'Books That Shaped America' from the Library of Congress

em>By Deirdre Donahue and Lindsay Deutsch, USA TODAY</em>To kick off its new exhibition, "Books That Shaped America," the Library of Congress asked curators and experts to compile a list of books that have influenced us as a nation. The selections come from different centuries and different experiences. They range from Thomas Paine's Common Sense, to Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, to <em>The Autobiography of Malcolm X</em>, to the <em>"Big Book" of Alcoholics Anonymous</em>. The exhibit will be on view from June 25 through Sept. 29 at the Library's Thomas Jefferson Building. Do you agree with the list? Comment at loc.gov/bookfest.Here is their list of 88 books, in the order in which they were published:1. Benjamin Franklin,<em> Experiments and Observations on Electricity</em> (1751)2. Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard Improved (1758) and <em>The Way to Wealth</em>3. Thomas Paine, <em>Common Sense</em> (1776)4. Noah Webster, <em>A Grammatical Institute of the English Language</em> (1783)5. <em>The Federalist </em>(1787)6. <em>A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible</em> (1788)7. Christopher Colles, <em>A Survey of the Roads of the United States of America</em> (1789)8. Benjamin Franklin,<em> The Private Life of the Late Benjamin Franklin, LL.D. </em>(1793)9. Amelia Simmons, <em>American Cookery</em> (1796)10. <em>New England Primer </em>(1803)11. Meriwether Lewis, <em>History of the Expedition Under the Command of the Captains Lewis and Clark</em> (1814)12. Washington Irving, <em>TheLegend of Sleepy Hollow </em>(1820)13. William Holmes McGuffey, <em>McGuffey's Newly Revised Eclectic Primer</em> (1836)14. Samuel Goodrich, <em>Peter Parley's Universal History</em> (1837)15. Frederick Douglass, <em>The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass</em> (1845)16. Nathaniel Hawthorne, <em>The Scarlet Letter</em> (1850)17. Herman Melville, <em>Moby-Dick</em>; or, <em>The Whale</em> (1851)18. Harriet Beecher Stowe,<em> Uncle Tom's Cabin</em> (1852)19. Henry David Thoreau, <em>Walden</em>; or,<em> Life in the Woods</em> (1854)20. Walt Whitman, <em>Leaves of Grass </em>(1855)21. Louisa May Alcott, <em>Little Women</em>, or,<em> Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy </em>(1868)22. Horatio Alger Jr., <em>Mark, the Match Boy</em> (1869)23. Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe, <em>The American Woman's Home </em>(1869)24. Mark Twain,<em> Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</em> (1884)25. Emily Dickinson,<em> Poems</em> (1890)26. Jacob Riis, <em>How the Other Half Lives</em> (1890)27. Stephen Crane, <em>The Red Badge of Courage </em>(1895)28. L. Frank Baum,<em> The Wonderful Wizard of Oz</em> (1900)29. Sarah H. Bradford, <em>Harriet, the Moses of Her People </em>(1901)30. Ida Tarbell,<em> The History of Standard Oil</em> (1904)31. Jack London, <em>The Call of the Wild</em> (1903)32. W. E. B. Du Bois,<em> The Souls of Black Folk</em> (1903)33. Upton Sinclair, <em>The Jungle</em> (1906)34. Henry Adams, <em>The Education of Henry Adams </em>(1907)35. William James,<em> Pragmatism</em> (1907)36. Zane Grey,<em> Riders of the Purple Sage</em> (1912)37. Edgar Rice Burroughs<em>, Tarzan of the Apes</em> (1914)38. Margaret Sanger, <em>Family Limitation</em> (1914)39. William Carlos Williams, <em>Spring and All</em> (1923)40. Robert Frost,<em> New Hampshire</em> (1923)41. F. Scott Fitzgerald, <em>The Great Gatsby </em>(1925)42. Langston Hughes, <em>The Weary Blues </em>(1925)43. William Faulkner, <em>The Sound and the Fury</em> (1929)44. Dashiell Hammett, <em>Red Harvest</em> (1929)45. Irma Rombauer,<em> Joy of Cooking </em>(1931)46. Margaret Mitchell,<em> Gone With the Wind</em> (1936)47. Dale Carnegie, <em>How to Win Friends and Influence People </em>(1936)48. Zora Neale Hurston, <em>Their Eyes Were Watching God</em> (1937)49. Federal Writers' Project, <em>Idaho: A Guide in Word and Pictures </em>(1937)50. Thornton Wilder,<em> Our Town: A Play </em>(1938)51. <em>Alcoholics Anonymous</em> (1939)52. John Steinbeck,<em> The Grapes of Wrath</em> (1939)53. Ernest Hemingway,<em> For Whom the Bell Tolls</em> (1940)54. Richard Wright,<em> Native Son</em> (1940)55. Betty Smith, <em>A Tree Grows in Brooklyn</em> (1943)56. Benjamin A. Botkin, <em>A Treasury of American Folklore</em> (1944)57. Gwendolyn Brooks, <em>A Street in Bronzeville </em>(1945)58. Benjamin Spock, <em>The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care</em> (1946)59. Eugene O'Neill, <em>The Iceman Cometh </em>(1946)60. Margaret Wise Brown, <em>Goodnight Moon</em> (1947)61. Tennessee Williams, <em>A Streetcar Named Desire </em>(1947)62. Alfred C. Kinsey, <em>Sexual Behavior in the Human Male</em> (1948)63. J. D. Salinger, <em>The Catcher in the Rye</em> (1951)64. Ralph Ellison,<em> Invisible Man (</em>1952)65. E. B. White, <em>Charlotte's Web</em> (1952)66. Ray Bradbury, <em>Fahrenheit 451</em> (1953)67. Allen Ginsberg, <em>Howl </em>(1956)68. Ayn Rand, <em>Atlas Shrugged </em>(1957)69. Dr. Seuss, <em>The Cat in the Hat</em> (1957)70. Jack Kerouac, <em>On the Road </em>(1957)71. Harper Lee,<em> To Kill a Mockingbird</em> (1960)72. Joseph Heller,<em> Catch-22</em> (1961)73. Robert E. Heinlein, <em>Stranger in a Strange Land</em> (1961)74. Jack Ezra Keats, <em>The Snowy Day</em> (1962)75. Maurice Sendak, <em>Where the Wild Things Are</em> (1963)76. James Baldwin, <em>The Fire Next Time</em> (1963)77. Betty Friedan, <em>The Feminine Mystique</em> (1963)78. Malcolm X and Alex Haley, <em>The Autobiography of Malcolm X </em>(1965)79. Ralph Nader, <em>Unsafe at Any Speed </em>(1965)80. Rachel Carson, <em>Silent Spring</em> (1962)81. Truman Capote, <em>In Cold Blood </em>(1966)82. James D. Watson, <em>The Double Helix </em>(1968)83. Dee Brown, <em>Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee</em> (1970)84. <em>Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Our Bodies, Ourselves</em> (1971)85. Carl Sagan, <em>Cosmos</em> (1980)86. Toni Morrison, <em>Beloved </em>(1987)87. Randy Shilts, <em>And the Band Played On</em> (1987)88. César Chávez, <em>The Words of César Chávez </em>(2002)<