Rhetoric: Late Renaissance/Early Modern: 1600 A.D. - 1850 A.D.
A Concise History of Spain (Cambridge Concise Histories) by William D. Phillips and Carla Rahn Phillips (Nonfiction/Survey history--Paleolithic Era-Present)
Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, and Science by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos (Nonfiction/Survey--7000 B.C.-21st century)
Women of the Sea: Ten Pirate Stories by Myra Weatherly (Nonfiction - 1500s-1700s)
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The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston (Nonfiction/Legendary city/History of those who looked for it/Cortes through modern technology--1520s to 2017)
The Age of Religious Wars: 1559-1715 by Richard S. Dunn (Nonfiction/Survey--1559-1715)
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The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric (Fiction, but.../History of the Bosnian people--1566-1915)
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Edward II by Christopher Marlowe (Play/PARENT ADVISORY--preview first--pub. 1594)
The Ring of Wind by Chris Bradford [9th and 10th grades] (Japan/Samurai--1600s)
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Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (Play/Illyria--time of setting unknown, pub. 1601)
The Tempest by William Shakespeare (Play/Island in the Mediterranean Sea/however-it has been suggested that the wreck of the Sea Venture on Bermuda influenced the writing of the play--believed to be set around the time it was written, 1610-1611)
Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford (Nonfiction/Primary source--1620-1647)
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (Novel/Paris--1625-1628)
A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge (Novel/English Civil War/Supernatural--1640s)
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Novel/Massachusetts Bay Colony--1642)
John Winthrop, Oliver Cromwell, and the Land of Promise by Marc Aronson (Nonfiction - England/Massachusetts/Puritan rule--1642-1660)
Cromwell's Convicts: The Death March from Dunbar by John Sadler and Rosie Serdiville (Nonfiction/Scots vs English/Battle of Dunbar/Death march--1650)
Puritanism: Opposing Viewpoints by William Dudley (mid to late 1600s)
Witch Child by Celia Rees (Salem Puritans--1659)
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No Shame, No Fear by Ann Turnbull (Novel/England/Religious persecution/Quaker & Anglican fall in love--1662)
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Forged in the Fire by Ann Turnbull (Novel/England/Plague/Sequel to No Shame, No Fear--1665)
Our America--The King Philip's War Adventure by Susan Kilbride (Massachusetts--1675-1676)
Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (Christian Classic--pub. 1678-1684)
The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World by Edward Dolnick (Nonfiction--1680s-early 1700s)
Witch-hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials by Marc Aronson (Nonfiction - Massachusetts--1688-1692
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The Crucible by Arthur Miller (Play/Salem Witch Trials/parable about McCarthyism--1688-1692 and 1950-1954)
A Break with Charity: A Story about the Salem Witch Trials by Ann Rinaldi (Novel/Salem Witch Trials/Massachusetts--1692)
The Ransom of Mercy Carter by Caroline B. Cooney (Massachusetts/Canada Mohawk captives--1704)
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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 (Nonfiction--1706-1875)
Afghanistan by Louis Dupree (Nonfiction/Survey from time the area was given borders and the name--1709-1980)
Vivaldi's Virgins by Barbara Quick (Biographical novel/Venice/Music history/Anna Maria Dal Violin/Began seriously performing--1715)
Eighteen-Century Europe: Tradition and Progress by Isser Woloch (Nonfiction/Survey--1715-1789)
Pirates! by Celia Rees (Novel/Jamaica/Plantation daughter and a slave girl run off and become pirates--1722)
Where the World Ends by Geraldine McCaughrean (Novel/St. Kilda, Outer Hebrides, Scotland/Hunting, fowling--1727)
Copper Sun by Sharon Draper (Novel/Slave and Indentured Servant/Flight to Spanish Florida--1738)
Candide by Voltaire (Europe/South America--1750s)
Hang a Thousand Trees with ribbons: the story of Phillis Wheatley by Ann Rinaldi (1753-84)
The Bad Queen: Rules and Instructions for Marie Antoinette by Carolyn Meyer (Young Royals - France/Revolution--1755-1793)
Ticonderoga 1758: Montcalm's Victory Against All Odds by Rene Chartrand (Nonfiction/French and Indian War--1758)
A Stolen Life by Jane Louise Curry (Virginia/Scottish bond slave girl--1758)
Longitude by Dava Sobel (Nonfiction/Marine Chronometer/John Harrison--1761)
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Nonfiction/Contemporary philosophy--1762)
A Most Troublesome Situation: The British Military and the Pontiac Indian Uprising of 1763-1764 by Timothy J. Todish (Nonfiction/Ottawa Tribe/British military--1763-1764)
Endeavour: The Ship That Changed the World by Peter Moore (Nonfiction/Biography of a ship/Captain Cook/Australia/South Pacific--1764-1778)
The Fifth of March: A Story of the Boston Massacre by Ann Rinaldi (1770)
