Research Paper Book Lists
Early America/Revolutionary War
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Pre-Civil War
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Roots by Alex Haley
Civil War/Reconstruction
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara(The Battle of Gettysburg)
North and South by John Jakes
Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell
C old Mountainby Charles Frazier
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Settling of the West
Centennial by John Steinbeck
Wide Open by Larry Bjornson
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Watch For Me on the Mountain by Forrest Carter
Gilded Age/Late 1800’s
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Beloved by Toni Morrison
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Early 1900’s
Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
World War I
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemmingway
1920’s
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1930’s/Great Depression
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
1940’s/World War II
Hiroshima by John Hersey
Post- World War II
The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (Civil Rights)