20 Books that Changed America

So this is a list of books that supposedly changed America forever, in order of influence. I've never read any of them all the way through, but I've read parts of a good many of them. I'm in the process of reading one, though. I should have read that one many years ago...I'm glad that it's on this list though. It is the best book.

Common Sense (1776) by Thomas Paine

A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792) by Mary Wollstonecraft

The Book of Mormon (1830)

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) by

Frederick Douglass

The Communist Manifesto (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Leaves of Grass (1855) by Walt Whitman

The Interpretation of Dreams (1900) by Sigmund Freud

The Clansman (1905) by Thomas Dixon, Jr.

The Jungle (1906) by Upton Sinclair

The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936) by John

Maynard Keynes

The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck

Invisible Man (1952) by Ralph Ellison

Howl (1956) by Allen Ginsberg

Atlas Shrugged (1957) by Ayn Rand

Silent Spring (1962) by Rachel Carson

The Feminine Mystique (1963) by Betty Friedan

The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) by Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley

On Death and Dying (1969) by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

All the President’s Men (1974) by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein