- North America
- Beverly Swerling
- Sara Donati
- Lonesome Dove series by Larry McMurtry
- The Hemingses of Monticello
- novels about slavery
- Serena by Ron Rash
- Historical "westerns"
- American War of Independence
- Salem Witch Trials
- New York
- French Louisiana
- City of Dreams: A Novel of Nieuw Amsterdam and Early Manhattan
- The Kitchen House Kathleen Grissom
- Recommendations needed: The Gilded Age to WW1
- Recommendations: Alaska, British Columbia
- The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb