57 Best Lexington Books of All Time (Updated for 2026)

1

The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777

Rick Atkinson

5.0

In the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy Rick Atkinson recounts the first twenty-one months of America’s violent war for independence. From the battles at Lexington and Concord in spring 1775 to those at Trenton and Princeton in winter 1777, American militiamen and then the ragged Continental Army take on the world’s most formidable fighting force. It is a saga alive with astonishing charac

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2

1776

David McCullough

5.0

In this stirring book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence, when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper.

Based on ex

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3

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief

Lawrence Wright

5.0

A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the now-classic study of al-Qaeda's 9/11 attack, the Looming Tower. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with both current and former Scientologists--both famous and less well known--and years of archival research, Lawrence Wright uses his extraordinary investigative s

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4

Lexington and Concord: The Beginning of the War of the American Revolution

Arthur Bernon Tourtellot

4.9

"Tourtellot's book is the best account we have of the day of Lexington and Concord. The actions of each individual who played a conspicuous part in the day's work are minutely traced but Mr. Tourtellot never loses the main thread of his narrative and the wealth of detail he has included gives substance and color to an exciting story."— J. C. Miller, New York Herald Tribune Book Review "Tourtellot

5

NOS4A2

Joe Hill

4.9

NOS4A2 is a spine-tingling novel of supernatural suspense from master of horror Joe Hill, the New York Times bestselling author of Heart-Shaped Box and Horns.

Victoria McQueen has a secret gift for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photograph, answers to unanswerable questions. On her Raleigh Tuff Burner bike, she makes her way to a rickety covered bridge that, within moments, takes h

6

The American Revolution

Richard Brandon Morris

4.9

Presents the causes and events of the Revolution.

7

If I Should Die Before I Wake

Han Nolan

4.9

Hilary hates Jews. As part of a neo-Nazi gang in her town, she's finally found a sense of belonging. But when she's critically injured in an accident, everything changes.
Somehow, in her mind, she has become Chana, a Jewish girl fighting for her own life in the ghettos and concentration camps of World War II.
Han Nolan offers powerful insight into one young woman's survival through the Holocaust and

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Night Probe! (Dirk Pitt, #6)

Clive Cussler

4.9

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In the midst of an international crisis, Heidi Milligan, a beautiful, brilliant American naval commander, accidentally discovers an obscure reference to the long-buried North American Treaty, a precedent-shattering secret pact between the United States and Great Britain. The President believes that the treaty offers the single shot at s

9

The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan

Jenny Nordberg

4.9

An investigative journalist uncovers a hidden custom that will transform your understanding of what it means to grow up as a girl.

In Afghanistan, a culture ruled almost entirely by men, the birth of a son is cause for celebration and the arrival of a daughter is often mourned as misfortune. A bacha posh (literally translated from Dari as "dressed up like a boy") is a third kind of child – a girl t

10

Forever and Ever Boxed Set (Forever and Ever #1-3)

JB Lexington

4.9

I'm in love with Skye Preston.

The Skye Preston.

The daughter of the wealthiest businessman in the world, and the most beautiful woman I've ever known. Her looks don't compare to her golden heart. And her heart doesn't compare to that big brain of hers.

But I could never tell her.

Because we've been best friends for twenty years.

She has a jerk for a boyfriend, and I'm not the only one who thinks

11

Johnny Tremain

Esther Hoskins Forbes

4.8

Johnny Tremain, a young apprentice silversmith, is caught up in the danger and excitement of 1775 Boston, just before the Revolutionary War. But even more gripping than living through the drama of Revolutionary Boston is the important discovery Johnny makes in his own life.

12

Unraveled

Helen Hard

4.8

The greatest gift is getting what you never thought you wanted.

Mitch Magruder, rich, successful, wildly popular surfer and entrepreneur, is always on the lookout for the next big wave or the next great deal. So when he s home for the holidays, he jumps at the chance to build one of his famous hotels right on the white, sandy, Florida beach where he grew up. The only thing standing in his way is Gr

13

A Howl for a Highlander (Heart of the Wolf, #10)

Terry Spear

4.8

Book 2 in Terry Spear's Highland Wolf Series

A Highland Wolf on a Mission...Meets a Dangerous Distraction

Duncan MacNeill is hell-bent on catching the thief who's stolen the clan's fortune and run off to Grand Cayman Island. Duncan has rarely left his homeland and he couldn't care less about an island paradise. He never expected to find a beautiful distraction who will show him just how appealing pa

14

The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Kim Edwards

4.8

On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy. Yet when his daughter is born, he sees immediately that she has Down's Syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a split-second decision that will alter all of their lives forever. He asks his nurse to take the baby away to an insti

15

I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz

Gisella Perl, Phyllis Lassner, et al.

