Top ten books that explore pioneer life

Lucy Inglis is a historian and novelist. One of her ten favorite books that explore pioneer life, as shared at the Guardian:Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Or to give its full title: The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of