The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Penguin, $15). The Joad family always haunts me: hollow faces determined to survive the utter ravage of the Dust Bowl. Their Great Depression–era journey down “The Road of Flight”—Route 66—is seminal American reading.
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