Esperanza Rising

Pam Muñoz Ryan

Whose Names Are Unknown

Sanora Babb

The Dust Bowl: An Illustrated History

Dayton Duncan

American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California

James N. Gregory

This Tender Land

William Kent Krueger

Growing Up

Russell Baker

The Four Winds

Kristin Hannah

Water for Elephants

Sara Gruen

A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression

Jane Ziegelman

Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression

Mildred Armstrong Kalish

Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World

Liaquat Ahamed

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

The Day the Bubble Burst: A Social History of the Wall Street Crash of 1929

Gordon Thomas

Bullfrogs, Bingo, and the Little House on the Prairie: How Innovators of the Great Depression Made the Best of the Worst of Times

Jason Voiovich

Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression

Studs Terkel

Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

Caroline Fraser

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

Timothy Egan

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

Daniel James Brown