4.8

Gisella Perl's memoir is the extraordinarily candid account of women's extreme efforts to survive Auschwitz. With writing as powerful as that of Charlotte Delbo and Ruth Kluger, her story individualizes and therefore humanizes a victim of mass dehumanization. Perl accomplished this by representing her life before imprisonment, in Auschwitz and other camps, and in the struggle to remake her life. I

16

A Highland Werewolf Wedding (Heart of the Wolf, #11)

Terry Spear

4.8

Elaine Hawthorn is a gray American werewolf, currently out of work, and on a mission to share in a family treasure. When she arrives in Scotland, she nearly has a head-on collision with one hot, kilt-garbed Highlander, and runs him off the road.

Werewolf laird Cearnach MacNeill isn't happy Elaine ruined his car, but he quickly becomes her protector after a misunderstanding lands her right in the mi

17

A SEAL Wolf Christmas (Heart of the Wolf, #12)

Terry Spear

4.8

Can an Alpha wolf who's met his match...

Navy SEAL Bjornolf Jorgenson has had tough missions before, but going undercover with feisty gray wolf Anna Johnson could top the list. She drives him crazy—in more ways than one. Now he has to investigate a murder, supervise a wild teenage wolf—and handle Christmas with Anna.

Survive the Holidays with her?

For Anna, the only thing worse than staging the perfe

18

Famous People I Have Known

Ed McClanahan

4.8

Ed McClanahan's hilarious classic introduces us to writers and revolutionaries, hippies and honkies, gurus and go-go girls, barkeeps and barflies, as well as Carlos Toadvine, aka Little Enis, the All-American Left-Handed Upside-down Guitar Player, among the characters he has encountered in thirty peripatetic years of wandering the fringes of the academic and literary worlds from his native Kentuck

19

The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come

John Fox Jr., Wade Hall

4.8

This powerful novel is one of the most perceptive tellings of the Civil War experience. This book is more than the moving story of a Kentucky mountain boy who fights to save the Union. Even the Civil War itself is but an epic stage for the novel's main business--the testing and maturation of a hero as American as Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer.

20

SEAL Wolf Hunting (Heart of the Wolf, #16)

Terry Spear

4.8

Paul Cunningham is one of the only bachelors left on the SEAL wolf team, and he's less than thrilled to hear he's been volunteered for a local charity bachelor auction.

Lori Greypaw suspected that her grandmother would use the auction as an opportunity to fix her up. So she's not surprised when she "buys" Paul to help Lori renovate her mountain cabin for a week. Lori's had a crush on the sexy SEAL

21

April Morning

Howard Fast

4.8

When you read this novel about April 19, 1775, you will see the British redcoats marching in a solid column through your town. Your hands will be sweating and you will shake a little as you grip your musket because never have you shot with the aim of killing a man. But you will shoot, and shoot again and again while your shoulder aches from your musket's kick and the tight, disciplined red column

22

A SEAL in Wolf's Clothing (Heart of the Wolf, #9)

Terry Spear

4.8

Meara Greymere is in charge of the cabin rentals on the rugged Oregon coastline, so her brother and his mate could take a delayed honeymoon. But while Hunter is away, the she-wolf intends to play—she just has to convince the right alpha male to rent one of the cabins, and she’ll take it from there. But when Finn Emerson arrives with every intention of pretending to be her lover, she's not going to

23

Against Epistemic Apartheid: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Disciplinary Decadence of Sociology

Reiland Rabaka

4.8

In this intellectual history-making volume, multiple award-winning W. E. B. Du Bois scholar Reiland Rabaka offers the first book-length treatment of Du Bois's seminal sociological discourse: from Du Bois as inventor of the sociology of race to Du Bois as the first sociologist of American religion; from Du Bois as a pioneer of urban and rural sociology to Du Bois as innovator of the sociology of ge

24

Hike the Bluegrass and Beyond

Valerie L Askren

4.8

Hike the Bluegrass and Beyond is your personal guide to walk, roll, and stroll your way across Kentucky. This newly revised 3rd Edition describes over 100 hikes, urban walks, and public gardens, complete with full-color topo maps, photos, and side trip reccomendations. Lightly doused with humor and just the right amount of historical trivia, this book focuses on many of the lesser known hiking spo

