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Outstanding and Recommended Books

for College Bound Students

and Lifelong Learners
All titles listed are available in the

Curtis Senior High School Library

2014
Nonfiction


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Abraham Lincoln: the war years by Carl Sandburg

Act one: an autobiography by Moss Hart

Alive: the story of the Andes survivors by Piers Paul Read

All the President’s men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward

Anne Frank: the diary of a young girl by Anne Frank
Anne Frank remembered: the story of the woman who helped to hide the

Frank family by Miep Gies

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

Beautiful boy: a father’s journey through his son’s addiction by David

Sheff


Bite of the mango by Mariatu Kamara
Bitterly divided: the South’s inner Civil War by David Williams

Black boy: a record of childhood and youth by Richard Wright

Black dance in America: a history through its people by James Haskins

Black music in America: a history through its people by James Haskins

Bloods: an oral history of the Vietnam War by Wallace Terry
Body project: an intimate history of American girls by Joan Jacobs

Blumberg


Botany of desire: a plant’s-eye view of the world by Michael Pollan

Born standing up: a comic’s life by Steve Martin

Botany of desire: a plant’s-eye view of the world by Michael Pollan

Boy who harnessed the wind: creating currents of electricity and hope by

William Kamkwamba
Brief history of time: from the big bang to black holes by Stephen

Hawking


Bury my heart at Wounded Knee: an Indian history of the American West

by Dee Brown

Chinese Cinderella: the true story of an unwanted daughter by Adeline

Mah


Clarence Darrow for the defense by Irving stone

Colleges that change lives: 40 schools that will change the way you think

about colleges by Loren Pope

Common sense by Thomas Paine

Cosmos by Carl Sagan
Damned lies and statistics: untangling numbers from the media,

politicians, and activists by Joel Best

Day one: before Hiroshima and after by Peter Wyden

Days of grace: a memoir by Arthur Ashe and Arnold Rampersad

Dear America: letters home from Vietnam, Bernard Edelman, editor

Death be not proud: a memoir by John Gunther


Death of a salesman by Arthur Miller

Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

Devil’s highway: a true story by Luis Alberto Urrea

Devil’s teeth: a true story of obsession and survival among America’s

great white sharks by Susan Casey

Divine comedy by Dante Alighieri


Eagle blue: a team, a tribe, and a high school basketball season in Arctic

Alaska by Michael D’Orso

Eight men out: the Black Sox and the 1919 World Series by Eliot Asinof

Elements of library research: what every student needs to know by Mary

George

Eric by Doris Lund



Everything we had: an oral history of the Vietnam War by thirty-three

American soldiers who fought it, Al Santoli, editor


Eyes on the prize: America’s civil rights years 1954-1965 by Juan

Williams


Favorite folktales from around the world, Jane Yolen, editor

Fermat’s enigma: the epic quest to solve the world’s greatest

mathematical problem by Simon Singh

First freedom: the tumultuous history of free speech in America by Nat

Hentoff

First they killed my father: a daughter of Cambodia remembers by Loung



Ung
From clueless to class act: manners for the modern man by Jodi Smith

From clueless to class act: manners for the modern woman by Jodi Smith

Girls like us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon---and the journey of

a generation by Sheila Weller

Glass castle: a memoir by Jeannette Walls

Going over to your place: poems for each other, selected by Paul B.

Janeczko

Good war: an oral history of World War Two by Studs Terkel

Gorillas in the mist by Dian Fossey

Greasy rider: two dudes, one fry-oil-powered car, and a cross-country

search for a greener future by Greg Melville

Green book: the everyday guide to saving the planet one simple step at a

time by Elizabeth Rogers
Growing up by Russell Baker

Having our say: the Delany sisters’ first one hundred years by Sara and

Elizabeth Delany

Here I stand: a life of Martin Luther by Roland H. Bainton

Hiroshima by John Hersey

History of art by H.W. Janson and Anthony F. Janson


Hitler, a study in tyranny by Alan Louis Bullock

Hungry planet: what the world eats by Peter Menzel

I know why the caged bird sings by Maya Angelou

In search of excellence: lessons from America’s best run companies by

Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman

In search of meaning: living religions of the world by Carl Voss


In search of Schrodinger’s cat: quantum physics and reality by John Gribbon

In these girls, hope is a muscle by Madeleine Blais

Into thin air: a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster by John

Krakauer


Joy of music by Leonard Bernstein

Kaffir boy: the true story of a black youth’s coming of age in Apartheid

South Africa by Mark Mathabane
Lakota woman by Mary Brave Bird (Crow Dog) and Richard Erdoes

Land of our own: an oral autobiography by Golda Meir

Let me play: the story of Title IX, the law that changed the future of

girls in America by Karen Blumenthal

Let the trumpet sound: the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Stephen B.

