OUTSTANDING BOOKS FOR THE COLLEGE BOUND Suggested Reading List From the PVHS Library
Agee, James. Death in the Family Alvarez, Julia. In the Time of Butterflies Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid’s Tale. Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451 Bronte, Emily. Jane Eyre Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights Butler, Octavia. Parable of the Sower Camus, Albert. Stranger Card, Orson Scott. Ender’s Game Cather, Willa. My Antonia Chopin, Kate. The Awakening Conrad, Joseph. Lord Jim Dickens, Charles. David Copperfield Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man Frazier, Charles. Cold Mountain Gaines, Ernest. A Lesson Before Dying Haddon, Mar. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Hardy, Thomas. Return of the Native Heller, Joseph. Catch-22 Hemingway, Ernest. Farewell to Arms Hemingway, Ernest. Old Man and the Sea Hesse, Herman. Siddhartha Hosseini, K. The Kite Runner Hugo, Victor. Les Miserables Keneally, Thomas. Schindler’s List King, Laurie. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice LeGuin, Ursula. The Left Hand of Darkness Lahiri, J. The Namesake. Maugham, W. Somerset. Of Human Bondage McCullers, Carson. The Member of the Wedding McKinley, Robin. Beauty Malamud, Bernard. The Fixer Mason, Bobbi Ann. In Country Melville, Herman. Moby Dick Mitchell, Margaret. Gone With the Wind. Mori, Kyoko. Shizuko’s Daughter Morrison, Toni. Beloved Nordhoff, Charles. Bounty Trilogy O’Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction Paton, Alan. Cry, the Beloved Country Poe, Edgar Allen. Complete Tales and Poems Potok, Chaim. The Chosen Remarque, Erich. All Quiet on the Western Front Salinger, J. D. Catcher in the Rye Scott, Sir Walter. Ivanhoe Shaara, Michael. Killer Angels Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath Thackeray, William. Vanity Fair Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace Turgenev, Ivan. Fathers and Sons Uchida, Yoshiko. Picture Bride Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse Five Watson, Larry. Montana Weir, Alison. Innocent Traitor Wharton, Edith. Ethan Frome Wright, Richard. Native Son Yolen, Jane. Briar Rose
FICTION
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OUTSTANDING BOOKS FOR THE COLLEGE BOUND Suggested Reading List From the PVHS Library NONFICTION
Allende, Isabel. Paula; House of Spirits Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Atkin, S. Beth. Voices From the Streets: Young Former Gang Members Tell Their Stories Baker, Russell. Growing Up Blais, Madeleine. In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle Bodanis, David. The Secret Family: Twenty-four Hours Inside the Mysterious World of Our Minds and Bodies Brown, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring Chang, Iris. The Rape of Nanking Clary, David. Rocket Man: Robert Goddard and the Birth of the Space Age Cohn, Marthe. Behind Enemy Lines Corwin, Miles. And Still We Rise: Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City Students Cox, Lynne. Swimming to Antarctica Curie, Eve. Marie Curie Dorris, Michael. The Broken Cord Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Edelman, Bernard. Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam Ehrenreich, B. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting Boy in America Feynman, Richard. Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feyman. (Nobel Prize-winning physicist) Hawking, Stephen. A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes Hersey, John. Hiroshima Hockenberry, John. Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declaration of Independence Ji-Li, Jiang. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution Jonas, Gerald. Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement Junger, Sebastian. The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea Karr, Mary. The Liar’s Club: A Memoir Kennedy, John F. Profiles in Courage Khanga, Yelena. Soul to Soul: A Black Russian American Family (Russian journalist of African-American and Jewish heritage) Kincaid. Jamaica. My Brother (Caring for a brother with AIDS) Krakauer, John. Into Thin air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster Larson, Erik. Thunderstruck Massie, Robert. Tsar Nicholas Romanov and Tsarina Alexandra. Mathabane, Mark. Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth’s Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa McBride, James. The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother McCourt, Frank. Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir Mehta, Ved. Sound Shadows of the New World (Blind Indian boy challenged by handicap, loneliness, culture shock) Moody, Ann. Coming of Age in Mississippi. Mora, Pat. House of Houses. (Growing up as a Mexican-American in El Paso, Texas) Mortensen, Greg. Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace … One School at a Time Pipher, Mary. Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls Rodriguez, Luis. Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A. Rodriguez, Richard. Hunger of Memory: the Education of Richard Rodriguez: An Autobiography Salzman, Mark. True Notebooks (Teacher’s experiences at Juvenile Hall) Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation Spiegelman, Art. Maus: A Survivor’s Tale Wolff, Tobias. This Boy’s Life: A Memoir Wright, Richard. Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth
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