Books That Shaped America
This is one of the 743 lists we use to generate our main The Greatest Books list.
About this list
Library of Congress, 99 Books
As part of a multi-year Library of Congress “Celebration of the Book,” the list – initially 88 books, now expanded by the Library to 100 – and its accompanying exhibition at the Library last June 25-Sept. 25 engendered months of public dialogue. Some 165,400 people attended the exhibit and more than 9,000 responded to a survey about “Books That Shaped America” posted by the Library on its National Book Festival website.
This list was originally published in 2012 and was added to this site about 2 years ago.
