 | The Boston Massacre by Hiller B. Zobel
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $6.95 The most in-depth book written on the subject that is still available today. The bonus is that the trial of the British troops is given extra consideration, as the author is a jurist.
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 | The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution by Alfred F. Young
Buy used from: $15.00 Gets down to the average citizen's level for a great read on the "tea party" as well as other events.
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 | The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson by Bernard Bailyn
Buy new: $28.00 / Used from: $8.79 A fascinating story of a well-meaning loyalist who was ill-prepared for what befell him.
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 | Paul Revere's Ride by David Hackett Fischer
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $5.45 It's not just about Paul Revere. It is also about General Thomas Gage, the opening shots of the war, marital betrayal, heroism and thrilling history that brings you there.
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 | The Minutemen and Their World (American Century Series) by Robert A. Gross
Buy new: $13.50 / Used from: $5.99 This one tells you all about the social climate and environment that got these men to April 19,1775.
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 | Now we are enemies by Thomas J. Fleming
Buy used from: $1.50 A great telling of the defeat of the revolutionaries on Breed's (not Bunker's) Hill that began the road to their ultimate victory.
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 | John Adams by David McCullough
Buy new: $25.08 / Used from: $4.10 This one won the Pulitzer prize for it's study of the greatest citizen of Massachusetts ever.
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 | 1776 by David McCullough
Buy new: $21.12 / Used from: $1.55 George Washington hated New Englanders, but he began his ultimately successful campaign here, and hastened the British evacuation of Boston.
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