 Robert Frost received his first Pulitzer Prize for his 1923 book of poetry, New Hampshire. Here are more books from the Library of Congress's list of 100 books that shaped America. F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby was published in 1925. Poet Langston Hughes' poetry collection, The Weary Blues, was released in the same year. In 1929, William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury was published.