UNITED STATES HISTORICAL FICTION

PRE-COLONIAL, COLONIAL AND

REVOLUTIONARY PERIODS (1492 – 1783) Roseanne Bittner • Edward Cline • James Fenimore Cooper • Howard Fast • Thomas Fleming • David Garland • Michael Gear • Sally Gunning • Nathaniel Hawthorne • William Martin • Gilbert Morris • Lucia St. Clair Robson • William Sarabande • Jeff Shaara • Beverly Swerling • Elswyth Thane THE NEW NATION (1790-1828), WESTERN EXPANSION & REFORM (1829-1859) Willa Cather • Sandra Dallas • Diane Glancy • Barbara Hambly • Edward P. Jones • Larry McMurtry • Gilbert Morris • David Nevin • Janette Oke • Judith Pella • Lucia St. Clair Robson • William Safire • Jeff Shaara • Beverly Swerling • Janelle Taylor • Brock Thoene • Gore Vidal • Stephanie Grace Whitson CIVIL WAR (1861-1865) Lyn Austin • Howard Bahr • Geraldine Brooks • Max Byrd • Sandra Dallas • Shelby Foote • Charles Frazier • Heather Graham • John Jakes • Paulette Jiles • Michael Kilian • Donald McCaig • Ann McMillan • Miriam Monfredo • Gilbert Morris • Kim Murphy • P.G. Nagle • Owen Parry • James Reasoner • William Safire • Jeff Shaara • Michael Shaara • Lauraine Snelling • Beverly Swerling • Elswyth Thane • Brock Thoene • William Trotter • Harry Turtledove • Robert Penn Warren

RECONSTRUCTION (1866-1877), THE GILDED AGE (1878 – 1889) Gwen Bristow • Max Byrd • Willa Cather • Jon Clinch • Kathy Lynn Emerson • Jim Fergus • Charles Frazier • Robert Hicks • Terry C. Johnston • Maan Meyers • Larry McMurtry • Gilbert Morris • James Michener • Sharan Newman • Judith Pella • Michael Phillips • Upton Sinclair • Lauraine Snelling • Susan Sontag • Lalita Tademy • Shirley Tallman • Mark Twain • Gore Vidal • Richard S. Wheeler

PROGRESSIVE ERA (1890-1913) James Scott Bell • Amy Bloom • Rhys Bowen • Gwen Bristow • Olive Ann Burns • Caleb Carr • Elizabeth Crook • Dianne Day • E. L. Doctorow • Ivan Doig • Theodore Dreiser • Loren Estleman • Henry James • Larry Millett • Stephen Millhauser • Ann Parker • Thomas Pynchon • Upton Sinclair • Betty Smith • Lauraine Snelling • Nancy E. Turner • Mark Twain • Robert W. Walker • Katharine Weber WORLD WAR I (1914-1918) Pat Barker • Andrea Barrett • James Scott Bell • Cindy Bonner • Louise Erdrich • Ernest Hemingway • Gilbert Morris • Michael Phillips • Jeff Shaara • Bodie Thoene • Brock Thoene • Harry Turtledove JAZZ AGE (1918-1929) K.K. Beck • Lyn Cote • James Ellroy • Howard Engel • F. Scott Fitzgerald • John Irving • Sinclair Lewis • Toni Morrison • Betty Smith GREAT DEPRESSION (1929-1939) Lyn Austin • E.L. Doctorow • Thomas Fleming • Sara Gruen • Pete Hamill • Patricia Hickman • Zora Neale Hurston • Paulette Jiles • Leisha Kelly • Mary McGarry Morris • John Steinbeck • Robert Penn Warren • Thomas Wolfe WORLD WAR II (1939-1945) Elizabeth Berg • Lyn Cote • Patrick Culhane • Sandra Dallas • Thomas Fleming • Alan Furst • Emily Grayson • Ernest Hemingway • Homer Hickam • James Jones • Elyse Larson • James Michael Pratt • Sandra Scoppettone • William Trotter • Robert Vaughan • Herman Wouk 2009 Prepared by: Martha Glock, Katy Long, and Jodi Smith Prince William Public Library System