Fiction

1. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
2. Crossing to Safety, Wallace Stegner
3. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
4. O Pioneers!, Willa Cather
5. The Caine Mutiny, Herman Wouk
6. Dr. Zhivago, Boris Pasternak
7. Watership Down, Richard Adams
8. Catch 22, Joseph Heller
9. Animal Dreams, Barbara Kingsolver
10. A Separate Peace, John Knowles
11. For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
12. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut

Non-Fiction

1. Abraham Lincoln, The War Years and The Prairie Years, Carl Sandburg
2. In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
3. Admiral of the Ocean Sea, A Life of Christopher Columbus, Samuel Eliot Morrison
4. Shackleton, Roland Hungerford
5. The Blue Nile, The White Nile, Alan Moorhead