October 2012

Booklists · Veterans Day

Honor our veterans and active military personnel with one of these patriotic staff picks!

Books for Kids: Easy Books

Vote for Me!

Ben Clanton

Amelia Bedelia’s First Vote

Herman Parish

Freedom Song: The Story of Henry “Box” Brown

Sally M. Walker

I Need My Own Country

Rick Walton

Books for Kids: Juvenile Fiction and Nonfiction

Don’t Forget, God Bless Our Troops

Jill Biden

Veterans Day

Connor Dayton

I, Too, Am America

Langston Hughes

Freedom Stone

Jeffrey Kluger

Heart on Fire: Susan B. Anthony Votes for President

Ann Malaspina

Today on Election Day

Catherine Stier

Sailing to Freedom

Martha Bennett Stiles

Adult Nonfiction

Offerings at the Wall: Artifacts from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection

Thomas B. Allen

The Lost History of 1914: Reconsidering the Year the Great War Began

Jack Beatty

A People’s History of the U.S. Military: Ordinary Soldiers Reflect on Their Experience of War, from the American Revolution to Afghanistan

Michael A. Bellesiles

Medal of Honor: Portraits of Valor Beyond the Call of Duty

Peter Collier

Arc of Empire: America’s Wars in Asia from the Philippines to Vietnam

Michael H. Hunt

Civil War Sketchbook: Drawings from the Battlefront

Harry L. Katz

Service: A Navy SEAL at War

Marcus Luttrell

Lest We Forget: Masterpieces of Patriotic Jewelry and Military Decorations

Judith Price

Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails: A Memoir

Anthony Swofford

The Letter: My Journey Through Love, Loss, and Life

Marie Tillman

The Kissing Sailor: The Mystery Behind the Photo That Ended World War II

Lawrence Verria

Those Who Have Borne the Battle: A History of America’s Wars and Those Who Fought Them

James Edward Wright

Adult Fiction: General

Fobbit

David Abrams

Toby's Room

Pat Barker

The People of Forever Are Not Afraid

Shani Boianjiu

Pacific Glory

P.T. Deutermann

The Battle of the Crater: A Novel of the Civil War

Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen

Nanjing Requiem

Ha Jin

Trapeze

Simon Mawer

The Coldest Night: A Novel of Love & War

Robert Olmstead

The Yellow Birds

Kevin Powers

The Watch

Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya

A Blaze of Glory: A Novel of the Battle of Shiloh

Jeff Shaara

Adult Fiction: The Classics

The Red Badge of Courage

Stephen Crane

The Quiet American

Graham Greene

Catch-22

Joseph Heller

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ernest Hemingway

From Here to Eternity

James Jones

The Naked and the Dead

Norman Mailer

All Quiet on the Western Front

Erich Maria Remarque

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy

Need more suggestions? Contact your local library and a reference librarian will be happy to assist you.