The Well-Stocked Bookcase (Book of the Month Club)

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Sixty novels, published between 1926 and 1986, whose, according to the Book of the Month Club editorial board, "impact still endures — novels that have changed how we Americans talk, think, write, feel and see ourselves." The Book of the Month Club chose to compile a list of 60 books in celebration of the club’s 60th anniversary.

The list is in chronological order. Trilogies are listed as one book, by the date of the first volume. Two of the trilogies are available in one-volume editions and are listed as such. For Trees/Land/Town by Conrad Richter, only the first volume is listed.

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  1. 1.
    Sun Also Rises (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  2. 2.
    Death Comes for the Archbishop
    by Willa Cather

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  3. 3.
    A Farewell to Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  4. 4.
    Look Homeward, Angel
    by Thomas Wolfe

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  5. 5.
    The Sound and the Fury
    by William Faulkner

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  6. 6.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by Dashiell Hammett

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  7. 8.
    Light in August
    by William Faulkner

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  8. 9.
    Studs Lonigan (Penguin Classics)
    by James T. Farrell

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  9. 10.
    Tender Is the Night
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  10. 11.
    The Postman Always Rings Twice
    by James Mallahan Cain

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  11. 12.
    Appointment in Samarra: A Novel
    by John O'Hara

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  12. 13.
    Vein of Iron
    by Ellen Glasgow

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  13. 14.
    Heaven's My Destination: A Novel
    by Thornton Wilder

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  14. 15.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell

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  15. 16.
    The Late George Apley
    by John P. Marquand

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  16. 17.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

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  17. 18.
    The Day of the Locust (Signet Classic)
    by Nathanael West

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  18. 19.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Modern Library)
    by Carson Mccullers

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  19. 20.
    Trees: First Book In Awakening Land Trilogy
    by Conrad Richter

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  20. 21.
    What Makes Sammy Run?
    by Budd Schulberg

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  21. 22.
    Delta Wedding
    by Eudora Welty

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  22. 23.
    All the King's Men
    by Robert Penn Warren

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  23. 24.
    The Mountain Lion (A Zia Book)
    by Jean Stafford

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  24. 25.
    Guard of Honor
    by James Gould Cozzens

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  25. 26.
    The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition
    by Norman Mailer

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  26. 27.
    Other Voices, Other Rooms (Modern Library)
    by Truman Capote

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  27. 28.
    The Man with the Golden Arm (50th anniv.)
    by Nelson Algren

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  28. 29.
    The Sheltering Sky (P.S.)
    by Paul Bowles

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  29. 30.
    The Wall
    by John Hersey

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  30. 31.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J.D. Salinger

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  31. 32.
    From Here to Eternity
    by James Jones

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  32. 33.
    Invisible Man: A Novel
    by Ralph Ellison

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  33. 34.
    Lie Down in Darkness
    by William Styron

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  34. 35.
    The Recognitions (Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by William Gaddis

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  35. 36.
    The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (Dell # D205)
    by Brian Moore

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    The Last Hurrah
    by Edwin O'Connor

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  37. 38.
    Seize the Day (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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  38. 39.
    The Assistant: A Novel
    by Bernard Malamud

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  39. 40.
    The Wapshot Chronicle (Perennial Classics)
    by John Cheever

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  40. 41.
    The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  42. 43.
    Rabbit, Run
    by John Updike

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  43. 44.
    The Magic Christian
    by Terry Southern

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  44. 45.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

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  45. 46.
    The Moviegoer
    by Walker Percy

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  46. 47.
    The Bell Jar
    by Sylvia Plath

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  47. 48.
    Little Big Man
    by Thomas Berger

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  48. 49.
    A Fan's Notes
    by Frederick Exley

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  49. 50.
    Them (Modern Library)
    by Joyce Carol Oates

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Created by ggchickapee on Aug 22, 2006.
 

Comments

javert
Arlington

Untitled — 1 year ago

This list is extremely southern.


ggchickapee
Portland

American only — 2 years ago

The Book of the Month Club limited its selection to American authors.