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The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as early-american)
avg rating 3.44 — 941,142 ratings — published 1850
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as early-american)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,539,136 ratings — published 1868
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as early-american)
avg rating 3.89 — 47,127 ratings — published 2006
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as early-american)
avg rating 3.96 — 48,370 ratings — published 2000
1776 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as early-american)
avg rating 4.11 — 256,949 ratings — published 2005
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as early-american)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,353,064 ratings — published 1885
The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as early-american)
avg rating 4.15 — 6,996 ratings — published 2015
The Federalist Papers (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as early-american)
avg rating 4.10 — 42,686 ratings — published 1788
John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as early-american)
avg rating 4.09 — 384,058 ratings — published 2001
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as early-american)
avg rating 4.22 — 206,554 ratings — published 2004
The Frozen River (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as early-american)
avg rating 4.37 — 695,988 ratings — published 2023
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as early-american)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,164 ratings — published 2019
Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of a New Nation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as early-american)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,538 ratings — published 2003
The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as early-american)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,938 ratings — published 2004
West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as early-american)
avg rating 3.65 — 742 ratings — published 2014
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as early-american)
avg rating 4.05 — 98,167 ratings — published 2005
The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as early-american)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,289 ratings — published 1998
Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as early-american)
avg rating 2.88 — 3,764 ratings — published 1682
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as early-american)
avg rating 4.05 — 154,081 ratings — published 2003
The Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as early-american)
avg rating 3.69 — 233,436 ratings — published 1899
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as early-american)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,133,283 ratings — published 1925
Boone: A Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as early-american)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,245 ratings — published 2007
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as early-american)
avg rating 3.92 — 246,985 ratings — published 1852
Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as early-american)
avg rating 3.38 — 1,862 ratings — published 1827
The Coquette (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as early-american)
avg rating 3.37 — 3,740 ratings — published 1797
Washington: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as early-american)
avg rating 4.17 — 86,559 ratings — published 2010
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as early-american)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,495 ratings — published 1967
Democracy in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as early-american)
avg rating 4.06 — 27,616 ratings — published 1835
KINDLE THE LIGHT OF LIBERTY: A Jewish Colonial Love Story of the American Revolution (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as early-american)
avg rating 5.00 — 13 ratings — published
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as early-american)
avg rating 4.41 — 598,462 ratings — published 2024
The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780 (Revolution Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as early-american)
avg rating 4.63 — 4,604 ratings — published 2025
Hester (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as early-american)
avg rating 3.96 — 48,445 ratings — published 2022
When the Day Comes (Timeless, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as early-american)
avg rating 4.36 — 20,532 ratings — published 2022
The Slave Ship: A Human History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as early-american)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,263 ratings — published 2007
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as early-american)
avg rating 3.97 — 19,796 ratings — published 2023
The Invention of Wings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as early-american)
avg rating 4.26 — 338,717 ratings — published 2014
The Powhatan Indians of Virginia: Their Traditional Culture (Volume 193) (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)
by (shelved 2 times as early-american)
avg rating 4.06 — 70 ratings — published 1989
These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as early-american)
avg rating 4.37 — 84,814 ratings — published 1998
A Place Called Freedom (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as early-american)
avg rating 4.09 — 49,813 ratings — published 1995
A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience (Pivotal Moments in American History)
by (shelved 2 times as early-american)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,459 ratings — published 2014
King Philip's War: Colonial Expansion, Native Resistance, and the End of Indian Sovereignty (Witness to History)
by (shelved 2 times as early-american)
avg rating 3.54 — 71 ratings — published 2007
America's First Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as early-american)
avg rating 4.23 — 71,681 ratings — published 2016
1619: Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as early-american)
avg rating 3.51 — 414 ratings — published 2018
Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as early-american)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,197 ratings — published 1542
Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as early-american)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,430 ratings — published 1974
Everyday Life in Early America (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as early-american)
avg rating 3.73 — 552 ratings — published 1988
My Dear Hamilton (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as early-american)
avg rating 4.30 — 57,250 ratings — published 2018
The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as early-american)
avg rating 4.19 — 245,682 ratings — published 1843
First Generations: Women in Colonial America (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as early-american)
avg rating 3.69 — 292 ratings — published 1996
Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as early-american)
avg rating 3.85 — 611 ratings — published 2015
