Possible Books for Reading Requirement
US History
Part of your requirement for US History is to read about history. You will be required to do a book review
each quarter. The books must come from the list provided. If you find something else in the library that you think will
work, come have it approved by me first and I will also then be able to add it to the list for others to know about.
There are nonfiction and historical fiction listed below. Things to remember about the book requirement:
1. At least 1 of your book choices must be a non fiction work.
2. At least 1 of your book choices must be over 250 pages.
3. If you choose to read a book over 400 pages, it will count for 2 quarters.
4. Don’t forget that you read books in English class that will work for book reviews.
Book reviews will be due the week before the end of the quarter each quarter. Watch my closet door for sign up
sheets.
Do not be put off or limited by the page numbers, find something that interests you and the amount to read won’t
seem that large!!
102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive
Inside the Twin Towers by Jim Dwyer (NF)
Abraham Lincoln by Tanya Savory (NF)
Accomplice, The by Marcus Galloway
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
Act of Valor by Tom Clancy
A Dream Fulfilled by Tanya Savory (NF)
Adrift: Seventy six days lost at sea by Steven Callahan
(NF, 400+)
A Hero for Our Time by Ralph G. Martin (NF, 400+)
A Long Time From Home by Michael Costello
Always Looking Up by Michael J. Fox (NF)
American Genesis by Alden T. Vaughan (NF)
American Sphinx by Joseph J. Ellis (NF, 400+)
An Army of Dawn by Rick Atkinson (NF, 400+)
Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt (NF)
Answer is Never, The by Jocko Weyland (NF)
A Remarkable Woman by Anne Edwards (NF, 400+)
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (NF,
400+)
A Town Called Fury by JA Johnstone
Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq by
Kirsten Holmstedt (NF)
Beyond the Burning Time by Kathryn Lasky
Black Duck by Janet Taylor Lisle
Borden Chantry by Louis L’Amour
Born to Fly by Shane Osborn (NF)
Bozeman Trail, The by Ralph Compton
Brian Piccolo: A Short Season by Jeannie Morris (NF)
Buccaneers, The by Edith Wharton
Bull Run by Paul Fleischman (NF)
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown (NF,
400+)
Cabin Gulch by Zane Grey
Chain Reaction by Darrell Scott (NF)
Children of the River by Linda Crew
Citizen Washington by William Martin (400+)
Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball’s Last Hero
by David Maraniss (NF)
Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac
Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody (NF, 400+)
Crossfire Trail by Louis L’Amour
Day of Battle, The by Rick Atkinson (NF, 400+)
D-Day by Stephen Ambrose (NF, 400+)
Dear Miss Breed by JoAnne Oppenheim (NF)
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel
Foucault (NF)
Don’t Touch Me by Howie Mandel (NF)
Drums of War by Edith Morris Hemingway
Dust Bowl Diary by Ann Marie Low (NF)
Eleanor Roosevelt by J. Williams T. Young (NF)
Elizabeth Taylor: The Last Star by Kitty Kelley (NF,
400+)
Everyday Heroes by Beth Johnson (NF)
Faithful by Stewart O’Nan (NF, 400+)
Fire From the Rock by Sharon Draper
Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley (NF, 400+)
Forrest Gump by Winston Groom
Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis (NF)
Four Hours in My Lai by Micheal Bilton (NF, 400+)
Game, The by Ken Dryden (NF)
Ghost Girl by Torey L. Hayden (NF)
Ghosts of War by Ryan Smithson (NF)
Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides (NF)
Girl in Blue by Ann Rinaldi
Girls Who Went Away, The by Ann Fessler (NF)
Glass Castle, The by Jeannette Walls (NF)
Goodnight Saigon by Charles Henderson (NF, 400+)
Great American Battles by Robert Leckie (NF)
Growing Season, The by Samuel Hynes (NF)
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond (NF, 400+)
Hear the Wind Blow by Mary Downing Hahn
Heat by Mike Lupica
Here Today by Ann Martin
Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews (NF)
