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Readers who finished Josie by Richard E. Cooper and wanted more will find 24 strong picks here, all connected by United States, Historical, and Biography & Autobiography.

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Let It Shine Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters — Andrea Davis Pinkney

Let It Shine Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters

Andrea Davis Pinkney

Themes: United States • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

William McKinley The American Presidents Series: The 25th President, 1897-1901 — Kevin Phillips

William McKinley The American Presidents Series: The 25th President, 1897-1901

Themes: United States • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

Eleanor and Hick The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady — Susan Quinn

Eleanor and Hick The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady

Themes: United States • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

Warren G. Harding The American Presidents Series: The 29th President, 1921-1923 — John W. Dean

Warren G. Harding The American Presidents Series: The 29th President, 1921-1923

Themes: United States • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

Parkland Birth of a Movement — Dave Cullen

Parkland Birth of a Movement

Themes: United States • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

Up from Slavery An Autobiography — Booker T. Washington

Up from Slavery An Autobiography

Booker T. Washington

Themes: United States • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

Liberty, Conscience, and Toleration The Political Thought of William Penn — Andrew R. Murphy

Liberty, Conscience, and Toleration The Political Thought of William Penn

Andrew R. Murphy

Themes: United States • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

Madam The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age

Debby Applegate

Themes: United States • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

Malabar Farm — Louis Bromfield

Louis Bromfield

Themes: United States • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

The Boys of Pointe Du Hoc Ronald Reagan, D-Day, and the U.S. Army 2nd Ranger Battalion — Douglas Brinkley

The Boys of Pointe Du Hoc Ronald Reagan, D-Day, and the U.S. Army 2nd Ranger Battalion

Douglas Brinkley

Themes: United States • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

The Southern Soldier Boy The Experiences of a Confederate Soldier of the 56th North Carolina Regiment During the American Civil War — James Carson

The Southern Soldier Boy The Experiences of a Confederate Soldier of the 56th North Carolina Regiment During the American Civil War

Themes: United States • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

The Guns of John Moses Browning The Remarkable Story of the Inventor Whose Firearms Changed the World — Nathan Gorenstein

The Guns of John Moses Browning The Remarkable Story of the Inventor Whose Firearms Changed the World

Nathan Gorenstein

Themes: United States • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

Valiant Women The Extraordinary American Servicewomen who Helped Win World War II — Lena S. Andrews

Valiant Women The Extraordinary American Servicewomen who Helped Win World War II

Lena S. Andrews

Themes: United States • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

The Pursuit of Happiness How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America — Jeffrey Rosen

The Pursuit of Happiness How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America

Themes: United States • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

Profiles in Courage — John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Profiles in Courage

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Themes: United States • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

Land Ahoy! The Story of Christopher Columbus — Scoular Anderson

Land Ahoy! The Story of Christopher Columbus

Scoular Anderson

Themes: United States • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

The Match: Althea Gibson & Angela Buxton How Two Outsiders–One Black, the Other Jewish–Forged a Friendship and Made Sports History — Bruce Schoenfeld

The Match: Althea Gibson & Angela Buxton How Two Outsiders–One Black, the Other Jewish–Forged a Friendship and Made Sports History

Bruce Schoenfeld

Themes: United States • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

The Leadership Journey How Four Kids Became President — Doris Kearns Goodwin

The Leadership Journey How Four Kids Became President

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Themes: United States • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

The Military Memoirs of General John Pope — Peter Cozzens

The Military Memoirs of General John Pope

Themes: United States • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

Ghosts of Honolulu A Japanese Spy, a Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor — Mark Harmon

Ghosts of Honolulu A Japanese Spy, a Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor

Themes: United States • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

The Gathering Storm — Winston Churchill

The Gathering Storm

Winston Churchill

Themes: United States • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

James K. Polk The American Presidents Series: The 11th President, 1845-1849 — John Seigenthaler

James K. Polk The American Presidents Series: The 11th President, 1845-1849

John Seigenthaler

Themes: United States • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

Diary of an Early American Boy Noah Blake 1805 — Eric Sloane

Diary of an Early American Boy Noah Blake 1805

Themes: United States • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

Abraham Lincoln A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House Merlin Mission #19: Abe Lincoln at Last — Mary Pope Osborne

Abraham Lincoln A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House Merlin Mission #19: Abe Lincoln at Last

Mary Pope Osborne

Themes: United States • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Josie by Richard E. Cooper. Connected by United States, Historical, Biography & Autobiography. Authors featured include Andrea Davis Pinkney, Kevin Phillips, Susan Quinn, John W. Dean, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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