A Washington DC a partir de demà i fins el 29 de setembre, a la National Library, exposició «Books That Shaped America»

1. Experiments and Observations on Electricity — Benjamin Franklin (1751)
2. Poor Richard Improved and The Way to Wealth — Benjamin Franklin (1758)
3. Common Sense — Thomas Paine (1776)
4. A Grammatical Institute of the English Language — Noah Webster (1783)
5. The Federalist — anonymous (1787)
6. A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible — anonymous (1788)
7. A Survey of the Roads of the United States of America — Christopher Colles (1789)
8. The Private Life of the Late Benjamin Franklin, LL.D. — Benjamin Franklin (1793)
9. American Cookery — Amelia Simmons (1796)
10. New England Primer — anonymous (1803)
11. History of the Expedition Under the Command of the Captains Lewis and Clark — Meriwether Lewis (1814)
12. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow — Washington Irving (1820)
13. McGuffey’s Newly Revised Eclectic Primer — William Holmes McGuffey (1836)
14. Peter Parley’s Universal History — Samuel Goodrich (1837)
15. The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass — Frederick Douglass (1845)
16. The Scarlet Letter — Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)
17. Moby-Dick; or The Whale — Herman Melville (1851)
18. Uncle Tom’s Cabin — Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)
19. Walden; or Life in the Woods — Henry David Thoreau (1854)
20. Leaves of Grass — Walt Whitman (1855)
21. Little Women, or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy — Louisa May Alcott (1868)
22. The American Woman’s Home — Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe (1869)
23. Mark, the Match Boy — Horatio Alger Jr. (1869)
24. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Mark Twain (1884)
25. How the Other Half Lives — Jacob Riis (1890)
26. Poems — Emily Dickinson (1890)
27. The Red Badge of Courage — Stephen Crane (1895)
28. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz — L. Frank Baum (1900)
29. Harriet, the Moses of Her People — Sarah H. Bradford (1901)
30. The Call of the Wild — Jack London (1903)
31. The Souls of Black Folk — W.E.B. Du Bois (1903)
32. The History of Standard Oil — Ida Tarbell (1904)
33. The Jungle — Upton Sinclair (1906)
34. The Education of Henry Adams — Henry Adams (1907)
35. Pragmatism — William James (1907)
36. Riders of the Purple Sage — Zane Grey (1912)
37. Family Limitation — Margaret Sanger (1914)
38. Tarzan of the Apes — Edgar Rice Burroughs (1914)
39. New Hampshire — Robert Frost (1923)
40. Spring and All — William Carlos Williams (1923)
41. The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
42. The Weary Blues — Langston Hughes (1925)
43. Red Harvest — Dashiell Hammett (1929)
44. The Sound and the Fury — William Faulkner (1929)
45. Joy of Cooking — Irma Rombauer (1931)
46. Gone With the Wind — Margaret Mitchell (1936)
47. How to Win Friends and Influence People — Dale Carnegie (1936)
48. Idaho: A Guide in Word and Pictures — Federal Writers’ Project (1937)
49. Their Eyes Were Watching God — Zora Neale Hurston (1937)
50. Our Town: A Play — Thornton Wilder (1938)
51. Alcoholics Anonymous — anonymous (1939)
52. The Grapes of Wrath — John Steinbeck (1939)
53. For Whom the Bell Tolls — Ernest Hemingway (1940)
54. Native Son — Richard Wright (1940)
55. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn — Betty Smith (1943)
56. A Treasury of American Folklore — Benjamin A. Botkin (1944)
57. A Street in Bronzeville — Gwendolyn Brooks (1945)
58. The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care — Benjamin Spock (1946)
59. The Iceman Cometh — Eugene O’Neill (1946)
60. Goodnight Moon — Margaret Wise Brown (1947)
61. A Streetcar Named Desire — Tennessee Williams (1947)
62. Sexual Behavior in the Human Male — Alfred C. Kinsey (1948)
63. The Catcher in the Rye — J.D. Salinger (1951)
64. Charlotte’s Web — E.B. White (1952)
65. Invisible Man — Ralph Ellison (1952)
66. Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury (1953)
67. Howl — Allen Ginsberg (1956)
68. Atlas Shrugged — Ayn Rand (1957)
69. The Cat in the Hat — Dr. Seuss (1957)
70. On the Road — Jack Kerouac (1957)
71. To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper Lee (1960)
72. Catch-22 — Joseph Heller (1961)
73. Stranger in a Strange Land — Robert E. Heinlein (1961)
74. Silent Spring — Rachel Carson (1962)
75. The Snowy Day — Ezra Jack Keats (1962)
76. The Feminine Mystique — Betty Friedan (1963)
77. The Fire Next Time — James Baldwin (1963)
78. Where the Wild Things Are — Maurice Sendak (1963)
79. The Autobiography of Malcolm X — Malcolm X and Alex Haley (1965)
80. Unsafe at Any Speed — Ralph Nader (1965)
81. In Cold Blood — Truman Capote (1966)
82. The Double Helix — James D. Watson (1968)
83. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee — Dee Brown (1970)
84. Our Bodies, Ourselves — Boston Women’s Health Book Collective (1971)
85. Cosmos — Carl Sagan (1980)
86. And the Band Played On — Randy Shilts (1987)
87. Beloved — Toni Morrison (1987)
88. The Words of Cesar Chavez — Cesar Chavez (2002)