Okay, so after many helpful suggestions, here is my almost final, almost official list of Great American Books for the fall semester:
Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
Melville: Moby Dick
West: The Day of the Locust
Heller: Catch-22
Malamud: The Natural
Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury
Morrison: Beloved
Doctorow: Ragtime
Hijuelos: Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
Roth: American Pastoral
Still thinking about:
Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Roth (Henry): Call It Sleep
I just realized, however, that there is only one female author on this list. Is that a problem? It might very well be. I'm a pathetic excuse for a feminist.
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Britton's right about the Jewett novel, especially if you keep _The Scarlet Letter_, which was one of Jewett's favorite novels... But you'll never get me to vote against _Moby-Dick_.
My students loved Cather's _Death Comes for the Archbishop_.
It's an interesting dilemma: with only 8 books, can we really take the time to worry about quotas and equal representation? I think the general feeling is, yep.
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