War and Peace (1869) Leo Tolstory – An epic novel about Russian aristocratic families during the Napoleonic Wars.
Lonesome Dove (1985) Larry McMurtry – Western novel about retired Texas Rangers on a cattle drive from Texas to Montana
Promises To Keep (1988) George Bernau – Alternative history with President John F Kennedy surviving the assignation in Dallas.
1984 (1949) George Orwell – Dystopian political fiction about totalitarianism, mass surveillance and oppression. Recognized as a classic that impacted twentieth-century thought.
Little House in the Big Woods (1932) Laura Ingalls Wilder – Autobiographical children’s story about life and survival in the American frontier in Wisconsin.
Farmer Boy (1933) Laura Ingalls Wilder – Biographical children’s story about the childhood of the author’s husband during early America in rural New York.
And Brave Men Too (1985) Timothy Lowry – Interviews with Vietnam veterans that received the Congressional Medal of Honor.
