F.Scott Fitzgerald wrote better books (or at least a better book) than any other Yank.
Sinclair Lewis books are also good. Babbitt and It Can't Happen Here are my favourites. They also happen to be the only two I've read. Babbitt is really good and has a cool painting on the cover. Or at least my copy does, but it's no first edition.
The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington is a good one. Orson Wells made a movie out of it but I think he died before it was finished.
William Faulkner is just depressing. He sure had a way with the word processor though. There's one part in The Sound and the Fury (I think) and it's from the perspective of a, err, mentally challenged person, and it is so well done it's kind of creepy.
I think any first editions of these books would be some kind of expensive.
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