{"id":9454,"date":"2012-06-26T06:00:49","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T10:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=9454"},"modified":"2012-07-04T09:25:30","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T13:25:30","slug":"books-that-shaped-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/9454","title":{"rendered":"Books That Shaped America"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Library of Congress has a list called: Books That Shaped America<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Considering how eclectic my tastes are, I found myself unsurprised at how few of these I’ve read or attempted to read. (22\/88 or 25%)
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\nx Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain – 1884
\n Alcoholics Anonymous – anonymous – 1939
\n American Cookery – Amelia Simmons – 1796
\n The American Woman’s Home – Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe – 1869
\n And the Band Played On – Randy Shilts – 1987
\nx Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand – 1957
\n\\ The Autobiography of Malcolm X – Malcolm X and Alex Haley – 1965
\n Beloved – Toni Morrison – 1987
\n Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee – Dee Brown – 1970
\n The Call of the Wild – Jack London – 1903
\nx The Cat in the Hat – Dr. Seuss – 1957
\nx Catch-22 – Joseph Heller – 1961
\nx The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger – 1951
\nx Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White – 1952
\n Common Sense – Thomas Paine – 1776
\n The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care – Benjamin Spock – 1946
\n Cosmos – Carl Sagan – 1980
\n A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible – anonymous – 1788
\n\\ The Double Helix – James D. Watson – 1968
\n The Education of Henry Adams – Henry Adams – 1907
\n Experiments and Observations on Electricity – Benjamin Franklin – 1751
\n Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury – 1953
\n Family Limitation – Margaret Sanger – 1914
\n The Federalist – anonymous – 1787
\n The Feminine Mystique – Betty Friedan – 1963
\nx The Fire Next Time – James Baldwin – 1963
\n For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway – 1940
\n Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell – 1936
\nx Goodnight Moon – Margaret Wise Brown – 1947
\n A Grammatical Institute of the English Language – Noah Webster – 1783
\n\\ The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck – 1939
\nx The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald – 1925
\n Harriet, the Moses of Her People – Sarah H. Bradford – 1901
\n The History of Standard Oil – Ida Tarbell – 1904
\n History of the Expedition Under the Command of the Captains Lewis and Clark – Meriwether Lewis – 1814
\n How the Other Half Lives – Jacob Riis – 1890
\n How to Win Friends and Influence People – Dale Carnegie – 1936
\n Howl – Allen Ginsberg – 1956
\n The Iceman Cometh – Eugene O’Neill – 1946
\n Idaho: A Guide in Word and Pictures – Federal Writers’ Project – 1937
\n In Cold Blood – Truman Capote – 1966
\n Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison – 1952
\nx Joy of Cooking – Irma Rombauer – 1931
\n\\ The Jungle – Upton Sinclair – 1906
\n Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman – 1855
\nx The Legend of Sleepy Hollow – Washington Irving – 1820
\nx Little Women, or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy – Louisa May Alcott – 1868
\n Mark, the Match Boy – Horatio Alger Jr. – 1869
\n McGuffey’s Newly Revised Eclectic Primer – William Holmes McGuffey – 1836
\n Moby-Dick; or The Whale – Herman Melville – 1851
\n The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass – Frederick Douglass – 1845
\n\\ Native Son – Richard Wright – 1940
\n New England Primer – anonymous – 1803
\n New Hampshire – Robert Frost – 1923
\n On the Road – Jack Kerouac – 1957
\n\\ Our Bodies, Ourselves – Boston Women’s Health Book Collective – 1971
\n Our Town: A Play – Thornton Wilder – 1938
\n Peter Parley’s Universal History – Samuel Goodrich – 1837
\n Poems – Emily Dickinson – 1890
\n Poor Richard Improved and The Way to Wealth – Benjamin Franklin – 1758
\n Pragmatism – William James – 1907
\n The Private Life of the Late Benjamin Franklin, LL.D. – Benjamin Franklin – 1793
\n The Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane – 1895
\n Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett – 1929
\n Riders of the Purple Sage – Zane Grey – 1912
\n\\ The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne – 1850
\n Sexual Behavior in the Human Male – Alfred C. Kinsey – 1948
\n Silent Spring – Rachel Carson – 1962
\nx The Snowy Day – Ezra Jack Keats – 1962
\n The Souls of Black Folk – W.E.B. Du Bois – 1903
\n The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner – 1929
\n Spring and All – William Carlos Williams – 1923
\n Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert E. Heinlein – 1961
\n A Street in Bronzeville – Gwendolyn Brooks – 1945
\n A Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee Williams – 1947
\n A Survey of the Roads of the United States of America – Christopher Colles – 1789
\n Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs – 1914
\n Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston – 1937
\n To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee – 1960
\n A Treasury of American Folklore – Benjamin A. Botkin – 1944
\n A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith – 1943
\n Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe – 1852
\n Unsafe at Any Speed – Ralph Nader – 1965
\n Walden; or Life in the Woods – Henry David Thoreau – 1854
\n The Weary Blues – Langston Hughes – 1925
\nx Where the Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak – 1963
\nx The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – L. Frank Baum – 1900
\n The Words of Cesar Chavez – Cesar Chavez – 2002<\/p>\n

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