Oates


Long day’s journey into night by Eugene O’Neill
Long walk to freedom: runaway slave narratives

Long way gone: memoirs of a boy soldier by Ishmael Beah

Longitude: the true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest

scientific problem of his time by Dava Sobel

Lucky by Alice Sebold
Maggie’s American dream: the life and times of a black family by James P.

Comer


Magical life of Long Tack Sam by Anne Marie Fleming

Making movies work: thinking like a filmmaker by Jon Boorstin

Malcolm X: a life of reinvention by Manning Marable

Master of deceit: J. Edgar Hoover and America in the age of lies by

Marc Aronson
Maus: a survivor’s tale by Art Spiegelman

Maus II, a survivor’s tale: here my troubles began by Art Spiegelman

Middle of everywhere: helping refugees enter the American community by

Mary Bray Pipher

Mosque by David Macaulay

My start-up life: what a (very) young CEO learned on his journey through

Silicon Valley by Ben Casnocha
Mythology by Edith Hamilton

Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave by

Frederick Douglass

Napoleon by David Chandler

Never to forget: the Jews of the Holocaust by Milton Meltzer

Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie


Night by Elie Weisel

Out law: what LGBT youth should know about their legal rights by Lisa

Keen

Out of orbit: the true story of how three astronauts found themselves



hundreds of miles above the earth with no way home by Chris Jones

Paula by Isabel Allende

Photographer’s handbook by John Hedgecoe
Portrait of myself by Margaret Bourke-White

Power of myth by Joseph Campbell

Power of photographs: how photography changed our lives by Vicki

Goldberg


Profiles in courage by John F. Kennedy

Race beat: the press, the civil rights struggle, and the awakening of a

nation by Gene Roberts
Race to save the Lord God Bird by Phillip Hoose

Radioactive boy scout: the frightening true story of a whiz kid and his

homemade nuclear reactor by Ken Silverstein

Rape of Nanking: the forgotten holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang

Red scarf girl: a memoir of the cultural revolution by Ji-li Jiang

Rescue: the story of how gentiles saved the Jews in the Holocaust by

Milton Meltzer

Reviving Ophelia: saving the selves of adolescent girls by Mary Pipher

Right stuff by Tom Wolfe

Roots by Alex Haley

Roosevelt family of Sagamore Hill by Hermann Hagedorn

Scottsboro Boys in Their Own Words: Selected Letters, 1931-1950


Search for King Arthur by David Day

Second wind: the memoirs of an opinionated man by Bill Russell and Taylor

Branch

Seven storey mountain by Thomas Merton



Silent spring by Rachel Carson

Small victories: the real world of a teacher, her students, and their high

school by Samuel G. Freedman
Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers by Mary Roach

Sonnets: songs and poems of Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Super crunchers: why thinking-by-numbers is the new way to be smart by

Ian Ayres

Taste of sweet: our complicated love affair with our favorite treats by

Joanne Chen

Terror in the name of God: why religious militants kill by Jessica Stern
There are no children here: the story of two boys growing up in the other

America by Alex Kotlowitz

This life by Sidney Poitier

Tipping point: how little things can make a big difference by Malcolm

Gladwell

Tisha: the story of a young teacher in the Alaska wilderness by Anne

Pardy

Tribe apart: a journey into the heart of American adolescence by Patricia



Hersch
Tuesdays with Morrie: an old man, a young man and life’s greatest lesson

by Mitch Albom

Tweak: growing up on methamphetamines by Nic Sheff

Unbroken: a World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemption

by Laura Hillenbrand

Undaunted courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the

opening of the American west by Stephen E. Ambrose

Up from slavery: an autobiography by Booker T. Washington


Voice that challenged a nation: Marian Anderson and the struggle for

equal rights by Russell Freedman

Voices of AIDS: twelve unforgettable people talk about how AIDS has

changed their lives by Michael Thomas Ford

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Warriors don’t cry by Melba Beals

Way we work: getting to know the amazing human body by David Macaulay

Weather makers: how man is changing the climate and what it means for

life on earth by Tim Flannery

What color is your parachute? : a practical manual for job-hunters and

career-changers by Richard Nelson Bolles

What to listen for in music by Aaron Copland


Wheelchair warrior: gangs, disability, and basketball by Melvin Juette

Who the hell is Pansy O’Hara? : the fascinating stories behind 50 of the

world’s best-loved books by Jenny Bond

Woman in the mists: the story of Dian Fossey and the mountain gorillas of

Africa by Farley Mowat

Woman warrior: memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts by Maxine Hong

