History and Fiction: A Selected Reading List

Bontemps, Arna Wendell. Black Thunder.

Buck, Pearl S. Imperial Woman. 

Butler, David. Lusitania.

Cather, Willa. My Antonia. 

Cather, Willa. O Pioneers. 

Cook, Robin. Sphinx.

Combs, Harry. The Scout. 

Coonts, David. Flight of the Intruder.

Costain, Thomas. The Black Rose. 

Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities. 

Doctorow, E.L. Ragtime. 

Dumas, Akexandre. The Man in the Iron Mask. 

Dumas, Alexandre. The Three Musketeers. 

Eco, Umberto. The Name of the Rose. 

Etulian, Richard W. Telling Western Stories: From Buffalo Bill to Larry McMurtry.

Follett, Ken A. A Dangerous Fortune. 

Forsyth, Frederick. The Day of the Jackal.

Fowles, John. The French Lieutenant's Woman. 

Golden, Arthur. Memoirs of a Geisha. 

Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. 

Hemingway, Ernest. Green Hills of Africa.

Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun also Rises.

Kammen, Robert. Soldiers Falling into Camp.

Llwelyn, Morgan. Bard, the Odyssey of the Irish. 

London, Jack. The Call of the Wild 

Mailer, Norman. Ancient Evenings

Mailer, Norman. The Naked and the Dead

McMurtry, Larry. Anything for Billy. 

Michener, James A. The Bridges at Toko-Ri.

Michener, James A. The Covenant. 

Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. 

Moore, Robin. The Green Berets.

Norris, Frank. The Octopus; A Story of California

OBrian, Patrick. Post Captain. 

Renault, Mary. The King Must Die. 

Roberts, Kenneth Lewis. The Lively Lady. 

Roberts, Kenneth Lewis. Lydia Bailey. 

Roberts, Kenneth. Northwest Passage.

Sanders, Leonard. Act of War; A Novel of Love and Treason.

Saroyan, William. The Human Comedy.

Shute, Nevil. On the Beach. 

Silko, Leslie. Almanac of the Dead. 

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr. August 1914.

Stanwood, Donald A. The Memory of Eva Ryker. 

Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath.

Stone, Irving. Love is Eternal; A Novel about Mary Todd and Abraham Lincoln. 

Styron, William. The Confessions of Nat Turner. 

Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace. 

Vidal, Gore. Burr. 

Waltari, Mike. The Egyptian. 

Wiesel, Elie. The Testament. 

Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey.

Winward, Walter. The Midas Touch.