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Books That Shaped America
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| Title | Author | 1st Published | MSL holdings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | 1884 | 813 T969ad-h 1996 |
| Alcoholics Anonymous | anonymous | 1939 | 362.292 A3542 1957 |
| American Cookery | Amelia Simmons | 1796 | |
| The American Woman's Home | Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe | 1869 | 640 B414a 2002 |
| And the Band Played On | Randy Shilts | 1987 | 362.19697 S556a 1987 |
| Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand | 1957 | 813 R186a 1957 |
| The Autobiography of Malcolm X | Malcolm X and Alex Haley | 1965 | B X1a 1992 |
| Beloved | Toni Morrison | 1987 | 813 M882b 1987 |
| Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee | Dee Brown | 1970 | 970.5 B877b 1970 |
| The Call of the Wild | Jack London | 1903 | 813 L84t 1993 |
| The Cat in the Hat | Dr. Seuss | 1957 | OUT J372.4 S496 |
| Catch-22 | Joseph Heller | 1961 | 813 H477c 1990 |
| The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger | 1951 | 813 S165 c.2 |
| Charlotte's Web | E.B. White | 1952 | MAC OUT J W |
| Common Sense | Thomas Paine | 1776 | 320.011 P147c 2005 |
| The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care | Benjamin Spock | 1946 | 649.1 S762d 2012 |
| Cosmos | Carl Sagan | 1980 | 520 S129c 1980 c.2 |
| A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible | anonymous | 1788 | |
| The Double Helix | James D. Watson | 1968 | 572.86 W339d 1968 |
| The Education of Henry Adams | Henry Adams | 1907 | B A2135a-e 2007 |
| Experiments and Observations on Electricity | Benjamin Franklin | 1751 | Storehouse |
| Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | 1953 | 813 B798f 2003 |
| Family Limitation | Margaret Sanger | 1914 | |
| The Federalist | anonymous | 1787 | SAFE 342.734 F293.Yr 1961 |
| The Feminine Mystique | Betty Friedan | 1963 | 305.42 F899f 2001 |
| The Fire Next Time | James Baldwin | 1963 | 305.896 B181f 1995 |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway | 1940 | 813 H48fo |
| Gone With the Wind | Margaret Mitchell | 1936 | 813 M682g 1993 |
| Goodnight Moon | Margaret Wise Brown | 1947 | MAC OUT J 398.8 B8795go |
| A Grammatical Institute of the English Language | Noah Webster | 1783 | Storehouse |
| The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | 1939 | Storehouse 813 S8195g 2000 |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1925 | 813 F55g c.2 |
| Harriet, the Moses of Her People | Sarah H. Bradford | 1901 | |
| The History of Standard Oil | Ida Tarbell | 1904 | 338.8 T179h 1904 v.1 2 vols |
| History of the Expedition Under the Command of the Captains Lewis and Clark | Meriwether Lewis | 1814 | SAFE 917.8042 L673 2003 |
| How the Other Half Lives | Jacob Riis | 1890 | 305.56 R572h 1957 |
| How to Win Friends and Influence People | Dale Carnegie | 1936 | 158.1 C289h 1998 |
| Howl | Allen Ginsberg | 1956 | 811 G493h 1959 |
| The Iceman Cometh | Eugene O'Neill | 1946 | 812 O58i 1999 |
| Idaho: A Guide in Word and Pictures | Federal Writers' Project | 1937 | |
| In Cold Blood | Truman Capote | 1966 | 345.025 C246i 1966 |
| Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison | 1952 | 813 E47i 2002 |
| Joy of Cooking | Irma Rombauer | 1931 | 641.5 R76j 1997 |
| The Jungle | Upton Sinclair | 1906 | 813 S616j 1984 |
| Leaves of Grass | Walt Whitman | 1855 | SAFE 811 W61Lc.2 |
| The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | Washington Irving | 1820 | 813 I727c 1998 |
| Little Women, or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy | Louisa May Alcott | 1868 | 813 A355L-wo 2005 |
| Mark, the Match Boy | Horatio Alger Jr. | 1869 | |
| McGuffey's Newly Revised Eclectic Primer | William Holmes McGuffey | 1836 | Storehouse |
| Moby-Dick; or The Whale | Herman Melville | 1851 | 813 M53m 2001 |
| The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass | Frederick Douglass | 1845 | Storehouse 326 D737n 1968 |
| Native Son | Richard Wright | 1940 | 813 W952n 1957 |
| New England Primer | anonymous | 1803 | Storehouse |
| New Hampshire | Robert Frost | 1923 | 811 F9397n 1923 |
| On the Road | Jack Kerouac | 1957 | 813 K39o 1991 |
| Our Bodies, Ourselves | Boston Women's Health Book Collective | 1971 | 613.04244 093 2011 |
| Our Town: A Play | Thornton Wilder | 1938 | 812 W67o 1938 |
| Peter Parley's Universal History | Samuel Goodrich | 1837 | |
| Poems | Emily Dickinson | 1890 | 811 D553c 1960 |
| Poor Richard Improved and The Way to Wealth | Benjamin Franklin | 1758 | 818 F83 1976 |
| Pragmatism | William James | 1907 | 144 J29p |
| The Private Life of the Late Benjamin Franklin, LL.D. | Benjamin Franklin | 1793 | B F8312f-be 1945 |
| The Red Badge of Courage | Stephen Crane | 1895 | 813 C891r-r 1982 |
| Red Harvest | Dashiell Hammett | 1929 | 813 H224n 1965 |
| Riders of the Purple Sage | Zane Grey | 1912 | OUT G |
| The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne | 1850 | 813 H39s 1959 |
| Sexual Behavior in the Human Male | Alfred C. Kinsey | 1948 | 305.3 K56s 1948 |
| Silent Spring | Rachel Carson | 1962 | 363.7384 C321s 1962 MAC |
| The Snowy Day | Ezra Jack Keats | 1962 | OUT 398.8 K |
| The Souls of Black Folk | W.E.B. Du Bois | 1903 | 973.0496 D816s 2001 audio |
| The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner | 1929 | 813 F26sou c.2 |
| Spring and All | William Carlos Williams | 1923 | |
| Stranger in a Strange Land | Robert E. Heinlein | 1961 | OUT H |
| A Street in Bronzeville | Gwendolyn Brooks | 1945 | |
| A Streetcar Named Desire | Tennessee Williams | 1947 | 812 W727s &audio |
| A Survey of the Roads of the United States of America | Christopher Colles | 1789 | |
| Tarzan of the Apes | Edgar Rice Burroughs | 1914 | |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston | 1937 | 813 H966t 1991 |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | 1960 | 813 L478t 1995 |
| A Treasury of American Folklore | Benjamin A. Botkin | 1944 | Storehouse |
| A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Betty Smith | 1943 | 813 S643t 1943 |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe | 1852 | 813 S89u 2007 &MAC |
| Unsafe at Any Speed | Ralph Nader | 1965 | 629.28 N135u 1972 |
| Walden; or Life in the Woods | Henry David Thoreau | 1854 | 818 T48w 1951 &SAfe |
| The Weary Blues | Langston Hughes | 1925 | 811 H893c 1994 |
| Where the Wild Things Are | Maurice Sendak | 1963 | OUT 398.8 S |
| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | L. Frank Baum | 1900 | |
| The Words of Cesar Chavez | Cesar Chavez | 2002 |
