American Civil War Booklist
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Book recommendations pertaining to the American Civil War.
| Book Title | Author | PubDate | Reading Age | Time Period | Time Frame | Geographic Area | Country | Topic | Genre | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Nation Without Borders: The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830-1910 | Freeman, Joshua | 2012 | YA | Industrial Age | 1830-1910 | North America | United States | American Civil War | NF | B |
| Two Miserable Presidents: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the Civil War | Sheinkin, Steve | 2015 | YA UMG | Industrial Age | 1856-1865 | North America | United States | Abraham Lincoln American Civil War | NF | B |
| Blood and Germs: The Civil War Battle Against Wounds and Disease | Jarrow, Gail | 2020 | UMG | Industrial Age | 1860-1865 | North America | United States | American Civil War Medicine | NF | B |
| Pink and Say | Polacco, Patricia | 1994 | LE MG | Industrial Age | 1860-1865 | North America | United States | American Civil War | F | PB |
| Nurse, Soldier, Spy: The Story of Sarah Edmonds, a Civil War Hero | Moss, Marissa | 2016 | LE MG | Industrial Age | 1860-1865 | North America | United States | American Civil War Sarah Edmond | NF Bio | PB |
| Henry's Freedom Box | Levine, Ellen | 2007 | LE | Industrial Age | 1860-1865 | North America | United States | American Civil War Underground Railroad | NF Bio | PB |
| Guts & Glory: The American Civil War | Thompson, Ben | 2015 | UMG | Industrial Age | 1861-1865 | North America | United States | American Civil War | NF | CB |
| Bull Run | Fleischman, Paul | 1995 | MG | Industrial Age | 1861 | North America | United States | American Civil War | F | CB |
| You Wouldn't Want to Be a Nurse During the American Civil War | Senior, Kathryn | 2010 | LE MG | Industrial Age | 1861–1865 | North America | United States | American Civil War | NF | PB |
| This Republic of Suffering | Faust, Drew Gilpin | 2008 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1861-1865 | North America | United States | Death American Civil War | NF | B |
| Little Women | Alcott, Louisa May | 1868 | UMG YA | Industrial Age | 1861-1865 | North America | United States | American Civil War | F | N |
| Fields of Fury: The American Civil War | McPherson, James M. | 2002 | UMG YA | Industrial Age | 1861-1865 | North America | United States | American Civil War | NF | PB |
| You Wouldn't Want to Be a Civil War Soldier | Ratliff, Thomas | 2013 | LE MG | Industrial Age | 1861–1865 | North America | United States | American Civil War | NF | PB |
| The Bloody Country | Collier, James Lincoln Collier, Christopher | 2005 | UMG YA | Industrial Age | 1861-1865 | North America | United States | American Civil War | F | CB |
| Big Bad Ironclad! | Hale, Nathan | 2012 | MG UMG | Industrial Age | 1861-1865 | North America | United States | American Civil War | NF | GN |
| The Boys' War | Murphy, Jim | 1993 | UMG YA | Industrial Age | 1861-1865 | North America | United States | American Civil War | NF | CB |
| March | Brooks, Geraldine | 2005 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1861-1865 | North America | United States | American Civil War Abolition | F | N |
| Last of the Name | Parry, Rosanne | 2019 | UMG YA | Industrial Age | 1863 | North America | United States | American Civil War Irish Immigration NYC Draft Riots | F | CB |
| March Towards The Thunder | Bruchac, Joseph | 2009 | UMG | Industrial Age | 1864 | North America | United States | American Civil War Abenaki Nation | F | N |
| Crossing Ebenezer Creek | Bolden, Tonya | 2018 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1864 | North America | United States | American Civil War Sherman's March | F OV | CB |
| All Different Now: Junteenth, the First Day of Freedom | Johnson, Angela | 2014 | LE | Industrial Age | 1865 | North America | United States | American Civil War Emancipation | NF OV | PB |
| The Civil War of Amos Abernathy | Leali, Michael | 2022 | UMG | Modern Age | 2021-2022 | North America | United States | History Erasure LGBTQ+ American Civil War | F |
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| Reading Age | Genre | Format |
| LE = lower elementary MG = middle grade (8-12 yrs.) UMG = upper-middle grade (11-14 yrs.) YA = young adult (14+) A = adult (18+) |
NF - non fiction F = fiction Bio = biography HF = historical fantasy AH = alternate history OV - own voices M = mythology S = spine book |
PB = picture book GN = graphic novel ER = early reader CB = chapter book B = book (NF) N = novel M = memoir |