The 88 Books that Shaped America (and perhaps the future me!)

I was just reading an article that mentioned that the Library of Congress has compiled a list of the 88 books that have shaped the United States. To my surprise, Ben Franklin has three books on this list and there are a number of children's books. Although I am not interested in a lot of the books, my new goal is to try to read/reread all the books on the list. (I am feeling apprehensive about this, so I will likely start with the books for kids!) Here's the list: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain (1884); Alcoholics Anonymous, anonymous (1939); American Cookery, Amelia Simmons (1796); The American Woman's Home, Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe (1869); And the Band Played On, Randy Shilts (1987); Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand (1957); The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X and Alex Haley (1965); Beloved, Toni Morrison (1987); Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown (1970); The Call of the Wild, Jack London (1903); The Cat in the Hat, Dr. Seuss (1957); Catch-22, Joseph Heller (1961); The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger (1951); Charlotte's Web, E.B. White (1952); Common Sense, Thomas Paine (1776); The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, Benjamin Spock (1946); Cosmos, Carl Sagan (1980); A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible, anonymous (1788); The Double Helix, James D. Watson (1968); The Education of Henry Adams, Henry Adams (1907); Experiments and Observations on Electricity, Benjamin Franklin (1751); Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury (1953); Family Limitation, Margaret Sanger (1914); The Federalist, anonymous (1787); The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan (1963); The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin (1963); For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway (1940); Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell (1936); Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown (1947); A Grammatical Institute of the English Language, Noah Webster (1783); The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck (1939); The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925); Harriet, the Moses of Her People, Sarah H. Bradford (1901); The History of Standard Oil, Ida Tarbell (1904); History of the Expedition Under the Command of the Captains Lewis and Clark, Meriwether Lewis (1814); How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis (1890); How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie (1936); Howl, Allen Ginsberg (1956); The Iceman Cometh, Eugene O'Neill (1946); Idaho: A Guide in Word and Pictures, Federal Writers' Project (1937); In Cold Blood, Truman Capote (1966); Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison (1952); Joy of Cooking, Irma Rombauer (1931); The Jungle, Upton Sinclair (1906); Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman (1855); The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving (1820); Little Women, or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, Louisa May Alcott (1868); Mark, the Match Boy, Horatio Alger Jr. (1869); McGuffey's Newly Revised Eclectic Primer, William Holmes McGuffey (1836); Moby-Dick; or The Whale, Herman Melville (1851); The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass (1845); Native Son, Richard Wright (1940); New England Primer, anonymous (1803); New Hampshire, Robert Frost (1923); On the Road, Jack Kerouac (1957); Our Bodies, Ourselves, Boston Women's Health Book Collective (1971); Our Town: A Play, Thornton Wilder 1938; Peter Parley's Universal History, Samuel Goodrich (1837); Poems, Emily Dickinson (1890); Poor Richard Improved and The Way to Wealth, Benjamin Franklin (1758); Pragmatism, William James (1907); The Private Life of the Late Benjamin Franklin, LL.D., Benjamin Franklin (1793); The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane (1895); Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett (1929); Riders of the Purple Sage, Zane Grey (1912); The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850); Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, Alfred C. Kinsey (1948); Silent Spring, Rachel Carson (1962); The Snowy Day, Ezra Jack Keats (1962); The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du Bois (1903); The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner (1929); Spring and All, William Carlos Williams (1923); Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein (1961); A Street in Bronzeville, Gwendolyn Brooks (1945); A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams (1947); 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); To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee (1960); A Treasury of American Folklore, Benjamin A. Botkin (1944); A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith (1943); Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852); Unsafe at Any Speed, Ralph Nader (1965); Walden; or Life in the Woods, Henry David Thoreau (1854); The Weary Blues, Langston Hughes (1925); Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak (1963); The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum (1900); The Words of Cesar Chavez, Cesar Chavez (2002)