The Great Gatsby
1925 · F. Scott Fitzgerald · 208 pages · Literary Fiction
A hundred years after publication, The Great Gatsby still starts arguments. Its prose remains stunning, the symbolism rewards every reread, and its portrait of ambition rotting behind a beautiful facade hasn't lost a step. Characters are hollow on purpose and the plot is thin by design, but that doesn't change the fact that some readers will bounce right off both. It's a book that asks you to care about people who don't deserve it, set against a version of America that hasn't really gone away. That tension is exactly why it endures.