great American novel

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

I know we're not doing desert island lists, but given a chance to say
teach a survey class, I'd want to use --


Parables for Paranoids:

Moby Dick, Herman Melville
Letters from Earth, Mark Twain
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
Catch 22, Joseph Heller
The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me, Richard Farina
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
A Scanner Darkly, Philip K. Dick
Straight Man, Richard Russo
Mason & Dixon, Thomas Pynchon