The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Pennsylvania

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
4 The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger 1951 American English
174 Rabbit, Run John Updike 1960 American English
237 The Corrections Jonathan Franzen 2001 American English
483 The Civil War Shelby Foote 1958 American English
668 Rabbit Redux John Updike 1971 American English
686 Rabbit Is Rich John Updike 1981 American English
689 The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin 1791 American English
713 The Killer Angels Michael Shaara 1974 American English
871 Wieland Charles Brockden Brown 1798 American English
1060 Fun Home Alison Bechdel 2006 American English
1443 Mason & Dixon Thomas Pynchon 1997 American English
1693 The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold 2002 American English
2261 Appointment in Samarra John O'Hara 1934 American English
2389 Breathing Lessons Anne Tyler 1988 American English
3424 Common Sense Thomas Paine 1776 British English
4169 The History of the Standard Oil Company Ida Tarbell 1904 American English
4385 Flowers in the Attic V. C. Andrews 1979 American English
4594 Ten North Frederick John O'Hara 1955 American English
4900 Notes Of Debates In The Federal Convention Of 1787 James Madison 1840 American English
5170 Edith's Diary Patricia Highsmith 1977 American English
5307 Lee's Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1943 American English
5331 The Perks Of Being A Wallflower Stephen Chbosky 1999 American English
5359 Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin 2005 American English
5530 The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store James McBride 2023 American English
5720 Manhood For Amateurs Michael Chabon 2009 American English
6005 Waiting For Nothing And Other Writings Tom Kromer 1935 American English
6005 Testimony Charles Reznikoff 1965 American English
6243 The Chaneysville Incident David Bradley 1981 American English
6382 The Principles Of Scientific Management Frederick Winslow Taylor 1911 American English
6599 Benjamin Franklin Carl Van Doren 1938 American English
6767 Experiments And Observations On Electricity Benjamin Franklin 1751 American English
6767 Poor Richard Improved, The Way To Wealth Benjamin Franklin 1758 American English
6839 The Awakening Of Helena Ritchie Margaret Deland 1906 American English
6882 Lincoln at Gettysburg Garry Wills 1992 American English
6937 Century Of Struggle Eleanor Flexner 1959 American English
6957 The Fifth Risk Michael M. Lewis 2018 American English
7099 The Dutch House Ann Patchett 2019 American English
7169 The Man In Lower Ten Mary Roberts Rinehart 1909 American English
7680 Master Slave Husband Wife Ilyon Woo 2023 Unknown English
8259 Christine Stephen King 1983 American English
8424 Coming Apart Charles Murray 2012 American English
8574 Let The Trumpet Sound Stephen B. Oates 1982 American English
8770 John Adams David McCullough 2001 American English
8927 Hidden America Jeanne Marie Laskas 2012 American English
9192 American Rust Philipp Meyer 2009 American English
9609 The 9/11 Commission Report 9/11 Commission 2004 American English
9960 The Book Of Delights Ross Gay 2019 American English
10009 Edgar Allan Poe Arthur Hobson Quinn 1941 American English
10454 Washington's Crossing David Hackett Fischer 2004 American English
10529 Beautyland Marie-Helene Bertino 2024 Unknown English
10581 Take What You Need Idra Novey 2023 American English
10605 The Unsettled Ayana Mathis 2023 American English
10789 The New Negro Jeffrey C. Stewart 2018 American English
10901 America’s Women Gail Collins 2003 American English
10925 Women Don’t Ask Linda Babcock, Sara Laschever 2003 American English
10976 The Two Mile Time Machine Richard Alley 2000 American English
11292 The Girls Who Went Away Ann Fessler 2006 American English
11297 Such A Fun Age Kiley Reid 2019 American English
11362 America's God Mark Noll 2002 American English
11426 Me And Earl And The Dying Girl Jesse Andrews 2012 American English