Kingston
Worst hard time: the untold story of those who survived the Great

American Dust Bowl

Yankee from Olympus: Justice Holmes and his family by Catherine

Drinker Bowen










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1984 by George Orwell

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Absolute true diary of a part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie

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Accidental tourist by Anne Tyler

FIC CER

Adventures of Don Quixote de al Mancha by Maguel del Saavedra Certantes

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Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle







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All quiet on the western front by Erich Maria Remarque

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All the king’s men by Robert Penn Warren

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American tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

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Andromeda strain by Michale Crichton

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Animal dreams by Barbara Kingsolver







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Animal farm by George Orwell

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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

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Arrowsmith

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Astonishing life of Octavian Nothing, traitor to the nation, Vol 1: the Pox Party

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Astonishing life of Octavian Nothing, traitor to the nation, Vol 2: the kingdom on the waves by M. T. Anderson

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Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines

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Bastard out of Caroline by Dorothy Allison

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Bean trees by Barbara Kingsolver







FIC MCK

Beauty by Robin McKinley

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Bell for Adano by John Hersey

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Bell jar by Sylvia Plath

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Beloved by Toni Morrison

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Book thief by Markey Zusak







FIC HUX

Brave new world by Aldous Huxley

FIC YOL

Briar Rose by Jane Yoken

FIC WOU

Caine mutiny by Herman Wouk

FIC LON

Call of the wild by Jack London

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Catch-22 by Joseph Heller







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Catcher in the rye by J. D. Salinger

FIC VON

Cat’s cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

FIC LEE

China boy by Gus Lee

FIC COR

Chocolate war by Robert Cormier

FIC POT

Chosen by Chaim Potok







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Code name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

FIC FRA

Cold mountain by Charles Frazier

FIC OLM

Coldest night by Robert Olmstead

FIC WAL

Color purple by Alice Walker

FIC POE

Complete tales and poems by Edgar Allan Poe







FIC DUM

Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Duman

FIC DOS

Crime and punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

FIC PAT

Cry, the beloved country by Alan Paton

FIC HAD

Curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon

FIC DIC

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens







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Death in the family by James Agee

FIC STO

Dracula by Bram Stoker

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Dune by Frank Herbert

FIC STE

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

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Ella Minnow Pea: a novel in letters by Mark Dunn







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Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons

FIC CAR

Ender’s game by Orson Scott Card

FIC WHA

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

FIC OCO

Everything that rises must converge by Flannery O’Connor

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Extremely loud & incredibly close by Sung J. Woo