25

Let It Begin Here!: Lexington & Concord: First Battles of the American Revolution

Dennis Brindell Fradin and Larry Day

4.8

On April 18th at 9:30 p.m. Paul Revere learned that the British Army was marching toward Lexington and Concord to arrest rebel leaders. At 5:20 the next morning, a shot rang out and the American Revolution had begun. Told in a step-by-step account of the 24 hours leading up to the battles that sparked a revolution, this tale is sure to both inform and entertain

26

Lost Lexington, Kentucky

Peter Brackney and Mayor Jim Gray

4.8

Lexington has dozens of well-restored landmarks, but so many more are lost forever. The famous Phoenix Hotel, long a stop for weary travelers and politicians alike, has risen from its own ashes numerous times over the past centuries. The works of renowned architect John McMurtry were once numerous around town, but some of the finest examples are gone. The Centrepointe block has been made and unmad

27

Murder on Lexington Avenue (Gaslight Mystery, #12)

Victoria Thompson

4.8

When a wealthy businessman is murdered, Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy is assigned to investigate, even though the crime is out of his jurisdiction. The reason he soon realizes, is that the man has a deaf daughter—and it is well known that Malloy’s own son attends the New York Institution for the Deaf and Dumb.

The victim sent the girl to a rival institution, with different views on the deaf, and

28

Passion on Park Avenue (Central Park Pact, #1)

Lauren Layne

4.8

From the author of the New York Times bestselling Stiletto and Oxford series, the first in a sizzling new series following the unlikely friendship of three Upper East Side women as they struggle to achieve their dreams and find true love and happiness in the city that never sleeps.

For as long as she can remember, Bronx-born Naomi Powell has had one goal: to prove her worth among the Upper East Si

29

Sin and Sensibility (Griffin Family, #1)

Suzanne Enoch

4.8

Lady Eleanor wants an adventure before she surrenders to a dull Society marriage. And who better than the dashing and notorious rake, Valentine Corbett, to protect her from scandal...and school her in sin?

Young ladies just want to have fun...

Unfortunately Eleanor Griffin has three strapping brothers to frighten away any beau they deem unsuitable. She knows she's expected to marry eventually—probab

30

The Split History of the Battles of Lexington and Concord: A Perspectives Flip Book

Brenda Haugen

4.8

Every battle has two sides, and the Battles of Lexington and Concord during the American Revolution is no different. Experience the event from perspective of the Americans, and then read the perspective of the British. A deeper understanding of the battle from both sides will give readers a clearer view of this historic event.

31

Lexington, Kentucky

Ph.D.Gerald L. Smith

4.8

Lexington's African-American community has survived and flourished despite obstacles that may have proven insurmountable to some. A citizenry enriched by diversity and filled with fortitude, they have made their mark on black history as well as the Bluegrass State's heritage.In Black America: Lexington, vintage images from archives and personal collections showcase the people, places, and events a

32

The Bluegrass Conspiracy: An Inside Story of Power, Greed, Drugs & Murder

Sally Denton

4.8

When Kentucky Blueblood Drew Thornton parachuted to his death in September 1985 carrying thousands in cash and 150 pounds of cocaine, the gruesome end of his startling life blew open a scandal that reached to the most secret circles of the U.S. government. The story of Thornton and The Company he served, and the lone heroic fight of State Policeman Ralph Ross against an international web of corrup

33

Seduced by the Wolf (Heart of the Wolf, #5)

Terry Spear

4.8

His first priority is to protect his pack
Werewolf pack leader Leidolf Wildhaven has just taken over a demoralized pack. With rogue wolves on the loose causing havoc and the authorities from the zoo suddenly zeroing in on the local wolf population, the last thing he needs in his territory is a do-gooder female, no matter how beautiful and enticing she is...

She'll do anything to help wolves
Biologi

34

Packing Them in: An Archaeology of Environmental Racism in Chicago, 1865-1954

Sylvia Hood Washington

4.8

This important new book by Sylvia Washington adds a vital new dimension to our understanding of environmental history in the United States. Washington excavates and tells the stories of Chicago's poor, working class, and ethnic minority neighborhoods such as Back of the Yards and Bronzeville that suffered disproportionately negative environmental impacts and consequent pollution related health pro

35

Marriage on Madison Avenue (Central Park Pact, #3)

Lauren Layne

4.8

“The word charm is pretty much synonymous with Lauren Layne.” —Hypable

From New York Times bestselling author Lauren Layne, the “queen of witty dialogue” (Rachel Van Dyken, New York Times bestselling author), comes the final installment of the Central Park Pact series, a heartfelt and laugh-out-loud romantic comedy that’s perfect for fans of Sally Thorne and Christina Lauren.