11438 Philadelphia fire John Edgar Wideman 1990 American English
11455 The Town Conrad Richter 1950 American English
11582 A Midwife's Story Penny Armstrong, Sheryl Feldman 1986 American English
11663 Brothers And Keepers John Edgar Wideman 1984 American English
11663 American Dialogue Joseph Ellis 2018 American English
11663 Looking For Lorraine Imani Perry 2018 Unknown English
11854 Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation Allen Guelzo 2004 American English
11941 Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed William Cabell Bruce 1917 American English
12084 Sweet Summer Bebe Moore Campbell 1989 American English
12179 The Centaur John Updike 1963 American English
12316 Our Savage Neighbors Peter Silver 2008 Unknown English
12393 Abraham Lincoln Michael Burlingame 2008 American English
12470 And The Pursuit Of Happiness Maira Kalman 2010 American English
13259 She’s Not There Jennifer Finney Boylan 2003 American English
13506 Straight Man Richard Russo 1997 American English
13592 The School For Good Mothers Jessamine Chan 2022 American English
13749 The Enchantments Of Mammon Eugene McCarraher 2019 American English
13772 When We Get There Shauna Seliy 2008 Unknown English
13799 The Winged Seed Li-Young Lee 1995 American English
14019 The Maples Stories John Updike 2009 American English
14065 Thomas Jefferson Thomas S. Kidd 2022 Unknown English
14229 Margaret Mead Elesha Coffman Unknown English
14348 The Waters of Kronos Conrad Richter 1960 American English
14390 The Lockwood Concern John O'Hara 1965 American English
14589 Last Call Elon Green 2021 Unknown English
14929 The Amazing Interlude Mary Roberts Rinehart 1918 American English
14935 The Amenities Of Book Collecting A. Edward Newton 1918 American English
14985 Maniac Magee Jerry Spinelli 1990 American English
14985 The Secret Lives Of Church Ladies Deesha Philyaw 2020 American English
15764 Kitty Foyle Christopher Morley 1939 American English
15827 Rabbit Angstrom John Updike 1960 American English
15876 Poems By Walt Whitman Walt Whitman 1886 American English
15861 On Revolution Hannah Arendt 1963 American English
15916 The life and letters of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin 1817 American English
15916 From The Terrace John O'Hara 1958 American English
15916 The Shame Of The Cities Lincoln Steffens 1904 American English
15916 An Economic Interpretation Of The Constitution Of The United States Charles A. Beard 1913 American English
15916 The Forest And The Fort Hervey Allen 1943 American English
15916 Bedford Village Hervey Allen 1944 American English
15916 Conceived In Liberty Howard Fast 1945 American English
15916 Citizen Tom Paine Howard Fast 1943 American English
15916 Janice Meredith Paul Leicester Ford 1899 American English
15916 Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker S. Weir Mitchell 1896 American English
15916 Tree Of Liberty Elizabeth Page 1939 Unknown English
15916 Long Remember MacKinlay Kantor 1934 American English
16771 The Collected Tales Of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe 1908 American English
16721 The Doctrine And Covenants The Doctrine and Covenants 1835 American English
17163 Self-Consciousness John Updike 1989 American English
17163 An American Childhood Annie Dillard 1987 American English
17163 Wolf Hollow Lauren Wolk 2016 American English
17163 Bring The Jubilee Ward Moore 1953 American English
17163 Dawn Of The Dead George Romero 1978 American Unknown
17163 An Echo In The Bone Diana Gabaldon 2009 American English
17163 Written In My Own Heart's Blood Diana Gabaldon 2014 American English
17163 Covered With Night Nicole Eustace 2021 American English
17163 Modern Chivalry Hugh Henry Brackenridge 1792 American English
17163 The Quaker City, Or The Monks Of Monk Hall George Lippard 1845 American English
17163 My Broken Language Quiara Alegría Hudes 2021 American English
17163 The Invention Of Wings Sue Monk Kidd 2014 American English
17163 Benjamin Franklin Walter Isaacson 2003 American English