Readalikes: If you enjoyed April's selection . . .

If you enjoyed Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell, then you might also like these books and television shows suggested by our discussion group members:

• Anything by Bill Bryson, David Sedaris, and Tina Fey for similar writing style.
• Young adult novels Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt and Johnny Tremaine by Esther Forbes.
• Narrative nonfiction history titles The Marquis: Lafayette Reconsidered by Laura Auricchio, 1776 by David McCullough, Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention by Catherine Drinker Bowen, Letters from an American Farmer by  J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur, Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts, Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World by Maya Jasanoff, The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust, and The Long Way Home: An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War by David Laskin.
• AMC drama TURN: Washington's Spies and HBO miniseries John Adams.