Literature

Jennifer Robin Barr’s “Thunder and Mercy” Wins 2026 Grateful American Book Prize

Honorable Mentions Awarded to Gail Jarrow and Kirstie Myvett

Patriotic Pick for December 2023

Chocolate City

Suggested by Laura Brower Hagood, executive director of the DC History Center

Patriotic Pick for November 2023

This Infernal War

Suggested by Grateful American Book Prize judge Dr. Peter S. Carmichael, the Robert C. Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies...

Patriotic Pick for October 2023

“Deacon King Kong: A Novel”
by James McBride

Suggested by historian Jane F. Levey, past editor of Washington History: Magazine of the DC History Center

Patriotic Pick for September 2023

“Becoming FDR”
by Jonathan Darman

Suggested by John Danielson, founder of Chartwell Education Group and former chief of staff at the U.S. Department of Education

Patriotic Pick for August 2023

“The Five of Hearts”
by Patricia O’Toole

An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams, suggested by David O. Stewart, author of George Washington: The Political Rise of America’s...

Patriotic Pick for July 2023

“Votes for Women!”
by Winifred Conkling

Suggested by Jennifer Bort Yacovissi, author of "Up the Hill to Home" and president of the Washington Independent Review of...

Patriotic Pick for June 2023

“The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams”
by Stacy Schiff

Suggested by Grateful American Book Prize judge Dr. Douglas Bradburn, president and CEO of George Washington’s Mount Vernon

Patriotic Pick for May 2023

“One Minute to Midnight”
by Michael Dobbs

Suggested by Kathy Cannon Wiechman, winner of the inaugural Grateful American Book Prize for Like a River

Patriotic Pick for April 2023

“Homegoing: A Novel”
by Yaa Gyasi

Suggested by Michelle Coles, winner of the 2022 Grateful American Book Prize for her debut novel, Black Was the Ink.

Patriotic Pick for March 2023

“Walking with the Wind”
by John Lewis

Suggested by Teddi Levy Marshall, co-founder of Rolling Greens Inc.

Patriotic Pick for February 2023

“Kindred”
by Octavia E. Butler

Suggested by Liz Robelen, a longtime review editor at the Washington Independent Review of Book

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