Can guys and girls ever

36

Handbook of Clinical Intervention in Child Sexual Abuse

Suzanne Sgroi

4.8

Valuable resource for professionals in fields of psychiatry, psychology, mentatal health, social work and teaching, also for concerned parents. Provides guidelines for treating the child and family and systems for prevention. Techniques of different therapies are discussed as well as procedures for reporting, investigating, and interviewing the child.

37

How Soon Is Never?

Marc Spitz

4.8

There is a light and it never goes out . . . or is there?

Welcome to the big Reagan ’80s, where ketchup is a vegetable and the Cold War looms large and chilly. If like Joe Green you were coming of age during this boom era, your main concerns include one or more of the following: a rainbow assortment of Polo shirts worn with the collar flipped up, K-Swiss tennis shoes, a new cable channel called MTV

38

My Dinosaur is Scared of Vegetables

Lily Lexington

4.8

If you like stories by Maurice Sendak, Jon Klassen, Dr Seuss and P D Eastman then you will love this beautiful tale told by Lily Lexington in her debut children’s story.

Follow Jack and his cute dinosaur friend in his quest to avoid eating his vegetables.

The story ends with a great lesson about nutrition that all parents will love.
- 15 beautiful illustrations with many humorous scenes.
- Rhyming lin

39

The Minute Boys of Lexington

Edward Stratemeyer

4.8

The first book in Edward Stratemeyer's series for young people about the American Revolution. Follow Roger Morse and his friends as they help battle the British in a rousing adventure story. Written in the 19th century by Stratemeyer, who is well known for his famous Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys series, this selection is among over 1200 books for juveniles he and his syndicate produced in the early p

40

Kentucky Bourbon Trail, The: A Revised Edition

Berkeley and Jeanine Scott

4.8

The initial edition of Images of America: The Kentucky Bourbon Trail was published in 2009, and since then, the Kentucky Bourbon Trail® tourist attraction has grown to include 10 of the state's largest and most famous distilleries along with members of the new Kentucky Bourbon Trail Craft Tour®.

This revised edition contains nearly 100 new images of the bourbon industry, past and present, making it

41

RAPID RESULTS Credit Repair Credit Dispute Letter System: Credit Rating and Repair Book

John Harris

4.7

AMAZON/KINDLE Professional Version 2016
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here are some things to consider
1) I am a real person, with my letters I include my phone number and email.
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42

Besieged by Behavior Analysis for Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Treatise for Comprehensive Educational Approaches

Eric Shyman

4.7

Beginning with the claim that the field of educating individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder is hyper focused on behavior analytic methodologies, Eric Shyman proffers a polemic in support of comprehensive educational approaches including relationship-ba

43

Emotions and Violence: Shame and Rage in Destructive Conflicts

Thomas J. Scheff and Suzanne M. Retzinger

4.7

44

Credit Repair Book: ex credit bureau manager reveals credit repair secrets

John Harris

4.7

Are you saying right now DAMM THOSE (Bleeping) CREDIT BUREAU’S?

Are those DAMM Credit Bureaus stopping you from getting:

AN APARTMENT: Sorry here is your damage deposit back your credit application was not approved but thanks for the $30.00 credit application fee.

EMPLOYMENT: Sorry you are qualified and we really liked your interview, but after seeing your credit report we will be going a differen

45

Objects of Our Affection: Uncovering My Family's Past, One Chair, Pistol, and Pickle Fork at a Time

Lisa Tracy

4.7

After their mother’s death, Lisa Tracy and her sister, Jeanne, are left to contend with several households’ worth of furniture and memorabilia, much of it accumulated during their family’s many decades of military service in far-flung outposts from the American frontier to the World War Two–era Pacific. In this engaging and deeply moving book, Tracy chronicles the wondrous interior life of those p

46

From Lexington to Baghdad and Beyond: War and Politics in the American Experience

Donald M Snow and Dennis M. Drew

4.7

Decisions about when, where, and why to commit the United States to the use of force, and how to conduct warfare and ultimately end it, are hotly debated not only contemporaneously but also for decades afterward. We are engaged in such a debate today, quite often without a solid grounding in the country's experience of war, both political and military. This book, by a political scientist and a car

47

Wicked Lexington, Kentucky

Fiona Young-Brown

4.7

Filled with tales of infamous duels, cheating congressmen, and much more, Wicked Lexington, Kentucky offers the first collection the city's rowdy and ruckus history .

