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Have you finished Jamrach's Menagerie yet? I've only just begun.
As for the "Greatest American Novel", I like your call of Slaughterhouse-Five and would add to it A Farewell to Arms. Though, I might point out that while both of these picks have American Protagonists, they take place largely outside of the US (and partially on the planet of Tralfamadore) which makes it difficult to call them an "American Novel" in the same way one might coin Huck-Finn as such.