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America Reads 2016
TOP 40: Nominations for 2016
- Ayn Rand (1905−1982). The Fountainhead, 1943
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922−2007). Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death, 1969
- Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867−1957). Little House in the Big Woods, 1932 (Little House Series)
- Joseph Smith, Translator(1805−1844).The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, 1830
- Willa Cather (1873−1947). My Ántonia, 1918
- Alex Haley (1921−1992). Roots, 1976
- Ayn Rand (1905−1982). Anthem, 1938
- Alice Walker (b. 1944). The Color Purple, 1982
- John Steinbeck (1902−1968). Of Mice and Men, 1937
- John Steinbeck (1902−1968). East of Eden, 1952
- Sylvia Plath (1932−1963). The Bell Jar, 1963
- Tim O'Brien (b. 1946). The Things They Carried, 1990
- Carl Bernstein (b. 1944) and Bob Woodward (b. 1943). All the President's Men, 1974
- Arthur Miller (1915−2005). Death of a Salesman, 1949
- Arthur Miller (1915−2005). The Crucible, 1953
- Ernest Hemingway (1899−1961). The Old Man and the Sea, 1952
- Ken Kesey (1935−2001). One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1962
- Hunter S. Thompson (1937−2005). Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, 1972
- Ernest Hemingway (1899−1961). The Sun Also Rises, 1926
- John F. Kennedy (1917−1963). Profiles in Courage, 1956
- Stephen King (b. 1947). The Stand, 1978
- Larry McMurtry (b. 1936). Lonesome Dove, 1985
- Judy Blume (b. 1938). Are You There God? It's Me Margaret, 1970
- Howard Zinn (1922−2010). A People's History of the United States, 1980
- James Fenimore Cooper (1789−1851). The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757, 1826
- Robert A. Heinlein (1907−1988). The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, 1966
- Wilson Rawls (1913−1984). Where the Red Fern Grows,1961
- Madeleine L'Engle (1918−2007). A Wrinkle in Time, 1962
- Frank Herbert (1920−1986). Dune, 1965
- Thomas Pynchon (b. 1937). Gravity's Rainbow, 1973
- Simone Beck (1904−1991), Louisette Bertholle (1905−1999), and Julia Child (1912−2004), Mastering the Art of French Cooking, 1961
- Kate Chopin (1850−1904). The Awakening, 1899
- Shel Silverstein (1930−1999). The Giving Tree, 1964
- Milton Friedman (1912−2006). Capitalism and Freedom,1962
- Milton Friedman (1912−2006) and Rose Friedman (1910−2009). Free to Choose, 1980
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803−1882). Nature, 1836
- Napoleon Hill (1883−1970). Think and Grow Rich, 1937
- John Kennedy Toole (1937−1969). A Confederacy of Dunces, 1980
- Robert Penn Warren (1905−1989). All the King's Men, 1946
- Robert Pirsig (b. 1928). Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, 1974
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