Outstanding Books for the College Bound - 2004
These books offer opportunities to discover new ideas and provide an introduction to the fascinating variety of subjects within an academic discipline. The list is organized into five academic disciplines and includes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, biography and drama, focusing on titles that have been published during the past five years.
HISTORY
Alexander, Caroline. The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary
Antarctic Expedition. (919.9 Al26e)
Aronson, Marc. Witch Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials.
(j974.45)
Berg, A. Scott. Lindbergh. (921 L641be)
Carroll, Andrew. War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence
from American Wars. (355.0092 W195)
Danticat, Edwidge. The Farming of Bones. (Fic)
Ellis, Joseph E. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation.
(973.4 El59f)
Frank, Mitch. Understanding September 11, Answering Questions
about the Attacks on America. (j974.71044)
Geras, Adele. Troy. (YA Fic)
Glancy, Diane. Stone Heart: A Novel of Sacajawea. (Fic)
Hansen, Drew D. The Dream: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech
That Inspired a Nation.
(921 K585ha)
Harper, Kenn. Give Me My Father's Body: The Life of Minik,
the New York Eskimo. (921 W15515h)
Lanier, Shannon. Jefferson's Children: The Story of One American
Family. (921 J3593la)
Heat Moon, William Least. Columbus in the Americas. (970.015
H351c)
Marrin, Albert. Terror of the Spanish Main, Sir Henry Morgan
and His Buccaneers. (j910.45)
McCullough, David. John Adams. (921 Ad18m)
Poets of World War II. (811.52 P752)
Rogasky, Barbara. Smoke and Ashes: The Story of the Holocaust.
(j940.5315, 940.5318 R63s)
Sagas of Icelanders: A Selection. (839.63 Sa18)
Starkey, David. Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII. (921
H396E8st)
Tuchman, Barbara. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century.
(944.025 T79d)
Ung, Loung. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia
Remembers. (959.604 Un3AAf)
Von Drehle, David. Triangle: The Fire That Changed America.
(974.71 V894t)
Watson, Peter. The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of
the 20th Century.
Weatherford, Jack. Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas
Transformed the World. (970.00497 W378i)
Winchester, Simon. Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August
27, 1883. (551.21 W721k)
HUMANITIES
Adler, Sabine. Lovers in Art.
Belloli, Andrea P. Exploring World Art.
Bissinger, H.G. Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a
Dream. (796.332 B544f)
Blackstone, Harry Jr. The Blackstone Book of Magic & Illusion.
(793.8 B567b)
Brassai. Brassai: Letters to My Parents.
Card, Orson Scott. Sarah. (Fic)
Chevalier, Tracy. Girl With a Pearl Earring. (YA Fic, Fic)
Corio, David. The Black Chord.
Coulton, Larry. Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball and
Honor on the Little Big Horn. (796.323 C722c)
Crutcher, Chris. Whale Talk. (YA Fic)
Franck, Frederick (ed.) What Does It Mean to be Human? Reverence
for Life Reaffirmed by Responses From Around the World.
Garfunkel, Trudy. On Wings of Joy: The Story of Ballet from
the 16th Century to Today.
Goldberg, Myla. Bee Season. (Fic)
Greenberg, Jan. Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth
Century American Art. (j811.6)
Hedges, Chris. War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. (355.02
H358w)
Howe, Peter. Shooting Under Fire: The World of the War Photographer.
King, Ross. Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented
Architecture. (726.6 K586b)
Light, Alan. The Vibe History of Hip Hop.
Livingstone, Lili Cockerville. American Indian Ballerinas.
McGreevey, Tom and Yeck, Joanne. Our Movie Heritage.
Perry, John. Encyclopedia of Acting Techniques.
Sandler, Martin W. Photography: An Illustrated History.
(j770.9)
Smith, Huston. Illustrated World Religions.
Vreeland, Susan. The Passion of Artemisia. (Fic)
LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE
ARTS
Abelove, Joan. Go and Come Back. (YA Fic)
Allison, Dorothy. Bastard out of Carolina. (Fic)
Alvarez, Julia. In the Time of Butterflies. (Fic)
Anderson, Laurie Halse. Speak. (YA Fic)
Anderson, M.T. Feed. (Juv Fic SF)
Bagdasarian, Adam. Forgotten Fire. (YA Fic)
Chambers, Aidan. Postcards from No Man's Land. (YA Fic)
Cisneros, Sandra. Caramelo. (Fic)
Frank, E. R. Life is Funny. (YA Fic)
Foster, Thomas. How to Read Literature Like a Professor: a
Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines.
