to give the best book recommendations. To celebrate 250 years of storytelling, we asked some of our favorite authors to share what they consider The Great American Novel, and they came up with a wide range of essential books that capture the spirit of American literature through powerful storytelling and unforgettable characters.

Check out must-read recommendations from Ann Patchett, James Patterson, Min Jin Lee, Matt Dinniman, Stephen Graham Jones, William Kent Kreuger and many more.
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Buckeye | This is a glorious sweep of a novel, full of love and war and the perilous intimacies of small-town life. — Ann Patchett, Whistler
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay | [This novel] still thrills me every time I reread it. More than that: it inspires me to make art out of my enthusiasms, poetry out of my fancies, in other words: to write from the best of me. — Andrew Sean Greer, Villa Coco
1919 (USA complete trilogy) | [1919] captures for me the ever-yearning hope and struggle of our American story. — Chang-rae Lee
The Great Gatsby | Fitzgerald is speaking both of the specificity of the American experience and the universality of the human capacity for hope. — Chris Bohjalian, The Amateur
The Last Novel | The final installment in [Markson]’s heartbreaking, hilarious, haunting Notecard Quartet… There are few books that I return to as often as these. — Hernan Diaz, Ply
House of Mirth | Wharton critiques the political, economic, and cultural systems which prohibit our heroine’s choices in our nation of gorgeous promises. — Min Jin Lee, American Hagwon
Love Medicine | Who am I in it? Where do I fit in? The best novels leave us asking that question. <em>Love Medicine</em> is, to me, the best of all novels. — Stephen Graham Jones, Off the Reservation
Beloved | That is the power of historical literature—to create people we care about plucked from history to serve as our personal witnesses and help us feel the lessons of the past. — Tananarive Due, Mazywood
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