What is "the great American novel"?

[Salmonchaser]

Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn;
Hemingway, For whom the Bell tolls
Jack London, I had read everything by the time I was 8. We didn’t have Tv in Alaska way back then.

 

[brymoore]

The Great Gatsby

 

[Ben Lamb]

Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter

Melville's Moby Dick

Miller's Tropic of Cancer & Big Sur & The Oranges of Hieromymous Bosch (explores post ww2 disenfranchisement that led to the Beat gen)

Burrough's Naked Lunch

And a lot of what Harley said.