- A Massacre in Memphis: The Race Riot That Shook the Nation One Year After the Civil War
- A Year in the South: 1865: The True Story of Four Ordinary People Who Lived Through the Most Tumultuous Twelve Months in American History
- When the Yankees Came: Conflict and Chaos in the Occupied South, 1861-1865 (Civil War America)
- Firebrand of Liberty: The Story of Two Black Regiments that Changed the Course of the Civil War
- Rebel Richmond: Life and Death in the Confederate Capital
- Jean Plaidy
- Ellen Gunderson Traylor
- Sarah Dunant
- James Welch
- Ha Jin
- Ben Macintyre
- N. Scott Momaday
- Lucia St. Clair Robson
- Ciji Ware
- Bharati Mukherjee
- Philipp Meyer
- Stephen Budiansky
- Howard Bahr
- Mariama Bâ
- Stanley Vestal
- Paul Hemphill
- Kevin Michael Connolly
- Carol A. O'Connor
- Clyde A. Milner III
- Joan Anderson