Summer Reading
2009 May 31
I’m sure there are several books already listed on your summer reading list, but here are a few more good books to add onto it. Many of the books are good resources to find information on 18th to the 20th Century life. As well as historian’s perspective on the wars, people and conditions that impacted them.
| Biographies: | |
| A Black Woman’s Civil War Memoirs | by: Susie King Taylor |
| A Journal of the Plague Year | by: Daniel Defoe |
| Anne Frank | by: Otto H. Frank |
| Army Life in a Black Regiment | by: Thomas Wentworth Higginson |
| Army Life in Virginia | by: G.G. Benedict and Edited by: Eric Ward |
| A Soldier’s Journal | by: David Rothbart |
| Inside the Army of the Potomac | by: J. Gregory Acken |
| Letters from an American Farmer | by: J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur |
| Letters Home | by: Sally Hitchcock Pullman |
| Mary Chesnut’s Civil War | by: C. Vann Woodward |
| Memoirs of a Geisha | by: Arthur Golden |
| Memoir of A Revolutionary Soldier | by: Joseph Plumb Martin |
| Sarah Morgan | by: Charles East |
| The American Revolutionaries | by: Milton Meltzer |
| The Battle for Pusan A Memoir | by: Addison Terry |
| The Complete Civil War Journal | by: Thomas Wentworth Higginson |
| The Private Mary Chesnut | by: C.Vann Woodward |
| This Glorious Struggle | by: Edward G. Lengel |
| Well Satisfied with My Position | by Michael A. Flannery |
| Novels: | |
| 1776 | by: David McCullough |
| A Break with Charity | by: Ann Rinaldi |
| Bold Journey | by: Charles Bohner |
| Brave Companions | by: David McCullough |
| Georgianna | by: Amanda Foreman |
| Hornblower: Beat to Quarters | by: C.S. Forester |
| Innocent Traitor | by: Alison Weir |
| John Adams | by: David McCullough |
| Lady Jane Grey | by: Eric Ives |
| Love and Louis XIV | by: Antonia Fraser |
| Marie Antoinette | by: Antonia Fraser |
| Mary Boleyn | by: Josephine Wilkinson |
| Mayflower | by: Nathaniel Philbrick |
| Nine Days A Queen | by: Ann Rinaldi |
| The Boleyn Inheritance | by: Philippa Gregory |
| The Heretic’s Daughter | by: Kathleen Kent |
| The Name of the Rose | by: Umberto Eco |
| The Other Boleyn Girl | by: Philippa Gregory |
| The Other Queen | by: Philippa Gregory |
| The Princes In the Tower | by: Alison Weir |
| The Tudor Queens of England | by: David Loades |
| The Wars of the Roses | by: Alison Weir |
| White Doves at Morning | by: James Lee Burke |
| Year of Wonders | by: Geraldine Brooks |
