Is The Great Gatsby the Great American Novel?

[Rev'd Seventy-Six]

I consider the GAN a rosy bucket of balls, however, what's more American
than list-making & prioritizing one's ephemeral possessions & obsessions?
>From my shelf, then-- the books, graphic novels, short stories (& at least
one play) I feel speak most to America:

New York in 1979 by Kathy Acker
The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard & Pheobe Gloeckner
Ah Pook is Here by William S. Burroughs & Malcolm McNeil
Libra by Don DeLillo
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
House of Incest by Anaïs Nin & Val Telberg
Little Murders by Jules Pfeiffer
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Mumbo Jumbo by Ismael Reed
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