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Library of Congress

Books That Shaped America

Resources for a selection of books from the Library of Congress Books That Shaped America list, reflecting America's unique and extraordinary literary heritage.

Resources for this booklist include:

  • 33 Videos
  • 69 Book Readings
  • 301 Lesson Plans
  • Total of 568 resources

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To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird
  • by Harper Lee
    • Multimedia Resources: 28
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    Cat in the Hat, The
    The Cat in the Hat
  • by Dr. Seuss
    • Multimedia Resources: 28
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    Where the Wild Things Are
    Where the Wild Things Are
  • by Maurice Sendak
    • Multimedia Resources: 27
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    Fahrenheit 451
    Fahrenheit 451
  • by Ray Bradbury
    • Multimedia Resources: 25
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    Snowy Day, The
    The Snowy Day
  • by Ezra Jack Keats
    • Multimedia Resources: 25
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    Charlotte's Web
    Charlotte's Web
  • by E.B. White and Garth Williams
    • Multimedia Resources: 21
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    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • by Mark Twain
    • Multimedia Resources: 20
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    Great Gatsby, The
    The Great Gatsby
  • by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    • Multimedia Resources: 19
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    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
  • by Zora Neale Hurston
    • Multimedia Resources: 17
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    Call of the Wild, The
    The Call of the Wild
  • by Jack London
    • Multimedia Resources: 16
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    Grapes of Wrath, The
    The Grapes of Wrath
  • by John Steinbeck
    • Multimedia Resources: 16
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    My Antonia
    My Antonia
  • by Willa Cather
    • Multimedia Resources: 14
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    Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
    Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
  • by Frederick Douglass
    • Multimedia Resources: 14
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    Red Badge of Courage, The
    The Red Badge of Courage
  • by Stephen Crane
    • Multimedia Resources: 14
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    Scarlet Letter, The
    The Scarlet Letter
  • by Nathaniel Hawthorne
    • Multimedia Resources: 14
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    Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The
    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
  • by L. Frank Baum
    • Multimedia Resources: 13
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    Bless Me, Ultima
    Bless Me, Ultima
  • by Rudolfo A. Anaya
    • Multimedia Resources: 12
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    Catcher in the Rye, The
    The Catcher in the Rye
  • by J.D. Salinger
    • Multimedia Resources: 12
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    Little Women
    Little Women
  • by Louisa May Alcott
    • Multimedia Resources: 12
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    Souls of Black Folk, The
    The Souls of Black Folk
  • by W.E.B. Du Bois
    • Multimedia Resources: 11
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    Atlas Shrugged
    Atlas Shrugged
  • by Ayn Rand
    • Multimedia Resources: 9
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    Beloved
    Beloved
  • by Toni Morrison
    • Multimedia Resources: 9
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    In Cold Blood
    In Cold Blood
  • by Truman Capote
    • Multimedia Resources: 9
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    Leaves of Grass
    Leaves of Grass
  • by Walt Whitman
    • Multimedia Resources: 9
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    Moby Dick, or, The Whale
    Moby Dick, or, The Whale
  • by Herman Melville
    • Multimedia Resources: 9
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    Our Town
    Our Town
  • by Thornton Wilder
    • Multimedia Resources: 9
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    Slaughterhouse-Five
    Slaughterhouse-Five
  • by Kurt Vonnegut
    • Multimedia Resources: 9
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    Goodnight Moon
    Goodnight Moon
  • by Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd
    • Multimedia Resources: 8
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    Sound and the Fury, The
    The Sound and the Fury
  • by William Faulkner
    • Multimedia Resources: 8
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    Uncle Tom's Cabin
    Uncle Tom's Cabin
  • by Harriet Beecher Stowe
    • Multimedia Resources: 8
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    Walden, or Life in the Woods
    Walden, or Life in the Woods
  • by Henry David Thoreau
    • Multimedia Resources: 8
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    Double Helix, The
    The Double Helix
  • by James D. Watson
    • Multimedia Resources: 8
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    Common Sense
    Common Sense
  • by Thomas Paine
    • Multimedia Resources: 7
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    Streetcar Named Desire, A
    A Streetcar Named Desire
  • by Tennessee Williams
    • Multimedia Resources: 7
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    Silent Spring
    Silent Spring
  • by Rachel Carson
    • Multimedia Resources: 7
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    Invisible Man
    Invisible Man
  • by Ralph Ellison
    • Multimedia Resources: 6
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    Native Son
    Native Son
  • by Richard Wright
    • Multimedia Resources: 6
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    Autobiography of Malcolm X, The
    The Autobiography of Malcolm X
  • by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
    • Multimedia Resources: 5
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    Jungle, The
    The Jungle
  • by Upton Sinclair
    • Multimedia Resources: 5
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    Gone with the Wind
    Gone with the Wind
  • by Margaret Mitchell
    • Multimedia Resources: 5
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    Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
    Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
  • by Dee Brown
    • Multimedia Resources: 5
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    Cosmos
    Cosmos
  • by Carl Sagan
    • Multimedia Resources: 5
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    Catch-22
    Catch-22
  • by Joseph Heller
    • Multimedia Resources: 4
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    Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, The
    The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
  • by Emily Dickinson
    • Multimedia Resources: 4
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    For Whom the Bell Tolls
    For Whom the Bell Tolls
  • by Ernest Hemingway
    • Multimedia Resources: 4
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    Stranger in a Strange Land
    Stranger in a Strange Land
  • by Robert A. Heinlein
    • Multimedia Resources: 4
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    Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A
    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  • by Betty Smith
    • Multimedia Resources: 4
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    Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, The
    The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
  • by Edgar Allan Poe
    • Multimedia Resources: 4
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    Fire Next Time, The
    The Fire Next Time
  • by James Baldwin
    • Multimedia Resources: 4
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    On the Road
    On the Road
  • by Jack Kerouac
    • Multimedia Resources: 3
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    Woman Warrior, The: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
    The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
  • by Maxine Hong Kingston
    • Multimedia Resources: 3
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    Iceman Cometh, The
    The Iceman Cometh
  • by Eugene O'Neill
    • Multimedia Resources: 3
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    Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The
    The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
  • by Washington Irving
    • Multimedia Resources: 3
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    Howl: And Other Poems
    Howl: And Other Poems
  • by Allen Ginsberg
    • Multimedia Resources: 2
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    Spring and All
    Spring and All
  • by William Carlos Williams
    • Multimedia Resources: 2
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    New-England Primer, The
    The New-England Primer
  • by John Cotton
    • Multimedia Resources: 2
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    Tarzan of the Apes
    Tarzan of the Apes
  • by Edgar Rice Burroughs
    • Multimedia Resources: 2
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    How to Win Friends and Influence People
    How to Win Friends and Influence People
  • by Dale Carnegie
    • Multimedia Resources: 1
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