THE LIST

Non-Fiction of the Past

    Bomber Pilot: A Memoir of World War II

by Philip Ardery

    Cherokee Cavaliers: Forty Years of Cherokee History As Told in the Correspondence of the Ridge-Watie-Boudinot Family

by Edward Everett Dale and Gaston Litton

    Covered Wagon Women, Volume 1: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849

(Covered Wagon Women) 
by Kenneth L. Holmes (Editor), Anne M. Butler (Introduction)

    Covered Wagon Women, Volume 2: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1850

(Coverd Wagon Women) by Kenneth L. Holmes

    Covered Wagon Women 3: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails 1851

(Covered Wagon Women Vol. 3) by Kenneth L. Holmes

    Hearts West: True Stories of Mail-Order Brides on the Frontier

by Chris Enss

    If You Survive: From Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge to the End of World War II, One American Officer’s Riveting True Story

by George Wilson

    Pioneer Women

by Joanna Stratton

    Last Witnesses: Reflections on the Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans

by Erica Harth

    Letters of a Woman Homesteader

by Elinore Pruitt Stewart

    Looking Like the Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese American Internment Camps

by Mary Matsuda Gruenewald


    Mount Allegro: A Memoir of Italian American Life

(New York Classics) by Jerre Gerlando Mangione (Author)

    Nam: The Vietnam War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Fought There

by Mark Baker

    Pacific War Diary, 1942-1945: The Secret Diary of an American Sailor

by James J Fahey

    Pioneer Women: The Lives of Women on the Frontier

by Linda Peavy

Current Non-Fiction

    Diary of an Immigrant: In Pursuit of the American Dream

by Ibrahim Ajibode (Author)

    My Quilts and Me: The Diary of an American Quilter

by Nora McKeown Ezell (Author)

    She’s All Eyes: Memoirs of an Irish-American Daughter

by Maura Conlon-McIvor

    The World Is Flat

[Updated and Expanded]: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman

Short Works/Articles/Prose

    The Best American Essays 2007

by David Foster Wallace (2007) *Please examine other publications from the Best American series.

    The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005

Dave Eggers, Beck
“Corn Pone Opinions” by Mark Twain

    Growing Up Ethnic in America : Contemporary Fiction About Learning to Be American
    Major Problems In The History Of American Families And Children: Documents and Essays

by Anya Jabour (Editor)

    Modern American Memoirs

by Cort Conley (Co-editor), Annie Dillard (Editor)

Poetry
Maya Angelou
Ann Bradstreet
Gwendolyn Brooks
Emily Dickinson
Rita Dove
Paul Laurence Dunbar
T.S. Eliot
Robert Frost
Langston Hughes
Paul Lurence
Dunbar
Phyllis Wheatly
Walt Whitman