American Civil War Booklist

American History > Industrial Age > American Civil War (1860-1865)

Book recommendations pertaining to the American Civil War (1861-1865).

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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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