This isn’t as scientific as I’d like, but given the amount of comments I received and the pool of books selected in those comments, coupled with informal polls offline, I have cobbled together a list of twenty books America can’t live without, in no particular order. Here’s where you come in. Let’s put them order. Vote for your top five in the comments. I will tally the votes and rank the books from 1-20.

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Collected Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• The Bible
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• The Once and Future King by T.H. White
• Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• The Short Stories of Flannery O’Connor by Flannery O’Connor
• The Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
• For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Remember to select only five books, and it would be helpful if you ranked them from 1-5 as well. More votes for a certain book for number one as opposed to number five might help me break ties.

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