Despite its illustrious beginnings as the "Athens of the west," Lexington has always had a darker side lurking just beneath its glossy sheen. It didn't take long for the first intellectual hub west of the Alleghenies to quickly morph

48

Madam Belle: Sex, Money, and Influence in a Southern Brothel

Maryjean Wall

4.7

Belle Brezing made a major career move when she stepped off the streets of Lexington, Kentucky, and into Jennie Hill's bawdy house -- an upscale brothel run out of a former residence of Mary Todd Lincoln. At nineteen, Brezing was already infamous as a youth steeped in death, sex, drugs, and scandal. But it was in Miss Hill's "respectable" establishment that she began to acquire the skills, manners

49

An Invitation to Sin (Griffin Family, #2)

Suzanne Enoch

4.7

Seven marriageable daughters...and Lord Zachary Griffin is just the man to help them.

After all, what could be more tantalizing than teaching the beautiful Witfeld sisters all the special ways of driving a man into submission—and marriage? And leading exquisite Caroline Witfeld, the most spirited and least frivolous sister, to temptation would be wildly delicious.

Zachary doesn't realize that Carol

50

The Governor's Ladies

Deryn Lake

4.7

The year is 1775 and the town of Boston, Massachusetts is seething with unrest, as the War of Independence is about to erupt. Having risen through the ranks to become a colonel, Thomas Gage has known many battles in his time. For years he believed he did not have the time or the inclination for romance...until he met and fell in love with the vivacious American Margaret Kemble, eventually winning

51

Murder in Lexington: VMI, Honor and Justice in Antebellum Virginia

Daniel Morrow

4.7

In 1853 Lexington, Virginia, Mary Evelyn Anderson, one of the most beautiful women in the Commonwealth, spurned the advances of a young law student named Charles Burks Christian. Humiliated and heartbroken, Christian confronted, stabbed and killed the man he believed responsible for Anderson's decision. The man was her cousin, Thomas Blackburn, a VMI cadet and student of Stonewall Jackson. What fo

52

Civil War Lexington, Kentucky:: Bluegrass Breeding Ground of Power

Joshua H. Leet and Karen M. Leet

4.7

Although no great Civil War battles were fought in Lexington, Kentucky, the city afforded some of the greatest military and political leaders on each side. It produced the Honorable Henry Clay, whose efforts postponed the war by at least a decade. The city touched the lives of both Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln, whose wife, Mary Todd, spent her early years there. This breeding ground of powe

53

The Lexington Goes Down

A. A. Hoehling

4.7

Tells the story of the fated Lexington with moment-by-moment description of the ship's sinking and first-person accounts of survivors.

54

Method as Identity: Manufacturing Distance in the Academic Study of Religion

Christopher M. Driscoll and Monica R. Miller

4.7

Method as Identity: Manufacturing Distance in the Academic Study of Religion emphasizes the inexorable influence that social identities exert in shaping methodological choices within the academic study of religion, as witnessed in sui generis appeals to particularity and reliance on (or rejection of) identity-based standpoints. Can data speak back, and if so, would scholars have ears to listen? Wi

55

Lexington, Kentucky (Then and Now)

Fiona Young-Brown

4.6

Situated in the heart of Kentucky's Bluegrass region, Lexington is known as a cultural center throughout the state. The city, with its strong sense of history, education, and commerce, has undergone dramatic change, making way for development and progress with each new decade.

56

A Groom Worth Waiting For

Crystal Stovall

4.6

A Groom Worth Waiting For by Crystal Stovall released on Oct 25, 2001 is available now for purchase.

57

Pennsylvania, the Keystone State (World Almanac Library of the States)

Scott Ingram, Jean Craven

4.6

The 52-volume World Almanac Library of the States is the most up-to-date state set available, and it's the one School Library Journal calls more complete than its competitors. In addition to an in-depth factual profile of each state, every book offers fascinating and lively discussions of the state's history, people, geography, government, economy, culture, and lifestyles. Each title also includes