The 100 "Books That Shaped America" according to the Library of Congress
Access the full list here: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-13-005/books-that-shaped-america-on-amazon/2013-01-22/

I chat about the following books:
Washington Irving, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” (1820).
Frederick Douglass, “The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass” (1845).
Edgar Allan Poe, “Tales” (1845).
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Scarlet Letter” (1850).
Herman Melville, “Moby-Dick,” or, “The Whale” (1851).
Walt Whitman, “Leaves of Grass” (1855).
Louisa May Alcott, “Little Women,” or, “Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy” (1868).
Mark Twain, “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” (1884).
Emily Dickinson, “Poems” (1890).
Stephen Crane, “The Red Badge of Courage” (1895).
L. Frank Baum, “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” (1900).
Jack London, “The Call of the Wild” (1903).
Willa Cather, “My Antonia” (1918).
F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Great Gatsby” (1925).
William Faulkner, “The Sound and the Fury” (1929).
Irma Rombauer, “Joy of Cooking” (1931).
Margaret Mitchell, “Gone With the Wind” (1936).
Dale Carnegie, “How to Win Friends and Influence People” (1936).
Zora Neale Hurston, “Their Eyes Were Watching God” (1937).
“Alcoholics Anonymous” (1939).
John Steinbeck, “The Grapes of Wrath” (1939).
Ernest Hemingway, “For Whom the Bell Tolls” (1940).
Betty Smith, “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” (1943).
Margaret Wise Brown, “Goodnight Moon” (1947).
J.D. Salinger, “The Catcher in the Rye” (1951).
E.B. White, “Charlotte’s Web” (1952).
Ray Bradbury, “Fahrenheit 451” (1953).
Ayn Rand, “Atlas Shrugged” (1957).
Dr. Seuss, “The Cat in the Hat” (1957).
Harper Lee, “To Kill a Mockingbird” (1960).
Robert Heinlein, “Stranger in a Strange Land” (1961).
Ezra Jack Keats, “The Snowy Day” (1962).
James Baldwin, “The Fire Next Time” (1963).
Truman Capote, “In Cold Blood” (1966).
Toni Morrison, “Beloved” (1987).

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Schedule for The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights by John Steinbeck
February 1-7: Chapters 1-2
February 8-14: Chapters 3-5
February 15-21: Chapter 6
February 22-28: Chapter 7

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