Outstanding Books for the College Bound
History
The Endurance by Caroline Alexander Witch Hunt by Marc Aronson Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg Founding Brothers by Joseph E. Ellis Understanding September 11 by Mitch Frank Troy by Adele Geras Stone Heart: A Novel of Sacajawea by Diane Glancy The Dream by Drew D. Hansen Give Me My Father’s Body by Kenn Harper John Adams by David McCullough Sagas of Icelanders: A Selection Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII by David Starkey A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung War Letters Indian Givers by Jack Weatherford Krakatoa by Simon Winchester CD 919.9 ALE YA 133.43 ARO 92 LINDBERGH 973.4 ELL YA 973.931 FRA YA F GER F GLA 323.092 HAN 998.2 HAR 92 ADAMS F SAG 942.052 STA 944 TUC 959.604 UNG 355.0092 WAR 970.004 WEA 551.21 WIN YA 796.332 BIS YA F CHE 796.323 COL YA F CRU F GOL J 811 HEA 355.02 HED 070.49 HOW 726.6 KIN F VRE
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Humanities
Friday Night Lights, by H.G. Bissinger Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier Counting Coup by Larry Colton Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher Bee Season by Myla Goldberg Heart to Heart by Jan Greenberg, (ed.) War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges Shooting Under Fire by Peter Howe Brunelleschi’s Dome by Ross King The Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland Literature and Language Arts
Go and Come Back by Joan Abelove Bastard out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson Feed by M.T. Anderson Forgotten Fire by Adam Bagdasarian Postcards from No Man’s Land by Aidan Chambers Life is Funny by E. R. Frank My Heartbeat by Garret Freymann-Weyr The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
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Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Mah Monster by Walter Dean Myers 19 Varieties of Gazelle by Naomi Shihab Nye Woe is I by Patricia O’Connor The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman A Gracious Plenty by Sheri Reynolds Push by Sapphire Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi Lucky by Alice Sebold A Rose that Grew from Concrete by Tupac Shakur
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Science and Technology
The Sand-Reckoner by Gillian Bradshaw A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
What Do You Care What People Think? by Richard Feynman
In Code by Sarah Flannery The Universe in a Nutshell by Steven Hawking Dinner at the New Gene Café by Bill Lambrecht The Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston Stiff by Mary Roach Last Breath by Peter Stark Primal Teen by Barbara Strauch The Seven Daughters of Eve by Bryan Sykes
Social Sciences
Tuesdays with Morrie by Albom Mitch Newjack, Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover And Still We Rise by Miles Corwin Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond An American Insurrection by Doyle William Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Geeks by Jon Katz My Forbidden Face by Latifa [pseud.] Crossing Over by Ruben Martinez The Middle of Everywhere by Mary Pipher Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser Caucasia by Danzy Senna
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Riding the Bus with My Sister by Rachel Simon White Teeth by Zadie Smith The Gatekeepers by Jacques Steinberg Naked Economics by Charles Wheelan
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