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Historical Fiction: 1870 to World War I (1918)

  Author Title
 

AGEE, James

A Death in the Family

 

ARMSTRONG, Jennifer

Dear Mr. President: Theodore Roosevelt, Letters from a Coal Miner

 

BENEZRA, Barbara

Fire Dragon

 

BERGER, Thomas

Little Big Man

 

BIRD, Max

Grant

 

BLAKELY, Mike

Summer of Pearls (Texas, 1874 mystery and romance)

 

BLASCO IBNAEZ, Vicente

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

 

BOULTON, Carole

Never Jam Today

 

BRECK,Vivian

Maggie

 

BUCK, Pearl

Good Earth

 

BURNS, Olive Ann

Cold Sassy Tree

 

CARR, Caleb

Angel of Darkness

 

CARTER, Alden R.

Crescent Moon (early 1900s Native American)

 

CATHER, Willa

O Pioneers

 

 

My Antonia

 

CLARKE, Walter Von Tilberg

The Ox-Bow Incident

 

CONROY, Robert

1901

 

CRABBE, Richard E.

Suspension

 

DINESEN, Isak

Out of Africa

 

DOCTOROW, E. L.

Ragtime

 

DREISER, Theodore

Sister Carrie

 

FADEN, Giles

Ladysmith

 

FAST, Howard

The Immigrants

 

FAULKNER, William

Absalom, Absalom

 

 

Hamlet

 

 

Reivers

 

FINNEY, Jack

Time and Again

 

FORRESTER, C.S.

African Queen

 

FUENTES, Carlo

The Old Gingo

 

GARCIA-MARQUEZ, Gabriels

Love in the Time of Cholera

 

GIBSON, William

Miracle Worker (812 GIB)

 

GODDARD, Robert

In Pale Battalions

 

HAAS, Jessie

Westminster West

 

HARLOW, Joan Hiatt

Star in the Storm (1912 Newfoundland)

 

HEMINGWAY, Ernest

A Farewell to Arms

 

HEUSTON, Kimberly

The Shakers (19th Century New England)

 

HURSTON, Zora Neale

Their Eyes Were Watching God

 

JAMES, Will

Three Mustangers (Wild West)

 

JOYCE, James

Dubliners

 

KARR, Kathleen

Boxer (New York City Lower East Site 1885)

 

KHERDIAN, David

Road From Home

 

KIPLING, Rudyard

Kim

 

LONDON, Jack

Call of the Wild

 

McKAY, Sharon

Charlie Wilcox

 

MASSIE, Elizabeth

Not With Our Blood (young Irish immigrant 1870)

 

MASSEY, Sujata

Floating Girl (Pre WW I Japan)

 

MAUGHAM, Somerset

Of Human Bondage

 

MURPHY, Jim

 

NORRIS, Frank

My Face to the Wind: Diary of Sarah Jane Price, A Prairie Teacher, Broken Bow, Nebraska, 1881

 

Octopus

 

 

The Pit

 

O’'NEILL, Eugene

A Long Day’s Journey into Night (812 ONE)

 

PASTERNAK, Boris

Doctor Zhivago

 

PEALE, Cynthia

Murder at Bertram’s Bower (1892 Boston)

 

PECK, Richard

Amanda/Miranda

 

PETERSON, Tracie                    

City of Angels (1903 Los Angeles Courtrooms)

 

RINALDI, Ann

Coffin Quilt

 

SHAEFER, Jack

Shane

 

SHAW, George Bernard

Pygmalion (822 SHA)

 

SHOLOKHOV, Mikhail

And Quiet Flows the Don

 

SINCLAIR, Upton

The Jungle

 

SLOTKIN, Richard

Abe: A Novel of Young Abe Lincoln

 

SMITH, Betty

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

 

SOLZHENITSYN, Alexander

August 1914

 

STEINBECK, John

Of Mice and Men

 

TAMAR, Erika

Midnight Train Home (Vaudeville)

 

STYRON, Willian

Confessions of Nat Turner

 

THOMAS, Dylan

A Child’s Christmas in Wales

 

TRUMBO, Dalton

Johnny Got His Gun

 

TWAIN, Mark

The Gilded Age

 

TWOMEY, Cathleen

Charlotte’s Choice (Missouri 1905)

 

WERFEL, Franz

Forty Days of Musa Dahg

 

WHARTON, Edith

Ethan Frome

 

 

Age of Innocence

 

 

House of Mirth

 

WILDER, Thorton

Our Town (812 WIL)

 

WILLIAMS, Barbara

Making Waves (Titanic survivor fights for workers’ rights)

 

WRIGHT, Richard

Black Boy

 

 

 

   

 

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