Lists of Bests: Well-Stocked Bookcase's "Book-of-the-Month-Club" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/48251 How/Why this list was created: "Last year, during the celebration of the Book-of-the-Month Club's 60th anniversary, and in anticipation of the Year of the Reader being sponsored in 1987 by The Library of Congress, we six members of the Club's Editorial Board [Clifton Fadiman, John K. Hutchens, David Willis McCullough, Gloria Norris, Mordecai Richler, and Wilfred Sheed] decided to sort through our own mental bookcases and select 60 novels, published between 1926 and 1986, whose impact still endures — novels that have changed how we Americans talk, think, write, feel and see ourselves. We gathered for an informal dinner and compared lists." — From the introduction by Gloria Norris Additional Rules: * No non-American authors were to be included * No members of the Editorial Board were to be included * No author would be represented by more than one novel with the exception of Faulkner and Hemingway) ****There are 64 Books listed because there are 2 sets of trilogies...The Awakening Land Trilogy (Conrad Richter) and The U. S. A. Trilogy (John Dos Passos) Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:28:16 GMT en-us 0 50 64 50 0 The Accidental Tourist http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/558232 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/558232"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099480018.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anne Tyler</div> All the King's Men http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/686679 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/686679"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0156012952.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Penn Warren</div> Angle of Repose (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/977125 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/977125"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141185473.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Wallace Stegner</div> Appointment in Samarra http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3459022 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3459022"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/110-J01Lo8L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John O'Hara</div> The Assistant: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59045 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59045"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374504849.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bernard Malamud</div> The Bell Jar http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16296 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16296"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0571081789.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sylvia Plath</div> Burr: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9171 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9171"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375708731.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gore Vidal</div> Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19589 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19589"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684865130.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Heller</div> The Catcher in the Rye http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7091 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7091"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316769177.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.D. Salinger</div> The Day of the Locust (Signet Classic) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13897 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13897"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451523482.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nathanael West</div> Death Comes for the Archbishop http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2065076 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2065076"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1844083721.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Willa Cather</div> Delta Wedding (A Harvest/Hbj Book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/41251 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/41251"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156252805.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1119998772_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eudora Welty</div> A Fan's Notes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18622 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18622"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679720766.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114009736_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frederick Exley</div> A Farewell to Arms (Scribner Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56513 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56513"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684837889.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> A Flag for Sunrise http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2613239 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2613239"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0330370979.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Stone</div> From Here to Eternity http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10112 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10112"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385333641.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056439136_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Jones</div> Gone with the Wind http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2795665 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2795665"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01x13H3RvmL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Mitchell</div> The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/466410 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/466410"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143039431.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> Guard of Honor http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65246 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65246"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0156376091.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1074205722_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Gould Cozzens</div> The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2337777 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2337777"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618084746.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carson McCullers</div> Heaven's My Destination: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/701808 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/701808"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060088893.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thornton Wilder</div> Invisible Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18757 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18757"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679732764.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464902_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ralph Ellison</div> The Last Hurrah http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/691960 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/691960"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316626597.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edwin O'Connor</div> The Late George Apley http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/434111 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/434111"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316735671.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John P. Marquand</div> Lie Down in Darkness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18801 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18801"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679735976.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Styron</div> Light in August http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1993778 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1993778"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099283158.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> Little Big Man (Panther) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2476568 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2476568"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1860466419.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Berger</div> Lolita (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3460 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3460"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141182539.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V47020293_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vladimir Nabokov</div> The lonely passion of Judith Hearne http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16490 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16490"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0586087583.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Brian Moore</div> Look Homeward, Angel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2022548 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2022548"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743297318.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Wolfe</div> The Magic Christian http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/130280 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/130280"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0802134653.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056491839_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Terry Southern</div> The Maltese Falcon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18648 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18648"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679722645.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1100853900_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dashiell Hammett</div> The Man with the Golden Arm ("Rebel Inc." Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3042526 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3042526"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/011E5656MWL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nelson Algren</div> The Mountain Lion (A Zia Book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/691385 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/691385"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0292751362.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean Stafford</div> The Moviegoer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2423672 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2423672"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0413773272.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Walker Percy</div> The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5989 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5989"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312265050.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Norman Mailer</div> Nickel Mountain (New Directions Paperbook) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2927820 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2927820"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11D0umjH7SL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Gardner</div> Other Voices, Other Rooms http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18897 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18897"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679745645.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Truman Capote</div> The Postman Always Rings Twice http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/38655 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/38655"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679723250.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464881_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James M. Cain</div> Rabbit, Run http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2732762 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2732762"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141187832.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Updike</div> Ragtime http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1650620 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1650620"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0141188170.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E.L. Doctorow</div> The Recognitions (Twentieth-Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2796 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2796"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140187081.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138676355_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Gaddis</div> Seize the Day http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3365369 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3365369"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01WRxFfZzFL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Saul Bellow</div> The Sheltering Sky http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2338217 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2338217"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0141187778.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V57067948_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Bowles</div> Slaughterhouse 5 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2680004 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2680004"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099800209.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kurt Vonnegut</div> Song of Solomon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2534083 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2534083"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099768410.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056417714_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Toni Morrison</div> The Sound and the Fury http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1537968 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1537968"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0099475014.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> Studs Lonigan (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23703 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23703"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0141186739.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138676360_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James T. Farrell</div> Sun Also Rises (Scribner Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/74862 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/74862"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684830515.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> Tender Is the Night (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2336216 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2336216"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141183594.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F.Scott Fitzgerald</div>