| Columbus: The Four Voyages | Laurence Bergreen | Exploration and Colonial Era (1492 – 1763) | Non-Fiction | |
| Act of Oblivion | Robert Harris | Exploration and Colonial Era (1492 – 1763) | Fiction | |
| American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 | Alan Taylor | Revolutionary Era (1763 – 1788) | Non-Fiction | |
| The Bastard (Kent Family Chronicles #1) | John Jakes | Revolutionary Era (1763 – 1788) | Fiction | |
| The Rebels (Kent Family Chronicles #2) | John Jakes | Revolutionary Era (1763 – 1788) | Fiction | |
| The Whiskey Rebellion: A Distilled History of an American Crisis | BradyJ Crytzer | Federalist Era (1788 – 1800) | Non-Fiction | |
| The Whiskey Rebels | David Liss | Federalist Era (1788 – 1800) | Fiction | |
| American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850 | Alan Taylor | Jeffersonian Era (1801 – 1817) | Non-Fiction | |
| The Seekers (Kent Family Chronicles #3) | John Jakes | Jeffersonian Era (1801 – 1817) | Fiction | |
| In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex | Nathaniel Philbrick | Era of Good Feelings / Monroe Era (1815 – 1825) | Non-Fiction | |
| The Furies (Kent Family Chronicles #4) | John Jakes | Era of Good Feelings / Monroe Era (1815 – 1825) | Fiction | |
| What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 | DanielWalker Howe | Jacksonian Era (1825 – 1849) | Non-Fiction | |
| California Gold | John Jakes | Jacksonian Era (1825 – 1849) | Fiction | |
| This Hallowed Ground: A History of the Civil War | Bruce Catton | Civil War Era (1849 – 1865) | Non-Fiction | |
| The Titans (Kent Family Chronicles #5) | John Jakes | Civil War Era (1849 – 1865) | Fiction | |
| Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 | Eric Foner | Reconstruction & Expansion (1866 – 1877) | Non-Fiction | |
| The Warriors (Kent Family Chronicles #6) | John Jakes | Reconstruction & Expansion (1866 – 1877) | Fiction | |
| American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900 | HW Brands | Gilded Age (1877 – 1896) | Non-Fiction | |
| The Lawless (Kent Family Chronicles #7) | John Jakes | Gilded Age (1877 – 1896) | Fiction | |
| The Path Between the Seas | David McCullough | Progressive and Imperial Eras (1896 – 1917) | Non-Fiction | |
| The Americans (Kent Family Chronicles #8) | John Jakes | Progressive and Imperial Eras (1896 – 1917) | Fiction | |
| The Great War in America: World War I and Its Aftermath | Garrett Peck | World War I (1917 – 1918) | Non-Fiction | |
| To the Last Man (World War I, 1914-1918) | Jeff Shaara | World War I (1917 – 1918) | Fiction | |
| Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties | Lucy Moore | Roaring Twenties (1919 – 1929) | Non-Fiction | |
| Hollywood | Gore Vidal | Roaring Twenties (1919 – 1929) | Fiction | |
| Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression | Studs Terkel | Great Depression (1929 – 1940) | Non-Fiction | |
| The Four Winds | Kristin Hannah | Great Depression (1929 – 1940) | Fiction | |
| Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 | Max Hastings | World War II (1942 – 1945) | Non-Fiction | |
| The Winds of War | Herman Wouk | World War II (1942 – 1945) | Fiction | |
| War and Remembrance | Herman Wouk | World War II (1942 – 1945) | Fiction | |
| The Korean War | Max Hastings | Cold War Era (1946 – 1992) | Non-Fiction | |
| The Frozen Hours (Korean War, 1950-1953) | Jeff Shaara | Cold War Era (1946 – 1992) | Fiction | |
| Directorate S: The CIA and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan | Steve Coll | The Modern Era (1992 – 2016) | Non-Fiction | |
| Daisy Jones & the Six | TaylorJenkins Reid | The Modern Era (1992 – 2016) | Fiction | |
| The Room Where It Happened | John Bolton | Trump Era (2016 – Present) | Non-Fiction | |
| A People’s History of the United States | Howard Zinn | General US History | Non-Fiction | |
| New York | Edward Rutherford | General US History | Fiction | |
| The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870 | Hugh Thomas | Slavery Era (1619 – 1863) | Non-Fiction | |
| Roots | Alex Haley | Slavery Era (1619 – 1863) | Fiction | |
| The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West | Peter Cozzens | Native American History | Non-Fiction | |
| The Last of the Mohicans | JamesFenimore Cooper | Native American History | Fiction | |