April Morning by Howard Fast (Novel/American Revolution/Lexington--1775)
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The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery by Steve Sheinkin (Nonfiction/American Revolutionary War/Biography--1775-1780)
Women Heroes of the Revolution: 20 Storie of Espionage, Sabotage, Defiance, and Rescue by Susan Casey (Nonfiction - Various locales--1775-1780s)
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (French Revolution/London/Paris--1775-1792)
Common Sense by Thomas Paine (Rallying cry to the American populous--1776)
The Sherwood Ring by Elizabeth Marie Pope (New York/Revolutionary War/Modern day--1776 to future)
And Yet They Persisted: How American Women Won the Right To Vote by Johanna Neuman (Nonfiction/Comprehensive suffrage history--1776-1965)
The Federalist Papers by "Publius" [Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay] (Articles and essays promoting ratification of the U.S. Constitution--pub. 1787-1788)
The Anti-Federalist Papers by George Clinton, et al. (Articles and essays against the new U.S. Constitution--pub. 1787-early 1790s)
Mutiny on the Bounty by William Bligh (Nonfiction/Memoir/Maritime mutiny/South Pacific--1789)
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty by Caroline Alexander (Nonfiction/Maritime mutiny/South Pacific--1789)
The Red Necklace by Sally Gardner (Novel/Daughter of marquis befriends a gypsy boy/French Revolution--1789)
Keeping the Castle by Patrice Kindl (Novel/England/Castle/Courtship--likely between 1789 and 1820)
The Nineteenth Century: Europe by T. C. W. Blannimg (Nonfiction/Survey--1789-1914)
Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke (Nonfiction/Contemporary analysis--1790)
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy (Classic/French Revolution/France/England--1792-1795)
The Autobiography and Other Writings by Benjamin Franklin (Nonfiction/Memoir/Primary source--1793)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (Classic/Europe--end of 18th-century)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (Classic/England--1799-1811)
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Cracking the Egyptian Code: The Revolutionary Life of Jean-Francois Champollion by Andrew Robinson (Nonfiction/Biography/Rosetta Stone translation/translating hieroglyphs--1799-1822)
The Opium Wars: Exploring the Addiction of Empires from Beginning to End by Adrian Ramos (Nonfiction/China/British Empire/Drug trade--1799-1860)
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Novel/Columbia/Family/Six generations--early 1800s-mid 1900s)
Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History by Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger (Nonfiction/Naval and Marine history/Pirates/North Africa's Barbary Coast--1801-1805)
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Part One: 1808--Part Two: 1832)
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Novel/Georgian England--c. 1812)
1812: The War Nobody Won by Albert Marrin (Nonfiction/Causes/Survey--1812-1815)
Napoleon's Last Island: A Novel by Thomas Keneally (Novel/St. Helena/Exile/Betsy Balcombe--1815-1821)
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The Emperor's Shadow: Bonaparte, Betsy and the Balcombes of St. Helena by Anne Whitehead (Nonfiction/St. Helena/Napoleon/Betsy Balcombe Biography--1815-1871)
Emperor of the North: Sir George Simpson and the Remarkable Story of the Hudson's Bay Company by James Raffan (Nonfiction/Canada/Trade empire/At its height--1820-1860)
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Good Fortune by Noni Carter (Novel/Africa/America/Slave Trade/Escaped slave--1821)
The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824 by Harvey Sachs (Nonfiction/Music history--1824)
I've Got a Home in Glory Land: a lost tale of the Underground Railroad by Karolyn Smardz Frost (Nonfiction - Kentucky, USA/Ontario, Canada--1830s)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (Mississippi River--1830s-1840s)
Uncommon Faith: The Story of One Young Woman's Fight for Women's Rights by Trudy Krisher (Women's Rights/Slavery/Poverty--1837-1838)
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The Cherokee Removal: A Brief History in Documents by Theda Perdue [Bedford Series in History and Culture] (Nonfiction--1838)
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (London/Orphans/Classic--1839)
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Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London by Andrea Warren (Nonfiction/Biography/Social commentary/Victorian London)
The Opium Wars: Exploring the Addiction of Empires from Beginning to End by Adrian Ramos (Nonfiction/British Empire/China--1839-1842 & 1856-1860)
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (London--early 1840s)
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Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West by Hampton Sides (Nonfiction/Biography/Nuanced/My favorite author--1846-1868)
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The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx (Nonfiction--pub. 1848)
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