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Other Outstanding Books for the College Bound

History
Aronson, Marc.
Witch Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials
Berg, A. Scott. Lindbergh.
Danticat, Edwidge. The Farming of Bones.
Geras, Adele. Troy
Glancy, Diane, Stone Heart: A Novel of Sacajawea.
Harper, Kenn. Give Me My Father’s Body: The Life of Minik, the New York Eskimo
Lanier, Shannon. Jefferson’s Children: The Story of One American Family.
Least Heat-Moon, William.
Columbus in the Americas.
McCullough, David. John Adams.
Rogasky, Barbara. Smoke and Ashes: The Story of the Holocaust.
Starkey, David.
Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII.
Tuchman, Barbara. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Ctry
Ung, Loung. First They Killed My Father
Von Drehle, David. Triangle: The Fire That Changed America.
Watson, Peter. The Modern Mind
Weatherford, Jack. Indian Givers
Winchester, Simon. Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded
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Other Outstanding Books for the College Bound
Science and Technology
Brown, David. Inventing Modern America
Bryson, Bill. A Short History of Nearly Everything.
Enzensberger, H. The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure
Fagan, Bryan. The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History
Feynman, Richard. What Do You Care What People Think?
Flannery, Sarah. In Code: A Mathematical Journey.
Hawking, Steven. The Universe in a Nutshell.
Horvitz, L. Eureka!: Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed the World.
Krauss, Lawrence. Atom: An Odyssey from the Big Bang to life on the Earth and Beyond.
Lambrecht, Bill. Dinner at the New Gene Café: How Genetic Engineering Is Changing What We Eat, How We Live,
and the Global Politics of Food.
Livio, Mario. The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World’s Most Astonishing Number
Nash, Madeline. El Nino: Unlocking the Secrets of the Master Weather Maker.
Nolen, Stephanie. Promised the Moon: The Untold Story of the First Women in the Space Race
Porter, Roy. Madness: A Brief History.
Preston, Richard. The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story.
Roach, Mary. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers.
Sobel, Dava. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time.
Sykes, Bryan. The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science that Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry.
Tobin, James. Great Projects: The Epic Story of the Building of America from the Taming of the Mississippi to the
Invention of the Internet.
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101 Books You Should Read Before College

College Board’s Top 101 Books for the College Bound:

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Humanities
Belloli, Andrea P. Exploring World Art.
Blackstone, Harry Jr. The Blackstone Book of Magic & Illusion.
Brassai. Brassai: Letters to My Parents.
Chevalier, Tracy. Girl With a Pearl Earring.
Coulton, Larry. Counting Coup
Franck, Frederick (ed.) What Does It Mean to be Human? .
Goldberg, Myla. Bee Season
Greenberg, Jan (ed.) Heart to Heart: New Poems
Hedges, Chris. War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning.
Howe, Peter. Shooting Under Fire
King, Ross. Brunelleschi’s Dome
Light, Alan. The Vibe History of Hip Hop.
McGreevey, Tom and Yeck, Joanne. Our Movie Heritage
Smith, Huston. Illustrated World Religions.
Vreeland, Susan. The Passion of Artemisia.
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Literature and Language Arts
Chambers, Aidan. Postcards from No Man’s Land.
Cisneros, Sandra. Caramelo. traditions.
Foster, Thomas. How to Read Literature Like a Professor
Kaplow, Robert. Me and Orson Welles.
Kingsolver, Barbara. The Bean Trees.
Lamott, Anne. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing & Life
Mah, Adeline. Chinese Cinderella.
Nye, Naomi S. 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East.
O’Connor, Patricia. Woe is I: The Grammarphobe’s Guide to Better English in Plain English.
Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis.
Sebold, Alice. Lucky.
Shakur, Tupac. A Rose that Grew from Concrete.
Smith, Anna Deveare. Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights and Other Identities.

