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Books That Shaped America 2012
TOP 25: Favorites in 2012
- Ayn Rand (1905–1982). Atlas Shrugged, 1957
- Harper Lee (1926−2016). To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960
- Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835–1910). The Adventures of Huckleberry, 1884
- Thomas Paine (1737–1809). Common Sense, 1776
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896). Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, 1852
- The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution, 1788
- Upton Sinclair (1878–1968). The Jungle, 1906
- J. D. Salinger (1919–2010). The Catcher in the Rye, 1951
- John Steinbeck (1902–1968). The Grapes of Wrath, 1939
- Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism, 1939
- Ray Bradbury (1920–2012). Fahrenheit 451, 1953
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940). The Great Gatsby, 1925
- Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888). Little Women; or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, 1868
- Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949). Gone With the Wind, 1936
- Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel, 1904–1991). The Cat in the Hat, 1957
- Rachel Carson (1907–1964). Silent Spring, 1962
- Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862). Walden; or, Life in the Woods, 1854
- Jack Kerouac (1922–1969). On the Road, 1957
- Betty Friedan (1921–2006). The Feminine Mystique, 1963
- L. Frank Baum (1856–1919). The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, 1900
- Herman Melville (1819–1891). Moby-Dick; or, the Whale, 1851
- Dale Carnegie (1888–1955). How to Win Friends and Influence People, 1936
- Joseph Heller (1923–1999). Catch-22, 1961
- Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Leaves of Grass, 1855
- Benjamin Spock (1903–1998). The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, 1946
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