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Jeffersonian Books (fiction and nonfiction)
1.
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
by:
Joseph J. Ellis
3.94 avg rating — 28,832 ratings
2.
Thomas Jefferson & Sally Hemings: An American Controversy
by:
Annette Gordon-Reed
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 768 ratings
3.
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
by:
Jon Meacham
4.05 avg rating — 42,295 ratings
4.
Thomas Jefferson: Author of America
by:
Christopher Hitchens
3.94 avg rating — 3,829 ratings
5.
The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines & the Secret Mission of 1805
by:
Richard Zacks
3.86 avg rating — 2,350 ratings
6.
Thomas Jefferson
by:
R.B. Bernstein
4.03 avg rating — 4,828 ratings
7.
Becoming Jefferson's People: Re-Inventing the American Republic in the Twenty-First Century
by:
Clay S. Jenkinson
4.34 avg rating — 127 ratings
7.
Thomas Jefferson, Rachel & Me
by:
Peter Boody
3.83 avg rating — 138 ratings
9.
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
by:
Annette Gordon-Reed
4.02 avg rating — 6,800 ratings
10.
An Extended Journey
by:
Paul Sherman
3.59 avg rating — 44 ratings
11.
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
by:
Stephen E. Ambrose
4.23 avg rating — 66,334 ratings
11.
In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson
by:
Noble E. Cunningham Jr.
3.93 avg rating — 309 ratings
13.
Thomas Jefferson: A Life
by:
Willard Sterne Randall
4.08 avg rating — 1,325 ratings
13.
Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History
by:
Fawn M. Brodie
3.94 avg rating — 1,428 ratings
15.
The Jefferson Bible
by:
Thomas Jefferson
3.88 avg rating — 2,752 ratings
16.
The Sage of Monticello
by:
Dumas Malone
4.05 avg rating — 369 ratings
17.
Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War
by:
Michael Kranish
3.96 avg rating — 275 ratings
18.
1776
by:
David McCullough
4.10 avg rating — 243,342 ratings
19.
Monticello: A Guidebook
by:
Susan R. Stein
3.89 avg rating — 36 ratings
20.
What Would Jefferson Do?: A Return to Democracy
by:
Thom Hartmann
4.14 avg rating — 237 ratings
20.
The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson
by:
Kevin J. Hayes
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 195 ratings
20.
Tusculan Disputations
by:
Marcus Tullius Cicero
4.03 avg rating — 499 ratings
20.
Jefferson the President: First Term, 1801-1805
by:
Dumas Malone
3.97 avg rating — 337 ratings
20.
Grand Papa and Ellen Aroon
by:
F.N. Monjo
3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
20.
His Masterly Pen: A Biography of Jefferson the Writer
by:
Fred Kaplan
4.08 avg rating — 53 ratings
26.
The Life of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1
by:
Henry Stephens Randall
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
26.
Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty
by:
Dumas Malone
4.05 avg rating — 355 ratings
26.
The Jeffersonians: The Visionary Presidencies of Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe
by:
Kevin R.C. Gutzman
3.73 avg rating — 176 ratings
29.
Thomas Jefferson and His Library: A study of his literary interests and of the religious attitudes revealed by relevant titles in his library
by:
Charles B. Sanford
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
29.
Jefferson and the Rights of Man
by:
Dumas Malone
4.12 avg rating — 675 ratings
29.
The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln
by:
Sean Wilentz
3.97 avg rating — 1,899 ratings
32.
Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation: A Biography (Galaxy Books)
by:
Merrill D. Peterson
4.12 avg rating — 115 ratings
32.
Jefferson the Virginian
by:
Dumas Malone
3.97 avg rating — 1,289 ratings
32.
Reclamation: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant's Search for Her Family's Lasting Legacy
by:
Gayle Jessup White
4.03 avg rating — 358 ratings
35.
The Jefferson Bible
by:
Thomas Jefferson
3.88 avg rating — 2,752 ratings
36.
Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America
by:
Catherine Kerrison
3.59 avg rating — 3,021 ratings
37.
The Portable Thomas Jefferson
by:
Thomas Jefferson
4.08 avg rating — 213 ratings
37.
Jefferson's Monticello
by:
William Howard Adams
4.22 avg rating — 40 ratings
37.
Apostles of Revolution: Jefferson, Paine, Monroe and the Struggle Against the Old Order in America and Europe
by:
John Ferling
3.81 avg rating — 63 ratings
40.
Slavery and the Democratic Conscience: Political Life in Jeffersonian America
by:
Padraig Riley
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
41.
Thomas Jefferson: Passionate Pilgrim
by:
Alf J. Mapp Jr.
3.86 avg rating — 43 ratings
41.
Contesting Slavery: The Politics of Bondage and Freedom in the New American Nation
by:
John Craig Hammond
3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings
43.
