One Hundred Best American Novels, 1770 to 1985
This is one of the 743 lists we use to generate our main The Greatest Books list.
About this list
The American Scholar, 100 Books
This list is by David Handlin, posted by The American Scholar, the quarterly literary magazine of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, established as far back as 1932.
David Handlin is an American architect and architectural historian. He presents it as 'A reading enthusiast’s list' but reading the intro
suggests a fair amount of scholarship went into it. It is what you might call a respectable list of the 100 Best American Novels, 1770–1985.
This list was originally published in 2014 and was added to this site about 2 years ago.