How the West Was Won by Louis L’Amour
How They Met by Joey Green (NF)
Iacocca by Lee Iacocca (NF)
I Am a Seal Team Six Warrior by Howard E. Wasdin (NF)
If I Die in a Combat Zone by Tim O’Brien (NF)
Island of Hope, Island of Tears by David M. Brownstone
(NF)
Jackie After Jack by Christopher Andersen (NF, 400+)
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
Kid Rodello by Louis L’Amour
Kilkenny by Louis L’Amour
Killing Lincoln by Bill O’Reilly (NF)
Let’s Roll by Lisa Beamer (NF)
Letters My Mother Never Read by Jerri Diane Sueck (NF)
Lies Across America by James W. Leowen (NF, 400+)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (400+)
Lucky by Alice Sebold (NF)
Making the Most of Your Life by John Langan (NF)
Man From Skibbereen, The by Louis L’Amour
Man Who Fed the World, The by Leon Hesser (NF)
Martin Luther King, Jr. by Adam Fairclough (NF)
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by
Nathanial Philbrick (NF, 400+)
Memorial, The by James Amos
Message from Nam by Danielle Steel
Middle of Everywhere, The by Mary Pipher (NF, 400+)
Military Intelligence Blunders by Colonel John Hughes
Wilson (NF)
Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My
Long Trek Home by Nando Parrado (NF)
Movie Made America by Robert Sklar (NF)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick
Douglass (NF)
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
One Child by Torey Hayden (NF)
October Sky by Homer Hickam (NF, 400+)
October Surprise by Gary Sick (NF)
Orphan of Ellis Island, The by Elvira Woodruff
OSS Commando: Final Option by Charles W. Sasser
Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids, The by
Alexandra Robbins (NF, 400+)
Pacific, The by Hugh Ambrose (NF, 400+)
Passionate Sage by Joseph Ellis (NF)
People of the Earth by W. Michael Gear (400+)
People of the Mesa by Charlotte Prentiss (400+)
People of the Wolf by W. Michael Gear (400+)
Perfect Storm, The by Sebastian Junger (NF)
Petticoat Affair, The by John F. Marszalek (NF)
Purple Heart by Patricia McCormick
Quakertown by Lee Martin
Race For the Sky by Dan Gutman
Rachel Smiles by Darrell Scott (NF)
Rachel’s Tears by Beth Nimmo and Darrell Scott (NF)
Real All Americans, The by Sally Jenkins (NF)
Recon Scout by Fred H. Salter
Rhett Butler’s People by Donald McCaig (400+)
Rickenbacker: An Autobiography by Eddie Rickenbacker
(NF, 400+)
Rides a Stranger by Bill Brooks
Ruling Race, The by James Oakes (NF)
Savage Gun, The by Jory Sherman
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand (NF, 400+)
Shadow Rider by Jory Sherman
Shalako by Louis L’Amour
Showdown Trail by Louis L’Amour
Sioux Indian Wars by Cyrus Townshend Brady (NF,
400+)
Sitting Bull by Gary C. Anderson (NF)
Slave and Citizen by Nathan Irvin Huggins (NF)
Slave Dancer, The by Paula Fox
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
Sunrise over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers
Take Your Best Shot by Austin Gutwein (NF)
Tecumseh by R. David Edmunds (NF)
There but for the Grace of God: Survivors of the 20th
Century’s Infamous Serial Killers by Fred Rosen (NF)
Things They Carried, The by Tim O’Brien (NF)
‘Tis: A Memoir by Frank McCourt (NF)
To Hell and Back by Audie Murphy
Trail of the Apache by Elmore Leonard
Trouble Creek by Ralph Cotton
True Grit by Charles Portis
Truman by David McCullough (NF, 400+)
Under and Alone: The True Story of the Undercover
Agent Who Infiltrated America’s Most Violent Outlaw
Motorcycle Gang by William Queen (NF)
Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Walkers of the Wind by William Sarabande (400+)
Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals (NF)
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Way We Never Were, The by Stephanie Coontz (NF)
Westward the Tide by Louis L’Amour
We Were Soldiers Once and Young by Harold G. Moore
(NF, 400+)
Where the Long Grass Grows by Louis L’Amour
Why Didn’t You Get Me Out? By Frank Anton (NF)
Witch of Blackbird Pond, The by Elizabeth George Speare
With Their Eyes by Annie Thomas (NF)
Worst Hard Time, The by Timothy Egan (NF)