So, I’m doing a thing. I’m going to compile a list of books to read alongside each WIP I’m either currently working on or would like to work on in the future. So far, I’ve started lists for Arrows, The Woodsman, Finnegan’s Valley, and all three Civil War projects.
Yep. I have three Civil War projects. There’s the series that actually takes place during the war, there’s the spin-off that takes place in the modern day, and then there’s the short story, which is about Zeke & Alice Matthews, the can’t-remember-how-many-greats-grandparents of Connor Matthews from Arrows.
Arrows
Pro-Life Answers To Pro-Choice Questions / Randy Alcorn
Passion & Purity / Elisabeth Elliot
The Purity Principle / Randy Alcorn
Keeping Cassie / Michaela Bush
The Woodsman
Plants of The Pacific Northwest Coast / Jim Pojar, Andrew MacKinnon
Finnegan’s Valley
The Story of the Irish Race: A Popular History of Ireland / Seamus MacManus
Paddy’s Lament, Ireland 1846-1847: Prelude to Hatred / Thomas Gallagher
Wars of The Irish Kings / David Willis McCullough
The Great Shame: And the Triumph of The Irish in The English-Speaking World / Thomas Keneally
The Oregon Trail Revisited / Gregory M. Franzwa
Pioneer Women: Voices From The Kansas Frontier / Joanna L. Stratton
A Time For Everything / Lilacs & Battlefields
The Blue & The Gray / Henry Steele Commager
1861: The Civil War Awakening / Adam Goodheart
My Dearest Julia / Ulysses S. Grant
Preserving The Past
Federalist Papers
Anti-Federalist Papers
The Civil War ones from the previous list
Decision In Phildaelphia / Christopher Collier
Founding Mothers / Cokie Roberts
1776 / David McCullough
The Portable Frederick Douglass / Frederick Douglass, Penguin Classics
George Washington: The Wonder of The Age / John Rhodehamel
Phillis Wheatley: Complete Writings / Phillis Wheatley, Penguin Classics
Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery / Eric Metaxas
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy / Eric Metaxas
If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty / Eric Metaxas
Let’s face it, this series is going to have a looooooooooooooooooooong list…
Of course, these lists are likely going to have more books added to them…whew. I’ve got a lot of reading to do…
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