Awards search:ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

African Exodus: The Origins of Modern Humanity

by Christopher Stringer
Hardcover, 1997
Tags
human evolution, prehistory, history, Africa, anthropology
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
599.938

Angela's Ashes: A Memoir

by Frank McCourt
Paperback, 1999
Tags
Ireland, poverty, memoir, addiction
Collection
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Series
Frank McCourt's Memoirs (1)
Status
Available
Call number
929.20899162073

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

by Malcolm X
Paperback, 1966
Tags
African-American, American history, history, Islam, racism, autobiography
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
320.54092

Awakening

by Kate Chopin
Paperback, 1964
Tags
American literature, fiction, women, feminism, American South
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
813.4

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

by Katherine Boo
Hardcover, 2011
Tags
India, poverty, journalism
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
305.5/690954792

Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth

by Richard Wright
Paperback, 2007
Tags
American literature, fiction, African-American, racism, social history, history, American South, autobiography
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
813.52

The Book Thief

by Markus Zusak
Hardcover, 2006
Tags
books, Holocaust, historical fiction, World War II, history
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
823.92

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley
Hardcover, 1946
Tags
English literature, fiction, science fiction, speculative fiction, dystopia, totalitarianism, International Collectors Library, {rscn}
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
823.912

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley
Paperback, 1969
Tags
dystopia, speculative fiction, English literature, fiction, Perennial Classic, science fiction, social psychology, satire, totalitarianism, futurism, sleep learning
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
823.912

A Brief History of Time: from the big bang to black holes

by Stephen Hawking
Paperback, 1989
Tags
astronomy, cosmology, quantum mechanics, time, relativity, science
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
523.1

Catch-22

by Joseph Heller
Paperback, 1963
Tags
American literature, fiction, military, dark humor, absurdism, historical fiction, existentialism, satire, World War II, history, pacifism
Collection
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Series
Catch-22 (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813

The Chosen

by Chaim Potok
Paperback, 1967
Tags
American literature, fiction, coming of age, Judaica, New York
Collection
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Series
The Chosen (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Civilization

by Kenneth Clarke
Hardcover, 1969
Tags
civilization, Europe, world history, history, art, art history, cultural history
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
901.9

Cold Mountain

by Charles Frazier
Hardcover, 1997
Tags
American literature, fiction, American Civil War, historical fiction, American South
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

by Jared Diamond
Paperback, 2005
Tags
anthropology, civilization, ecology, world history, history, sociology, environment
Collection
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Series
Civilizations Rise and Fall (2)
Status
Available
Call number
304.28

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Paperback, 1969
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin black 1, Russian literature, fiction, crime, existentialism
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
813

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

by Mark Haddon
Paperback, 2004
Tags
English literature, fiction, mystery, coming of age, mental illness, autism
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
813

A Death in the Family

by James Agee
Paperback, 2009
Tags
American literature, fiction, autobiographical fiction, Penguin Classics, Penguin black 3, {je}, non-PC
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
813.52

Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem

by Arthur Miller
Paperback, 1998
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin black 3, American literature, drama
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
812.52

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

by Barbara W. Tuchman
Paperback, 1978
Tags
plague, Black Death, France, Britain, Europe, Middle Ages, Crusades, world history, history
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
944.025

The Double Helix

by James D. Watson
Paperback, 1969
Tags
biology, biography, history of science, history, evolution, genetics, chemistry, Mentor book
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
576

The Eyre Affair

by Jasper Fforde
Paperback, 2003
Tags
English literature, fiction, fantasy, speculative fiction, metafiction, alternate history, humor, mystery, time travel, detective
Collection
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Series
Thursday Next (1)
Status
Available
Call number
823.92

Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway
Paperback, 1982
Tags
other classics series, American literature, fiction, military, World War I, modernism
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
813.52

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

by Eric Schlosser
Paperback, 2002
Tags
nutrition, health, sociology, gastronomy, food politics, consumerism, cultural studies, medicine
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
394.10973

The Fixer

by Bernard Malamud
Paperback, 1994
Tags
Penguin 20th-century Classics, Penguin Classics, American literature, fiction, Judaica, crime, historical fiction, antisemitism
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
813.54

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck
Hardcover, 1939
Tags
Modern Library Classics, American literature, fiction, agriculture, historical fiction, immigrants, poverty, California, Great Depression
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
813.52