Kaplow, Robert. Me and Orson Welles. (Fic)
Kingsolver, Barbara. The Bean Trees. (Fic)
Mah, Adeline. Chinese Cinderella: the True Story of an Unwanted
Daughter. (j921 M2777AAc)
Myers, Walter Dean. Monster. (YA Fic)
Nye, Naomi Shihab. 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle
East. (j811.54)
O'Connor, Patricia. Woe is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better
English in Plain English.
(428.2 Oc55w)
Pullman, Philip. The Golden Compass. (Juv Fic SF)
Reynolds, Sheri. A Gracious Plenty. (Fic)
Sapphire. Push.
Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis.
Sebold, Alice. Lucky. (362.883 Se22l)
Shakur, Tupac. A Rose that Grew from Concrete. (811.54
Sh15r)
Smith, Anna Deveare. Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights and
Other Identities.
Weyr, Garret. My Heartbeat. (YA Fic)
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Bradshaw, Gillian. The Sand-Reckoner. (Fic)
Brown, David. Inventing Modern America: From the Microwave
to the Mouse. (609.73 B812i)
Bryson, Bill. A Short History of Nearly Everything. (500
B848s)
Enzensberger, Hans. The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure.
(Juv Fic SF)
Fagan, Bryan. The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History,
1300-1850.
Feynman, Richard. What Do You Care What People Think? Further
Adventures of a Curious Character. (921 F438Aw)
Flannery, Sarah. In Code: A Mathematical Journey. (921
F614AAi)
Hawking, Steven. The Universe in a Nutshell. (523.1 H313u)
Horvitz, Leslie A. Eureka!: Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed
the World.
Hoyt, Erich and Ted Schultz, eds. Insect Lives.
Judson, Olivia. Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation: the
Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex. (591.56
J925d)
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. (664.024 L179d)
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. (551.6 N174e)
Nolen, Stephanie. Promised the Moon: The Untold Story of the
First Women in the Space Race.
Porter, Roy. Madness: A Brief History. (362.2 P835m)
Preston, Richard. The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story.
(614.521 P926d)
Rigden, John S. Hydrogen: The Essential Element.
Roach, Mary. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers.
(611 R53s)
Sobel, Dava. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who
Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time. (527.2
So12l)
Stark, Peter. Last Breath: Cautionary Tales from the Limits
of Human Endurance.
Strauch, Barbara. Primal Teen: What the New Discoveries about
the Teenage Brain Help Us About Our Kids. (305.235 St82p)
Sykes, Bryan. The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science that
Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry.
(573.2 Sy44s)
Tobin, James. Great Projects: The Epic Story of the Building
of America from the Taming of the Mississippi to the Invention
of the Internet. (620.009 T553g)
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Albom, Mitch. Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man,
and Life's Greatest Lesson.
(921 Sch955al)
Best, Joel. Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers
From the Media, Politicians, and Activists. (300.72 B464d)
Conover, Ted. Newjack, Guarding Sing Sing. (365.9747 C763n)
Corwin, Miles. And Still We Rise: The Trials and Triumphs of
Twelve Gifted Inner-City High School Students.
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. (306.08 D299l)
Dershowitz, Alan M. Why Terrorism Works: Understanding the
Threat, Responding to the Challenge. (303.625 D488w)
Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies.
(303.4 D541g)
Doyle, William. An American Insurrection: The Battle of Oxford,
Mississippi, 1962.
Ehrenreich, Barbara. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By
in America. (305.569 Eh84n)
Haddon, Mark. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
(YA Fic, Fic)
Hart, Elva Trevino. The Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant
Child. (921 H25AAb)
Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner. (Fic)
Katz, Jon. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of
Idaho.
Latifa. My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban: A
Young Woman's Story.
(305.486971 L348m)
Martinez, Ruben. Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant
Trail.
Pipher, Mary. The Middle of Everywhere: The World's Refugees
Come to Our Town. (325.21 P661m)
Salzman, Mark. True Notebooks. (364.36 Sa39t)
Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American
Meal. (338.766 Sch39f)
Senna, Danzy. Caucasia. (Fic)
Simon, Rachel. Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey.
(921 Si55AAr)
Smith, Zadie. White Teeth. (Fic)
Steinberg, Jacques. The Gatekeepers: Inside the Admissions
Process of a Premier College.
Turner, Sugar and Tracy Bachrach Ehlers. Sugar's Life in the
Hood: The Story of a Former Welfare Mother.
Wheelan, Charles. Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science.
(330 W56n)
4/26/04
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