What to Read After April 1865
Readers who loved April 1865 by Jay Winik keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where April 1865 is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after April 1865
Landscape Turned Red
The Gettysburg campaign
Battle Cry of Freedom Part 1 of 3
The Civil War
A stillness at Appomattox
Gods and Generals
Washington's crossing
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Lincoln at Gettysburg
Truman
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
Confederates In The Attic
Undaunted Courage
Theodore Rex
Gettysburg
American lion
The Killer Angels
His Excellency: George Washington
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young
An Army at Dawn
American Creation
The glorious cause
What Hath God Wrought
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