He liked it in American literature. Emily Browning's work, The Turn of the Screw, is considered one of the most outstanding works of English literature in the 20th century. It portrays the life of a woman who was isolated by society and finally achieved self-redemption through self-liberation and choice. 2. Snow Crash by James Thuber is a science fiction novel about a frozen young man who travels back to the past and discovers that he can change history and have a profound impact on the future of mankind. The Godfather, by Raymond Chandler, was a classic gangster novel that used family stories as the main theme to reveal the American gangster culture, family ethics, and power struggles. William F. Buckley's The Sound and the Fury is a black humorous novel that portrays the story of a policeman and a black teenager in a small American town, revealing the existence of racial discrimination and violence in American society. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Gerald, was set in the 1920s and told the story of a rich white man pursuing his dreams and the huge gap between him and the people at the bottom of society.