Pre-Revolutionary:

• 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
• American Colonies: The Settling of North America by Alan Taylor
• A Land as God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America by James Horn
• A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz
• Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
• Before 1776: Life in the American Colonies (Professor Robert Allison via The Great Courses)

The American Revolution:

• Patriots: Men Who Started the American Revolution by A.J. Langguth
• The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon Wood
• The Ideological Origin of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn
• Almost a Miracle: American Victory in the War of Independence by John Ferling
• The American Revolution: A History by Gordon Wood
• Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph Ellis

Revolutionary Era (but this time, reading for fun):

• Paul Revere’s Ride by David Hackett Fischer
• Washington’s Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
• 1776 by David McCullough