Bram Stoker was Irish and wrote in the UK.

But I have to agree with your estimate of Hubbard's influence. Surely far greater than Allen Ginsberg's, Nathaniel Hawthorne's, Stephen Crane's, etc.

Q is right to criticize the complete omission of dime novels other than "Mark, the Match Boy."

And, yes, the Book of Mormon should be listed.

In any case, where's Lomax's "Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads" (1910)? Clearly more influential than, say, Williams's "Spring and All."

If classic fiction is your bag, where's "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque," by Edgar Allen Poe? Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises" came more than a dozen years before "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and made him (and his style) famous. "A Farewell to Arms" cemented it in 1929.

If Eugene O'Neill helped shape America, why not pick an earlier play like "Beyond the Horizon," which won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1920? Or "Anna Christie," which did the same in 1922?

And wait just a cotton-pickin' minute! Where are "All the President's Men" and "The Pentagon Papers"?

And "Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History," by Fawn M. Brodie (1974). (You know, dishing the alleged dirt on Tom and Sallie.)