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

Send to Printer The Well-Stocked Bookcase (Book of the Month Club) 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.		Sun Also Rises (Scribner Classics) by Ernest Hemingway
	2.		Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
	3.		A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
	4.		Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
	5.		The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
	6.		The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
	7.		U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money (Library of America) by John Dos Passos
	8.		Light in August by William Faulkner
	9.		Studs Lonigan (Penguin Classics) by James T. Farrell
	10.		Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
	11.		The Postman Always Rings Twice by James Mallahan Cain
	12.		Appointment in Samarra: A Novel by John O'Hara
	13.		Vein of Iron by Ellen Glasgow
	14.		Heaven's My Destination: A Novel by Thornton Wilder
	15.		Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
	16.		The Late George Apley by John P. Marquand
	17.		The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck
	18.		The Day of the Locust (Signet Classic) by Nathanael West
	19.		The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Modern Library) by Carson Mccullers
	20.		Trees: First Book In Awakening Land Trilogy by Conrad Richter
	21.		What Makes Sammy Run? by Budd Schulberg
	22.		Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty
	23.		All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
	24.		The Mountain Lion (A Zia Book) by Jean Stafford
	25.		Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens
	26.		The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition by Norman Mailer
	27.		Other Voices, Other Rooms (Modern Library) by Truman Capote
	28.		The Man with the Golden Arm (50th anniv.) by Nelson Algren
	29.		The Sheltering Sky (P.S.) by Paul Bowles
	30.		The Wall by John Hersey
	31.		The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
	32.		From Here to Eternity by James Jones
	33.		Invisible Man: A Novel by Ralph Ellison
	34.		Lie Down in Darkness by William Styron
	35.		The Recognitions (Twentieth-Century Classics) by William Gaddis
	36.		The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (Dell # D205) by Brian Moore
	37.	?	The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor
	38.		Seize the Day (Penguin Classics) by Saul Bellow
	39.		The Assistant: A Novel by Bernard Malamud
	40.		The Wapshot Chronicle (Perennial Classics) by John Cheever
	41.		The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated by Vladimir Nabokov
	42.		To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Pernnial Moderns Classics) by Harper Lee
	43.		Rabbit, Run by John Updike
	44.		The Magic Christian by Terry Southern
	45.		Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
	46.		The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
	47.		The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
	48.		Little Big Man by Thomas Berger
	49.		A Fan's Notes by Frederick Exley
	50.		Them (Modern Library) by Joyce Carol Oates
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