It's the semiquincentennial! (1776-2026) One book for each of the 50 states, Presidents & First Ladies, other American authors & works of note... (List first published by Summer M. Smith)
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last updated February, 2026
Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story
Wilfred M. McClay
American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
Victoria Johnson
Signing Their Lives Away: The Fame and Misfortune of the Men Who Signed the Declaration of Independence
Denise Kiernan
Friends of Liberty: A Tale of Three Patriots, Two Revolutions, and the Betrayal that Divided a Nation: Thomas Jefferson, Thaddeus Kosciuszko, and Agrippa Hull
Gary B. Nash
1776
David McCullough
The Book of Stillmeadow (Stillmeadow, #2)
Gladys Taber
The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor
Dear Bob and Sue
Matt Smith
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
John Steinbeck
Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph
Dennis Prager
A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley
Jane Kamensky
A Woman's Work: The Storied Life of Pioneer Esther Morris, the World's First Female Justice of the Peace
Marian Betancourt
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
Aldo Leopold
Jack Zulu and the Waylander's Key (Jack Zulu, #1)
S.D. Smith
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Jamie Ford
America's First Daughter
Stephanie Dray
Understood Betsy
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
News of the World
Paulette Jiles
Friday Night Lights
H.G. Bissinger
Christy
Catherine Marshall
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Dee Brown
Celia Garth
Gwen Bristow
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
Jean Lee Latham
Two Girls of Gettysburg
Lisa M. Klein
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
Phil Knight
Everything Sad Is Untrue
Daniel Nayeri
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
J.D. Vance
Peace Like a River
Leif Enger
Outlander (Outlander, #1)
Diana Gabaldon
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith
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