Here are some more suggestions:
Fiction:
The Bondwoman's Narrative by Hannah
Crafts
Paradise Alley by Kevin Baker
Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund
A Long Way from Home by Connie Briscoe
The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton
by Jane Smiley
Time and Again by Jack Finney
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon by Kaye
Gibbons
Two O'Clock Eastern War Time by John
Dunning
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung
Chang
Nonfiction:
The Map That Changed the World by Simon
Winchester
America's Jubilee by Andrew Burstein
Jane Rupp