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck
Paperback, 1978
Tags
Penguin Classics, American literature, fiction, agriculture, historical fiction, immigrants, poverty, California, Great Depression
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
813.52

The Grapes of Wrath (Facsimile edition)

by John Steinbeck
Hardcover, 1990
Tags
American literature, fiction, agriculture, historical fiction, poverty, California, Great Depression
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
813.52

Grendel

by John Gardner
Paperback, 1974
Tags
American literature, fiction, Middle Ages, historical fiction, existentialism, epic, mythology, fantasy, dragon, speculative fiction, Anglo-Saxon
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

by Jared M. Diamond
Paperback, 1999
Tags
civilization, sociology, ethnology, ecology, geography, agriculture, world history, history, anthropology, evolution, weapons
Collection
Your library
Series
Civilizations Rise and Fall (1)
Status
Available
Call number
303.4

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood
Paperback, 1998
Tags
Canadian literature, fiction, science fiction, speculative fiction, feminism, dystopia, women, unreliable narrator
Collection
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Series
The Handmaid's Tale (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Hiroshima

by John Hersey
Paperback, 1968
Tags
Japan, World War II, history
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
940.544

How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines

by Thomas C. Foster
Paperback, 2003
Tags
literature, literary criticism
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
808

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

by Maya Angelou
Paperback, 1971
Tags
memoir, African-American, American literature, autobiography, coming of age, racism
Collection
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Series
Maya Angelou's Autobiographies (1)
Status
Available
Call number
818.54092

Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World

by Jack Weatherford
Paperback, 1989
Tags
Native American, world history, history, civilization, culinary, American history
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
970.00497

Invisible Man

by Ralph Ellison
Paperback, 1972
Tags
American literature, fiction, racism, African-American, coming of age, existentialism, Harlem Renaissance, doppelganger
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
813

Kafka on the Shore

by Haruki Murakami
Paperback, 2005
Tags
Japanese literature, fiction, magical realism, speculative fiction, surrealism, fantasy
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
895.635

King Lear

by William Shakespeare
Paperback, 1970
Tags
Shakespeare, English literature, fiction, drama, aging, tragedy
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
822.33

King Lear

by William Shakespeare
Paperback, 1963
Tags
Signet Classics, Signet Classics 1, Shakespeare, English literature, fiction, drama, aging, tragedy, Signet Shakespeare
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
822.33

The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini
Paperback, 2004
Tags
American literature, fiction, historical fiction, coming of age, Middle East
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
813.6

The Most Beautiful House in the World

by Witold Rybczynski
Paperback, 1990
Tags
architecture, house, design, social history, history
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
728.373092

Mythology

by Edith Hamilton
Hardcover, 1942
Tags
mythology, hero, classical mythology
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
290

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave

by Frederick Douglass
Paperback, 1982
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin black 2, African-American, slavery, autobiography, slave narrative, abolition
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
326.0924

Native Son: And How Bigger Was Born

by Richard Wright
Paperback, 1993
Tags
American literature, fiction, African-American, crime, racism, Chicago, Harlem Renaissance
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
813.52

Nectar in a Sieve

by Kamala Markandaya
Paperback, 2002
Tags
Signet Classics 2, Signet Classics, India, poverty, historical fiction, fiction, women, rural life
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
823.914

Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro
Paperback, 2006
Tags
English literature, fiction, science fiction, speculative fiction, dystopia, boarding school, genetic engineering
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
823.914

Nicholas and Alexandra

by Robert K. Massie
Paperback, 1985
Tags
Russia, World War I, Russian Revolution, biography, history
Collection
Your library
Series
The Romanovs (3)
Status
Available
Call number
947.0830922

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

by Barbara Ehrenreich
Paperback, 2002
Tags
journalism, poverty, American culture, economics, sociology, labor, social class
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
305.569092

No Exit and Three Other Plays

by Jean-Paul Sartre
Paperback, 1961
Tags
French literature, fiction, drama, existentialism, philosophy
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
842.914

The Odyssey

by Homer
Hardcover, 1944
Tags
Greek literature, fiction, epic, Classics Club
Collection
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Series
Homer's Epic Cycle (2)
Status
Available
Call number
883.01
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