There Is History in All Men’s Lives

Recently, a member of the Tanglewood Moms group on Facebook asked for recommendations of historical fiction that she and her husband could read. Naturally, the group came through! We have gathered their suggestions, along with some suggestions of our own, for both historical fiction and histories that are worth reading this summer!

Historical Fiction

• The Wolf Hall Trilogy by Hilary Mantel
• Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
• A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
• The Nightingale or The Four Winds, both by Kristin Hannah
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
• My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton by Stephanie Dray
• The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
• Loving Frank or Under the Wide and Starry Sky, both by Nancy Horan
• Beneath a Scarlett Sky by Mark Sullivan
• Trinity by Leon Uris
• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
• The Alienist and Angel of Darkness, both by Caleb Carr
• The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon
• Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

History, Nonfiction

• Anything by Erik Larson
• The Years of Lyndon Johnson series by Robert A. Caro
• Twelve Mighty Orphans: The Inspiring True Story of the Mighty Mites Who Ruled Texas Football by Jim Dent
• Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African American, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
• Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
• The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Olympics by Daniel James Brown
• Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
• Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S.C. Gwynne
• Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose
• Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
• A Daughter of Cambodia series by Loung Ung
• Urban Indians in a Silver City: Zacatecas, Mexico, 1546-1810 by Dana Velasco Murillo

We hope you enjoy these books! Now excuse us, we have a lot of reading to do!