FIC BRA

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

FIC POE

Fall of the House of Usher, and other tales by Edgar Allan Poe

FIC HAR

Far from the madding crowd by Thomas Hardy

FIC HEM

Farewell to arms by Ernest Hemingway

FIC TUR

Fathers and sons by Ivan Turgenev







FIC GRE

Fault in our stars by John Green

FIC AND

Feed by M. T. Anderson

FIC KEY

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

FIC HEM

For whom the bell tolls by Ernest Hemingway

FIC BAG

Forgotten fire by Adam Bagdasarian







FIC BAL

Go tell it on the mountain by James Baldwin

FIC KYL

God of animals by Aryn Kyle

FIC OBR

Going after Cacciato: a novel by Tim O’Brien

FIC PUL

Golden compass by Philip Pullman

FIC MIT

Gone with the wind by Margaret Mitchell







FIC STE

Grapes of wrath by John Steinbeck

FIC DIC

Great expectations by Charles Dickens

FIC HUD

Green mansions by W. H. Hudson

FIC GAR

Grendel by John Gardner

FIC SWI

Gulliver’s travels by Jonathan Swift







FIC ATW

Handmaid’s tale by Margaret Atwood

FIC MCC

Heart is a lonely hunter by Carson McCullers

FIC CON

Heart of darkness by Joseph Conrad

FIC CIS

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

FIC ALV

How the Garcia girls lost their accents







FIC GRE

I never promised you a rose garden

FIC BAL

If Beale Street could talk by James Baldwin

FIC MAS

In country by Bobbie Anne Mason

FIC BRO

Inferno: a novel by Dan Brown

FIC ALI

Inferno by Dante Alighieri







FIC ELL

Invisible man by Ralph Ellison

FIC CRE

Invisibility by Andrea Cremer and David Levithan

FIC SCO

Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott

FIC BRO

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

FIC TAN

Joy luck club by Amy Tan

FIC SIN

Jungle by Upton Sinclair

FIC MUR

Kafka on the shore by Haruki Murakami







FIC STE

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

FIC SHA

Killer angels by Michael Shaara

FIC REN

King must die by Mary Renault

FIC HOS

Kits runner by Khaled Hosseini

FIC GAI

Lesson before dying by Ernest J. Gaines







FIC PEE

Life: an exploded diagram by Mal Peet

FIC FRA

Life is funny by E. R. Frank

FIC SAI

Little prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

FIC WOL

Look homeward angel: a story of a buried life by Thomas Wolfe

FIC GRE

Looking for Alaska by John Green







FIC CON

Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

FIC BRO

Lost symbol: a novel by Dan Brown

FIC STO

Lose is eternal by Irving Stone

FIC FLA

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

FIC LEW

Main Street by Sinclair Lewis







FIC BRA

Martian chronicles by Ray Bradbury

FIC MCC

Member of the wedding by Carson McCullers

FIC ELI

Mill on the floss by George Eliot

FIC JON

Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones

FIC MEL

Moby Dick by Herman Melville







FIC MYE

Monster by Walter Dean Myers

FIC COL

Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

FIC HEA

Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones by Ann Head

FIC SLO

Mr. Penumbra’s 24-hour bookstore: a novel by Robin Sloan

FIC CAT

My Antonia by Willa Cather







FIC FRE

My heartbeat by Garret Freymann-Weyr

FIC WRI

Native son by Richard Wright

FIC MAR

Nectar in a sieve by Kamala Markandaya

FIC ISH

Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro

FIC MAL

Night birds by Thomas Maltman







FIC PIC

Nineteen minutes by Jodi Picoult

FIC ROB

Northwest Passage by Kenneth Roberts

FIC AVE

Nothing but the truth by Avi

FIC MAU

Of human bondage by William Somerset Maugham

FIC STE

Of mice and men by John Steinbeck

FIC GRE

Of such small differences by Joanne Greenberg

FIC HEM

Old man and the sea by Ernest Hemingway







FIC WHI

Once and future king by T. H. White

FIC SOL

One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

FIC KES

One flew over the cuckoo’s nest by Ken Kesey

FIC KOS

Painted bird by Jerzy N. Kosinski

FIC BAL

Pere Goriot by Honore de Blazac







FIC WIL

Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

FIC FOL

Pillars of the earth by Ken Follett

FIC ROT

The plot against America by Stephen Crane

FIC JOY

Portrait of an artist as a young man by James Joyce

FIC BRI

Postman by David Brin







FIC AUS

Pride and prejudice by Jane Austen

FIC CRA

Red badge of courage by Stephen Crane

FIC MCC

Road by Cormac McCarthy

FIC STO

Rosencrantz & Gildenstern are dead by Tom Stoppard

FIC SAE

Sammy & Juliana in Hollywood by Benjamin Alire Saenz







FIC KEN

Schindler’s list by Thomas Keneally

FIC RIC

Sea of grass by Conrad Richter

FIC KID

Secret life of bees by Sue Monk Kidd

FIC BAC

Ship breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi

FIC MOR

Shizuko’s daughter by Kyoko Mori







FIC HES

Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

FIC VON

Slaughterhouse five; or, the children’s crusade by Kurt Vonnegut

FIC MCC

Sold by Patricia McCormick

FIC CAM

Someday this pain will be useful to you by Peter Cameron

FIC MOR

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison







FIC HES

Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse

FIC CAM

Stranger by Albert Camus

FIC MOR

Sula by Toni Morrison

FIC MYE

Sunrise over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers

FIC BRA

Sweetness at the bottom of the pie: a Flavia de Luce novel by Alan Bradley







FIC DIC

Tale of two cities by Charles Dickens

FIC KEL

Tell me that you love me, Junie Moon by Marjorie Kellogg

FIC CRI

Terminal man by Michael Crickton

FIC HUR

Their eyes were watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

FIC ACH

Things fall apart by Chinua Achebe

FIC OBR

Things they carried: a work of fiction by Tim O’Brien







FIC WEL

Time machine by H. G. Wells

FIC LEE

To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee

FIC MAS

Torn by David Massey

FIC STO

Uncle Tom’s cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

FIC TOL

War and peace by Leo Tolstoy







FIC BEA

Warriors don’t cry by Melba Beals

FIC GRU

Water for elephants by Sara Gruen

FIC MOW

Way past cool by Jesse Mowry

FIC EGG

What is what: the autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng: a novel by Dave Eggers

FIC BOR

When legends die by Hal Borland







FIC MAG

Wicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the West: a novel by Gregory Maguire

FIC BRO

Wuthering heights by Emily Bronte

FIC RAW

Yearling by Marjorie Rawllings

FIC DOR

Yellow raft on blue water by Michael Dorris








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