I'm going to nominate
The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos, the first book of his
U.S.A. trilogy.
From Wikipedia:
Quote:
The trilogy employs an experimental technique, incorporating four narrative modes: fictional narratives telling the life stories of twelve characters; collages of newspaper clippings and song lyrics labeled "Newsreel"; individually labeled short biographies of public figures of the time such as Woodrow Wilson and Henry Ford and fragments of autobiographical stream of consciousness writing labeled "Camera Eye". The trilogy covers the historical development of American society during the first three decades of the twentieth century.
In 1998, the Modern Library ranked U.S.A. Trilogy 23rd on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.
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Norman Mailer on
42nd Parallel: "The single greatest novel any of us have written, yes, in this country in the last one hundred years."
I was positive that this was available in ebook and even that I owned it. Oops. Not that I can find. But it's widely available in libraries and cheap editions.