Historical Fiction
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
by Alex Haley
Alex Haley's Roots follows one family across roughly seven generations.
Available editions
- Hardcover First edition ISBN-13: 9780385037877
Publisher profile
Doubleday
7 published books
7 published editions
Doubleday on WebToTell
Subjects: History & Society (3), Historical Fiction (2), Mental Health & Psychiatry, Exploration & Expeditions
Authors: Alex Haley, Colson Whitehead, Robert Kolker, David Grann, Patrick Radden Keefe
Published books and editions
Historical Fiction
The Underground Railroad
by Colson Whitehead
Cora, an enslaved young woman on a Georgia cotton plantation, accepts Caesar’s proposal that they flee north together.
Available editions
- Hardcover hardcover Published: ISBN-13: 9780385542364
Mental Health & Psychiatry
Hidden Valley Road
by Robert Kolker
Robert Kolker’s narrative nonfiction account follows Don and Mimi Galvin and their twelve children, a Colorado family in which six of the ten sons were diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Available editions
- Hardcover First U.S. edition; hardcover Published: ISBN-13: 9780385543767
Exploration & Expeditions
The Lost City of Z
by David Grann
In 1925, British explorer Percy Harrison Fawcett entered Brazil’s Mato Grosso with his son Jack and Jack’s friend Raleigh Rimell.
Available editions
- Hardcover hardcover Published: ISBN-13: 9780385513531 352 pages
History & Society
The Nickel Boys
by Colson Whitehead
The Nickel Boys is a historical literary novel about Elwood Curtis, a studious Black teenager growing up in Tallahassee during the civil rights era.
Available editions
- Hardcover First U.S. edition; hardcover Published: ISBN-13: 9780385537070 224 pages
History & Society
The Wager
by David Grann
The Wager reconstructs the disastrous voyage of HMS Wager, a British warship sent into the Pacific as part of Commodore George Anson’s expedition during the War of Jenkins’ Ear.
Available editions
- Hardcover First U.S. edition; hardcover Published: ISBN-13: 9780385534260 352 pages
History & Society
Say Nothing
by Patrick Radden Keefe
Say Nothing is a work of investigative narrative nonfiction about the Troubles and their long aftermath in Northern Ireland.
Available editions
- Hardcover First U.S. hardcover edition Published: ISBN-13: 9780385543378 464 pages