Influential books

Here's a compilation of your responses to the question I asked yesterday about influential books or favorite works of American literature:

• Bill Simmons, The Book of Basketball
• Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (2 people)
  
• Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends
• The Catcher in the Rye (2 people)
  
• Scott Westerfeld, Uglies series
• Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights (2 people)
  
• The Declaration of Independence
• Frank Herbert, Dune
• C. S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia
• Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
•  Hunter S. Thompson, A Generation of Swim
• Thoreau
• Herman Racher, The Summer of '42
• Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Huntly
• Stephanie Meyer, Host
• Bram Stoker, Dracula / Anita Diamant, The Red Tent
• Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
• The Giver
• Dumas, The Three Musketeers
• Paul Bernard, Hell in a Very Small Place
• Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever and Just Listen
• Catch-22
• Gloria Naylor, The Women of Brewster Place
• Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

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