The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
by:
Wendell Berry
4.33 avg rating — 6,465 ratings
43.
Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy: How Hamilton's Merchant Class Lost Out to the Agrarian South
by:
Charles A. Beard
3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings
45.
Robinson Crusoe
by:
Daniel Defoe
3.68 avg rating — 324,991 ratings
45.
Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
by:
Gordon S. Wood
4.13 avg rating — 1,789 ratings
47.
Thomas Jefferson's Garden Book, 1766-1824: With Relevant Extracts from His Other Writings
by:
Peter J. Hatch
4.19 avg rating — 36 ratings
47.
Hidden Lives: The Archaeology of Slave Life at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest
by:
Barbara J. Heath
3.60 avg rating — 15 ratings
49.
Jefferson's Garden
by:
Peter Loewer
3.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
49.
Jefferson's Poplar Forest: Unearthing a Virginia Plantation
by:
Barbara J. Heath
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
51.
Inventing A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson
by:
Gore Vidal
3.57 avg rating — 1,521 ratings
52.
Thomas Jefferson American Humanist
by:
Karl Lehmann
4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
53.
The Journals of Lewis and Clark
by:
Meriwether Lewis
4.12 avg rating — 5,347 ratings
54.
Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves
by:
Henry Wiencek
3.98 avg rating — 815 ratings
55.
Rot, Riot, and Rebellion: Mr. Jefferson's Struggle to Save the University That Changed America
by:
Rex Bowman
3.87 avg rating — 90 ratings
56.
The Man from Monticello: An Intimate Life of Thomas Jefferson
by:
Thomas Fleming
3.72 avg rating — 58 ratings
56.
Jefferson and Hamilton: The Rivalry That Forged a Nation
by:
John Ferling
3.94 avg rating — 1,279 ratings
58.
Thomas Jefferson: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Everything
by:
Maira Kalman
4.05 avg rating — 801 ratings
59.
Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War that Changed American History
by:
Brian Kilmeade
3.80 avg rating — 16,603 ratings
60.
Why Liberals Win the Culture Wars (Even When They Lose Elections): The Battles That Define America from Jefferson's Heresies to Gay Marriage
by:
Stephen Prothero
3.74 avg rating — 385 ratings
61.
Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination
by:
Annette Gordon-Reed
3.75 avg rating — 751 ratings
62.
Kindred Spirits: Thomas Jefferson and Aeschylus
by:
C. Barry Buckley
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
63.
Jefferson's America: The President, the Purchase, and the Explorers Who Transformed a Nation
by:
Julie M. Fenster
3.87 avg rating — 315 ratings
64.
The Declaration of Independence
by:
Thomas Jefferson
4.54 avg rating — 3,815 ratings
65.
The Patriots: Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and the Making of America
by:
Winston Groom
4.10 avg rating — 500 ratings
66.
Stars and Shadows: The Politics of Interracial Friendship from Jefferson to Obama
by:
Saladin Ambar
4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
67.
Founding Fathers Funnies: Non-Stop Historical Hilarity
by:
Peter Bagge
3.66 avg rating — 61 ratings
68.
First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
by:
Thomas E. Ricks
4.07 avg rating — 3,746 ratings
69.
The Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution
by:
Founding Fathers
4.44 avg rating — 26,981 ratings
70.
The Essential America: Our Founders and the Liberal Tradition
by:
George S. McGovern
3.63 avg rating — 49 ratings
71.
The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders' Cure for Royalism
by:
John Nichols
3.58 avg rating — 43 ratings
72.
We the Fallen People: The Founders and the Future of American Democracy
by:
Robert Tracy McKenzie
4.40 avg rating — 207 ratings
73.
American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation
by:
Jon Meacham
3.86 avg rating — 3,137 ratings
74.
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
by:
Joseph J. Ellis
3.95 avg rating — 46,970 ratings
75.
A Nation Rising: Untold Tales of Flawed Founders, Fallen Heroes, and Forgotten Fighters from America's Hidden History
by:
Kenneth C. Davis
3.63 avg rating — 672 ratings
76.
Revolutionary Dissent: How the Founding Generation Created the Freedom of Speech
by:
Stephen D. Solomon
3.78 avg rating — 27 ratings
77.
Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery: An Illustrated History
by:
Dayton Duncan
4.17 avg rating — 490 ratings
78.
Hidden Cities: The Discovery and Loss of Ancient North American Civilization
by:
Roger G. Kennedy
3.88 avg rating — 48 ratings
79.
Journals of Lewis and Clark
by:
Meriwether Lewis
4.12 avg rating — 5,347 ratings
80.
Scenes of Visionary Enchantment: Reflections on Lewis and Clark
by:
Dayton Duncan
4.10 avg rating — 21 ratings