Library of Congress Books that Shaped America1900 to 1950

Given by Library of Congress

35 Works 337,267 Books 5,790 Reviews ½ 4.0
Categories:
All, 1750 to 1800 (8), 1800 to 1850 (6), 1850 to 1900 (15), 1900 to 1950 (35), 1950 to 2000 (26)
Year Awarded:
2012
Work
The Education of Henry Adams (1907) by Henry Adams
Alcoholics Anonymous (1939) by Alcoholics Anonymous
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) by L. Frank Baum
A Treasury of American Folklore (1944) by B. A. Botkin
Harriet Tubman: The Moses of Her People (1886) by Sarah Bradford
A Street in Bronzeville (1945) by Gwendolyn Brooks
Goodnight Moon (1947) by Margaret Wise Brown
Tarzan of the Apes (1914) by Edgar Rice Burroughs
How to Win Friends & Influence People (1936) by Dale Carnegie
The Souls of Black Folk (1903) by W. E. B. Du Bois
The Sound and the Fury (1929) by William Faulkner
Idaho: A Guide in Word and Picture (1937) by Federal Writers Project
The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
New Hampshire (1923) by Robert Frost
Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) by Zane Grey
Red Harvest (1929) by Dashiell Hammett
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) by Ernest Hemingway
The Weary Blues (1926) by Langston Hughes
Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) by Zora Neale Hurston
Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (1907) by William James
Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) by Alfred C. Kinsey
The Call of the Wild (1903) by Jack London
Gone with the Wind (1936) by Margaret Mitchell
The Iceman Cometh (1946) by Eugene O'Neill
Joy of Cooking [1936-1946]: A Compilation of Reliable Recipes, with an Occasional Culinary Chat (1931) by Irma S. Rombauer
Family Limitations (1915) by Margaret Sanger
The Jungle (1906) by Upton Sinclair
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943) by Betty Smith
Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care (1945) by Benjamin Spock
The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck
The History of the Standard Oil Company (1905) by Ida M. Tarbell
Our Town (1938) by Thornton Wilder
A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) by Tennessee Williams
Spring and All (Facsimile Edition) (New Directions Pearls) (1970) by William Carlos Williams
Native Son (1940) by Richard Wright

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