Enlightenment Booklist

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Book recommendations pertaining to the Enlightenment (1600-1699).

The 1600s

Topics include The Enlightenment, Early Colonization of North America (Jamestown/Plymoth), French colonization in North America, Galileo, Qing Dynasty China, English Civil War Cromwell’s Commonwealth and the London fire of 1666, Taj Mahal completed by Shah Jahan, Louis XIV the Sun King, Peter the Great (Russia), Isaac Newton, Salem Witch Trials and Atlantic Slave Trade.

Book Title	Author	PubDate	Reading Age	Time Period	Time Frame	Geographic Area	Country	Topic	Genre	Format
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love	Sobel, Dava	2011	YA A	Enlightenment	1600-1634	Europe	Italy	Galileo Scientists	NF Bio	N
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Samurai	Macdonald, Fiona	2009	LE MG	Enlightenment	1600–1699	Asia	Japan	Samurai	NF	PB
Race to the Truth: Colonization and the Wampanoag Story	Coombs, Linda	2023	MG UMG	Enlightenment	1600-1660	North America	United States	Colonial America Indigenous Americans Wampanoag Colonization	NF	CB
SeeSaw Girl	Park, Linda Sue	2009	MG	Enlightenment	1600-1699	Asia	Korea	17th Century Korea	F	CB
Women of Colonial America: 13 Stories of Courage and Survival in the New World	Miller, Brandon Marie	2016	YA A	Enlightenment	1600-1750	North America	United States	Colonial America	NF Bio	B
Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland	Walker, Sally M.	2009	UMG YA	Enlightenment	1606-1750	North America	United States	Jamestown Colonial America	NF	B
Blood on the River	Carbone, Elisa	2006	UMG	Enlightenment	1606-1610	North America	United States	Jamestown Colonial America	F	CB
1607: A New Look at Jamestown	Lange, Karen	2007	MG UMG	Enlightenment	1607	North America	United States	Jamestown Colonial America	NF	PB
Colonial America: An Interactive History Adventure	Lassieur, Allison	2011	MG	Enlightenment	1607-1775	North America	United States	Colonial America	NF	CB
A Lion to Guard Us	Bulla, Clyde Robert	1981	MG	Enlightenment	1609-1613	North America	United States	Colonial America Jamestown	F	CB
I, Juan de Pareja	De Trevino, Elizabeth Borton	1965	UMG	Enlightenment	1610-1660	Europe	Spain	Baroque	F	CB
The 1619 Project: Born on the Water	Hannah-Jones, Nikole Watson, Renee	2021	LE MG	Enlightenment	1619-2021	North America Africa	United States	Geneology Civil Rights Atlantic Slave Trade	NF OV	PB
History Smashers: The Mayflower	Messner, Kate	2020	MG UMG	Enlightenment	1620	North America	United States	Colonial America Mayflower	NF	B
Who's That Stepping on Plymouth Rock?	Fritz, Jean	1975	MG	Enlightenment	1620-1741	North America	United States	Plymouth Rock	NF	PB
Squanto's Journey	Bruchac, Joseph	2000	LE MG	Enlightenment	1620	North America	United States	Indigenous Americans Thanksgiving Colonial America	NF Bio	PB
You Wouldn't Want to Sail on the Mayflower	Cook, Peter	2013	LE MG	Enlightenment	1620	North America	United States	Mayflower Colonial America	NF	PB
Mayflower 1620	Arenstam, Peter, Kemp, John, and O'Neill Grace, Catherine	2007	MG UMG	Enlightenment	1620	North America	United States	Mayflower Colonial America	NF	PB
1621: A New Look at Thanksgiving	O'Neill Grace, Catherine Bruchac, Margaret M.	2001	MG UMG	Enlightenment	1621	North America	United States	Thanksgiving Colonial America	NF	PB
Sarah Morton's Day	Waters, Kate	1989	LE MG	Enlightenment	1627	North America	United States	Colonial America	NF	PB
Samuel Eaton's Day	Waters, Kate	1989	LE MG	Enlightenment	1627	North America	United States	Colonial America	NF	PB
Poison Priestess	Popovic, Lana	2021	YA	Enlightenment	1640-1680	Europe	France	Catherine Monvoisin	F Bio	N
Newton's Rainbow: The Revolutionary Discoveries of a Young Scientist	Lasky, Kathryn	2017	LE	Enlightenment	1642–1727	Europe	Great Britain	Science Isaac Newton	NF Bio	PB
Finding Wonders	Atkins, Jeannine	2017	MG	Enlightenment	1647-1889	Europe North America	Great Britain United States	Paleontology Astronomy Entemology Women in Science	NF	CB
Tidelands	Gregory, Philippa	2019	A	Enlightenment	1648	Europe	Great Britain	English Civil War	F	N
The Golden Age of Pirates: An Interactive History Adventure	Temple, Bob	2016	MG	Enlightenment	1650–1730	Atlantic Ocean	United States	Pirates	NF	CB
Out of Many Waters	Greene, Jacqueline	2002	UMG	Enlightenment	1654	Europe	Portugal	Portuguese Inquisition Sea Travel	F	N
Hour of the Witch	Bohjalian, Chris	2021	A	Enlightenment	1662	North America	United States	Witch Trials	F	N
A Parcel of Patterns	Paton Walsh, Jill	1992	YA A	Enlightenment	1665-1666	Europe	Great Britain	Plagues Bubonic Plague	F	N
Caleb's Crossing	Brooks, Geraldine	2012	YA A	Enlightenment	1665	North America	United States	Harvard College Wampanoag Tribe	F Bio	N
Master Cornhill	Jarvis McGraw, Eloise	1995	UMG	Enlightenment	1665-1666	Europe	Great Britain	Plagues Bubonic Plague Fires Great Fire of London	F	CB
Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague	Paton Walsh, Jill	1992	YA A	Enlightenment	1665-1666	Europe	Great Britain	Plagues Bubonic Plague	F	N
You Wouldn't Want to be in the Great Fire of London	Pipe, Jim	2016	LE MG	Enlightenment	1666	Europe	England	Great Fire of London Fires	NF	PB
Dark Tides	Gregory, Philippa	2020	A	Enlightenment	1670	Europe	Great Britain	English Civil War Restoration London	F	N
The Witch of Blackbird Pond	Speare, Elizabeth George	1958	UMG YA	Enlightenment	1687	North America	United States	Witch Trials Colonial America	F	N
Dear America: I Walk in Dread	Fraustino, Lisa Rowe	2011	MG	Enlightenment	1691	North America	United States	Witch Trials	F	CB
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Salem Witch	Pipe, Jim	2009	LE MG	Enlightenment	1692–1693	North America	United States	Witch Trials	NF	PB
The Crucible	Miller, Authur	1953	UMG	Enlightenment	1692-1693	North America	United States	Witch Trials	NF	CB
The Salem Witch Trials: An Interactive History Adventure	Doeden, Matt	2011	MG	Enlightenment	1692	North America	United States	Witch Trials	NF	CB
Witches: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem	Schanzer, Rosalyn	2011	UMG YA	Enlightenment	1692–1693	North America	United States	Witch Trials	NF	PB

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List of abbreviations:

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