First Semester Reading List

One Novel From the Following List:

(Other novels may be substituted but must be approved by teacher first;
click on the author’s name to be taken to a review of the book at Amazon.com)

Young Adult Adult Alternate History

Young Adult

1. Soldier's Heart : Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers
   by Gary Paulsen
2. Echoes of Andersonville
   by Robert Diel Dean
3. A House Divided (A Chaparral Book)
   by Marj Gurasich, Marjorie A. Gurasich
4. Nashville 1864 : The Dying of the Light
   by Madison Jones
5. Thee, Hannah!
   by Marguerite De Angeli
6. Across Five Aprils
   by Irene Hunt
7. Margaret Mitchell
8. The Last Full Measure
   by Jeff M. Shaara
9. Gods and Generals
   by Jeff M. Shaara
10. Raintree County
    by Jr., Ross Lockridge, Ross Lockridge
11. The Red Badge of Courage
    by Stephen Crane
12. Uncle Tom's Cabin
    by Harriet Beecher Stowe
13. Shiloh
    by Shelby Foote
14. Marching Through Culpeper : A Novel of Culpeper, Virginia, Crossroads of the Civil War
    by Virginia Beard Morton
15. Long Remember
    by MacKinlay Kantor
16. Andersonville
    by MacKinlay Kantor
17. Cold Mountain
    by Charles Frazier
18. The Year of Jubilo : A Novel of the Civil War
    by Howard Bahr
19. The Black Flower : A Novel of the Civil War
    by Howard Bahr
20. Promise of Glory : A Novel of Antietam
    by C. X. Moreau
21. Confederates
    by Thomas Keneally
22. Jacob's Ladder : A Story of Virginia During the War
    by Donald McCaig, Robert E. Lee
23. Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty (Penguin Classics)
    by Gary Scharnhorst (Editor), John William De Forest
24. In the Midst of Life : Tales of Soldiers and Civilians
    by Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
25. Deep in the Heart
    by E. Randall Floyd, Randall E. Floyd
26. The Unvanquished : The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner
27. Lincoln : A Novel
    by Gore Vidal
28. We Are Your Sisters : Black Women in the Nineteenth Century
    by Dorothy Sterling (Editor), Mary Helen Washington
29. The Confessions of Nat Turner
    by William Styron
30. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    by Mark Twain
31. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
    by Harriet A. Jacobs
32. In the Fall
    by Jeffrey Lent
33. A Very Violent Rebel : The Civil War Diary of Ellen Renshaw House (Voices of the Civil War)
    by Ellen Renshaw House
34. Look Away
    by Harold W. Coyle
35. A Silence After Trumpets : The Story of Sarah Buchanan Preston
    by Frances Herman Jackson

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Alternate History

1. Gettysburg : An Alternate History
   by Peter G. Tsouras
2. The Guns of the South : A Novel of the Civil War
   by Harry Turtledove
3. How Few Remain
   by Harry Turtledove
4. Return for Confederate Victory
   by Bradley Burch

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