Recs if you like The Making of Americans...

Based on the list/book published in 2006, general editor Peter Boxall.

This is the list from The Atlantic. "In 1868, a little-known writer by the name of John William DeForest proposed a new type of literature, a collective artistic project for a nation just emerging from an existential conflict: a work of fiction that accomplished “the task of painting the American soul.” It would be called the Great American Novel, and no one had written it yet, DeForest admitted. Maybe soon."

The books written by female American authors during the infamous Lost Generation literary movement in the 1920s (-ish, we may veer a little bit to 1910s and 1930s) Europe. Mostly Paris centred, but again, I think some other works ar worth while too and might be written somewhere else. Some works will be written during the lost generations and others are more reflective of the time and written later. A companion and new perspectives on the Hemingways and Fitzgeralds.