Local journalist John Muller has just published a book detailing the life and times of famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass as he lived and worked in Washington.

Author Garrett Peck is back with his third book, but instead of focusing on the history of drinking as he has in the past, he sets his sights on the Potomac River—all 383 miles of it.

The District’s is seeing something of a drinking revival these days, but it didn’t have to be that way — a new book finds that prior to prohibition, the District was a drinkers paradise.

Though it is excellent, Dream City isn’t the only book about the District of Columbia you should read. Here’s a few others we’d suggest.