Books I Have Found Useful and Interesting

As I said a couple of weeks ago, I am putting up a page that is a list of various books I have read over the last few years in my search for information or education about something related to genealogy and my family lines.  The page is called Pat’s Book List and you can find it here.  This post is a brief introduction to my list.

I have thought about making a list of useful resources, websites, or genealogy and reference books that I use but decided to start that I would make a list of the books about an aspect of history and the fiction that have felt educational to me.  I often look for a book to help fill in some of the context of a person or line I am researching.

Several of the books on my list were written by journalists who were interested in a topic for one reason or another.  These are difficult to categorize as non-fiction or fiction, being based in historical materials but often extended to imagined conversations.  Some of the other books are straightforward fiction but I think are based in enough reality to be helpful in providing some picture of what a situation might have been like.

I know that there are at least a couple of books I have left off this list, so I will be updating it periodically.  If you have any suggestions about something I should read, or have comments about any of the books already on the list, please leave me a comment.  Here’s to summer reading!