Social Sciences
Albom, Mitch. Tuesdays with Morrie
Cuomo, Kerry Kennedy. Speak Truth to Power: Human Rights Defenders Who Are Changing Our World.
Davis. Wade. Light at the Edge of the World: A Journey Through the Realm of Vanishing Cultures.
Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs and Steel
Ehrenreich, Barbara. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America.
Hart, Elva The Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child.
Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner.
Katz, Jon. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho.
Latifa [pseud.]. My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban; A Young Woman’s Story.
Martinez, Ruben. Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail.
Pipher, Mary. The Middle of Everywhere
Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation
Simon, Rachel. Riding the Bus with My Sister
Steinberg, Jacques. The Gatekeepers: Inside the Admissions Process of a Premier College.
Wheelan, Charles. Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science.
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Shakespeare, William	Romeo and Juliet
Shaw, George Bernard	Pygmalion
Shelley, Mary	Frankenstein
Silko, Leslie Marmon	Ceremony
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander	One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Sophocles	Antigone
Sophocles	Oedipus Rex
Steinbeck, John	The Grapes of Wrath
Stevenson, Robert Louis	Treasure Island
Stowe, Harriet Beecher	Uncle Tom's Cabin
Swift, Jonathan	Gulliver's Travels
Thackeray, William	Vanity Fair
Thoreau, Henry David	Walden
	War and Peace
Turgenev, Ivan	Fathers and Sons
Twain, Mark	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Voltaire	Candide
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr.	Slaughterhouse-Five
Walker, Alice	The Color Purple
Wharton, Edith	The House of Mirth
Welty, Eudora	Collected Stories
Whitman, Walt	Leaves of Grass
Wilde, Oscar	The Picture of Dorian Gray
Williams, Tennessee	The Glass Menagerie
Woolf, Virginia	To the Lighthouse
Wright, Richard	Native Son

Author	Title
--	Beowulf
Achebe, Chinua	Things Fall Apart
Agee, James	A Death in the Family
Austen, Jane	Pride and Prejudice
Baldwin, James	Go Tell It on the Mountain
Beckett, Samuel	Waiting for Godot
Bellow, Saul	The Adventures of Augie March
Brontë, Charlotte	Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily	Wuthering Heights
Camus, Albert	The Stranger
Cather, Willa	Death Comes for the Archbishop
Chaucer, Geoffrey	The Canterbury Tales
Chekhov, Anton	The Cherry Orchard
Chopin, Kate	The Awakening
Conrad, Joseph	Heart of Darkness
Cooper, James Fenimore	The Last of the Mohicans
Crane, Stephen	The Red Badge of Courage

Chaucer, Geoffrey	The Canterbury Tales
Chekhov, Anton	The Cherry Orchard
Chopin, Kate	The Awakening
Conrad, Joseph	Heart of Darkness
Cooper, James Fenimore	The Last of the Mohicans
Crane, Stephen	The Red Badge of Courage
Dante	Inferno
de Cervantes, Miguel	Don Quixote
Defoe, Daniel	Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles	A Tale of Two Cities
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor	Crime and Punishment
Douglass, Frederick	Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Dreiser, Theodore	An American Tragedy
Dumas, Alexandre	The Three Musketeers
Eliot, George	The Mill on the Floss
Ellison, Ralph	Invisible Man
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	Selected Essays
Faulkner, William	As I Lay Dying

Faulkner, William	The Sound and the Fury
Fielding, Henry	Tom Jones
Fitzgerald, F. Scott	The Great Gatsby
Flaubert, Gustave	Madame Bovary
Ford, Ford Madox	The Good Soldier
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von	Faust
Golding, William	Lord of the Flies
Hardy, Thomas	Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Hawthorne, Nathaniel	The Scarlet Letter
Heller, Joseph	Catch-22
Hemingway, Ernest	A Farewell to Arms
Homer	The Iliad
Homer	The Odyssey
Hugo, Victor	The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hurston, Zora Neale	Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous	Brave New World
Ibsen, Henrik	A Doll's House
James, Henry	The Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry	The Turn of the Screw
Joyce, James	A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kafka, Franz	The Metamorphosis
Kingston, Maxine Hong	The Woman Warrior
Lee, Harper	To Kill a Mockingbird
Lewis, Sinclair	Babbitt
London, Jack	The Call of the Wild
Mann, Thomas	The Magic Mountain

Miller, Arthur	The Crucible
Morrison, Toni	Beloved
O'Connor, Flannery	A Good Man Is Hard to Find
O'Neill, Eugene	Long Day's Journey into Night
Orwell, George	Animal Farm
Pasternak, Boris	Doctor Zhivago
Plath, Sylvia	The Bell Jar
Poe, Edgar Allan	Selected Tales
Proust, Marcel	Swann's Way
Pynchon, Thomas	The Crying of Lot 49
Remarque, Erich Maria	All Quiet on the Western Front
Rostand, Edmond	Cyrano de Bergerac
Roth, Henry	Call It Sleep
Salinger, J.D.	The Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare, William	Hamlet
Shakespeare, William	Macbeth
Shakespeare, William	A Midsummer Night's Dream

Marquez, Gabriel García	One Hundred Years of Solitude
Melville, Herman	Bartleby the Scrivener
Melville, Herman	Moby Dick