History Book Group books read
Oct-12 Undaunted Courage / Stephen Ambrose Nov-12 1812: the war that forged a nation / Walter r. Borneman Dec-12 Gods and Generals / Jeff Shaara Jan-13 Unbroken / Laura Hillenbrand Feb-13 A Bridge Too Far / Cornelius Ryan OR It Never Snows in September / Robert Kershaw Mar-13 The Things They Carried / Tim O'Brien Apr-13 No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden / Mark Owen and Kevin Maurer May-13 Killing Lincoln / Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard Sep-13 A Stillness At Appomattox / Bruce Catton Oct-13 The Boys in the Boat / Daniel James Brown Nov-13 Little House on the Prairie / Laura Ingalls Wilder Dec-13 The Worst Hard Time / Timothy Egan Mar-14 Code Talker / Chester Nez Apr-14 Prince / Machievelli May-14 Hard Times / Studs Terkel Jun-14 The Guns of August / Barbara Tuchman Sep-14 George Washington's Secret Six : the spy ring that saved the American Revolution / Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger OR Washington's Spies / Alex Rose Oct-14 One summer : America, 1927 / Bill Bryson Nov-14 Dog who could fly / Damien Lewis Dec-14 Lincoln's Boys / Joshua Zeitz Jan-15 Armageddon / Max Hastings Feb-15 Basilica: The Splendid and the Scandal, building St. Peter's / R.A. Scotti Mar-15 Canceled / weather Apr-15 Grant comes east : a novel of the Civil War / Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen May-15 The Rough Riders ; An autobiography / Theodore Roosevelt Jun-15 Guns, Germs & Steel: the fates of human societies /Jared Diamond Sep-15 The secret rooms :a true story of a haunted castle, a plotting duchess, and a family secret / Catherine Bailey.
Oct-15 The sound of wings :the life of Amelia Earhart / Mary S. Lovell. Nov-15 Mayflower : a story of courage, community, and war / Nathaniel Philbrick. Dec-15 Citizen soldiers : the U.S. Army from the Normandy beaches to the Bulge to the surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944-May 7, 1945 / Stephen E. Ambrose. Jan-16 Cleopatra : a life / Stacy Schiff. Feb-16 All quiet on the western front / Erich Maria Remarque. Mar-16 Over the edge of the world : Magellan’s terrifying circumnavigation of the globe / Laurence Bergreen.
Apr-16 Joker one : a Marine platoon’s story of courage, leadership, and brotherhood / Donovan Campbell. May-16 The rape of Nanking : the forgotten holocaust of World War II / Iris Chang. Jun-16 The ghost map : the story of London’s most terrifying epidemic–and how it changed science, cities, and the modern world / Steven Johnson. Sep-16 Revenant: a novel by Michael Punke. Oct-16 Band of brothers : E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest /Stephen E. Ambrose. Nov-16 Columbus : the four voyages /Laurence Bergreen. Dec-16 Whirlwind :the American Revolution and the war that won it /John Ferling. Jan-17 The age of Napoleon. J C Herold. Feb-17 The next 100 years : a forecast for the 21st century / George Friedman. Mar-17 Rubicon : the last years of the Roman Republic / Tom Holland. Apr-17 The life of Elizabeth I / Alison Weir. May-17 Cyber war : the next threat to national security and what to do about it / Richard A. Clarke and Robert K. Knake. Jun-17 In the company of soldiers : a chronicle of combat / Rick Atkinson. Oct-17 A brilliant solution : inventing the American Constitution / Carol Berkin. Nov-17 The bad – ass librarians of Timbuktu : and their race to save the world’s most precious manuscripts / Joshua Hammer. Dec-17 The strongest tribe : war, politics, and the endgame in Iraq / Bing West. Jan-18 The grid : the fraying wires between Americans and our energy future / Gretchen Bakke. Feb-18 Gates of fire : an epic novel of the Battle of Thermopylae / Steven Pressfield. Mar-18 Dead wake : the last crossing of the Lusitania / Erik Larson. Apr-18 Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race / Margot Lee Shetterly. May-18 The forever war / Dexter Filkins. Jun-18 Helmet for my pillow : from Parris island to the Pacific : a young marine’s stirring account of combat in World War II / Robert Leckie. Sep-18 The last stand : Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn / Nathaniel Philbrick . Oct-18 Catherine the Great : portrait of a woman / Robert K. Massie. Nov-18 The devil in the white city : murder , magic , and madness at the fair that changed America / Erik Larson.
Dec-18 The Oregon Trail : a new American journey / Rinker Buck.* Jan-19 Nightingales : the extraordinary upbringing and curious life of Miss Florence Nightingale / Gillian Gill.
Feb-19 In the heart of the sea : the tragedy of the whaleship Essex / Nathaniel Philbrick. Mar-19 Norse mythology / Neil Gaiman . Apr-19 Nothing like it in the world : the men who built the transcontinental railroad, 1863-1869 / Stephen E. Ambrose. May-19 A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier / Ishmael Beah. Jun-19 Killers of the Flower Moon : the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI / David Grann. Sep-19 In the garden of beasts : love, terror, and an American family in Hitler's Berlin / Erik Larson. Oct-19 Kon-Tiki : across the Pacific by raft / Thor Heyerdahl ; translated by F.H. Lyon. Nov-19 The alienist / Caleb Carr. Dec-19 The coldest winter : America and the Korean War / David Halberstam. Jan-20 In a sunburned country / Bill Bryson. Feb-20 Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln / Doris Kearns . Mar-20 Isaac' s storm : a man, a time, and the deadliest hurricane in history / Erik Larson . Apr-20 The path between the seas : the creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 / David McCullough. May-20 King Leopold' s ghost : a story of greed , terror, and heroism in colonial Africa / Adam Hochschild Jun-20 The lost city of the Monkey God : a true story / Douglas Preston.