Collider has published a ranked list of the ten greatest American books of the past 100 years, spanning modern speculative fiction to mid-20th-century classics. The list argues that American literature has grown into one of the world's most influential national traditions since the mid-19th century, with many of its strongest contenders for "the Great American Novel" emerging within the last century.

Topping out the countdown are titles including Brandon Sanderson's *Words of Radiance* (2014), praised as a landmark of 21st-century fantasy, and Ernest Hemingway's Pulitzer Prize-winning novella *The Old Man and the Sea* (1952), which was also cited when Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Other works referenced include *The Great Gatsby*, *Moby Dick* and *The Catcher in the Rye* as points of comparison, though the article text provided is incomplete and does not detail the remaining eight entries on the list.

– Collider ranks the ten greatest American books published since 1926.
– Brandon Sanderson's *Words of Radiance* and Hemingway's *The Old Man and the Sea* both feature.
– Full list of remaining entries not available in the provided article text.