The following books on the American Revolution are recommended for general audiences, and may be especially valuable in high school and community libraries. This list was compiled by the History Committee of the Society of the Cincinnati.
Atkinson, Rick. The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2019.
Baer, Friederike. Hessians: German Soldiers in the Revolutionary War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Bunker, Nick. An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
Chernow, Ron. Alexander Hamilton. London: Penguin Press, 2004.
———. Washington: A Life. London: Penguin Books, 2010.
Ellis, Joseph J. American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.
———. His Excellency: George Washington. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
Fisher, David Hackett. Washington’s Crossing. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Flexner, James Thomas. George Washington in the American Revolution. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1968.
Hinderaker, Eric. Boston’s Massacre. Boston: Harvard University Press, 2017.*
Merritt, Eli. Disunion Among Ourselves: The Perilous Politics of the American Revolution. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2023.*
O’Shaughnessy, Andrew. The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013.
Spring, Matthew H. With Zeal and With Bayonets Only: The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775-1783. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008.*
Warren, Jack D., Jr., Freedom: The Enduring Importance of the American Revolution. Guilford: Lyons Press, 2023.
Weddle, Kevin J. The Compleat Victory: Saratoga and the American Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.*
Wood, Gordon. The American Revolution: A History. New York: Penguin Random House, 1982.
*Indicates winner of the Society of the Cincinnati Prize