Awards search:ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

by Bill Bryson
Ebook, 2010
Tags
19th century, nonfiction, history, humor
Collection
Read but unowned
Status
Available
Call number
643.1

Beloved

by Toni Morrison
Hardcover, 1987
Tags
19th century, America, American Midwest, fiction
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

The Book Thief

by Markus Zusak
Paper Book, 2005
Tags
20th century, fiction, Germany, Holocaust
Collections
Read but unowned, 5-star books
Status
Available
Call number
[Fic]

A Brief History of Time

by Stephen Hawking
Ebook, 1998
Tags
nonfiction, science
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
523.1

Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance genius reinvented architecture

by Ross King
Ebook, 2001
Tags
nonfiction, 14th century, Italy, Florence, Brunelleschi, architects
Collections
Read but unowned, Read in 2015
Status
Available
Call number
726.6/0945/51

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian history of the American West

by Dee Brown
Ebook, 2012
Tags
nonfiction, history, 19th century, American West, Native Americans
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
978/.00497

Code Name Verity

by Elizabeth Wein
Ebook, 2012
Tags
fiction, historical fiction, 20th century, 1940s, England, France, World War II, espionage, badass women, undercover heroes, aviators
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2016
Series
Code Name Verity (1), Young Pilots (1)
Status
Available
Call number
[Fic]

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

by Erik Larson
Ebook, 2003
Tags
Nook
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
364.15230977311

The devil's highway : a true story

by Luis Alberto Urrea
Paper Book, 2005
Tags
nonfiction
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
304.873072

The Eyre Affair

by Jasper Fforde
Ebook, 2002
Collection
Read but unowned
Series
Thursday Next (1)
Status
Available
Call number
823

Five Days at Memorial: Life and death in a storm-ravaged hospital

by Sheri, Fink
Paper Book, 2013
Tags
nonfiction
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
362.1109763/35

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood
Ebook, 1998
Tags
fiction, dystopia, proto-feminist
Collections
Your library, eBooks, 5-star books
Series
The Handmaid's Tale (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813/.54

How to Read Literature like a Professor: A lively and entertaining guide to reading between the lines

by Thomas C. Foster
Paper Book, 2003
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
808

I know why the caged bird sings

Paper Book, ?
Tags
fix
Collection
Your library
Series
Maya Angelou's Autobiographies (1)
Status
Available
Call number
818.54092

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

by Maya Angelou
Paper Book, 2002
Tags
20th century, America, biography
Collection
Your library
Series
Maya Angelou's Autobiographies (1)
Status
Available
Call number
B

John Adams

by David G. McCullough
Ebook, 2001
Tags
nonfiction, history
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
973.4/4/092B

Kafka on the Shore

by Haruki Murakami
Ebook, 2005
Tags
fiction
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
895.635

The Killer Angels

by Michael Shaara
Paperback, 1987
Tags
America, 19th century, civil war, history, Mooched, nonfiction
Collection
Your library
Series
Civil War trilogy (2)
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Kindred

by Octavia E. Butler
Ebook, 2003
Tags
fiction, sci-fi/fantasy, 20th century, 1976, 19th century, California, Maryland, slavery, time travel, American Author Challenge Jan2016
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2017
Status
Available
Call number
813/.54

The knife of never letting go

by Patrick Ness
Ebook, 2009
Collection
Read but unowned
Series
Chaos Walking (1)
Status
Available
Call number
[Fic]

Longitude: The true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time

by Dava Sobel
Ebook, 1995
Tags
nonfiction, history, physical science
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
526.6209

The Member of the Wedding

by Carson McCullers
Ebook, 1997
Tags
fiction, 20th century, 1940s, American South, adolescence, girls named Frankie, American Author Challenge Jan2015, TIOLI Jan2015
Collections
Read but unowned, Read in 2015
Status
Available
Call number
812.54

Montana 1948

by Larry Watson
Ebook, 2007
Tags
fiction, 20th century, 1940s, 1948, American West, Montana, sexual assault, Native Americans, siblings, criminal justice system, family saga — 1 more, troublesome brothers
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2018, Read in 2015
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

by Robin Sloan
Paper Book, 2012
Tags
SantaThing2012
Collection
Your library
Series
Mr. Penumbra (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813/.6

Native Son

by Richard Wright
Paper Book, 1990
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
813.52

Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro
Ebook, 2005
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
823.92

The Other Wes Moore

by Wes Moore
Ebook, 2010
Collection
Read but unowned
Status
Available
Call number
975.2/6043092B

Our town, a play in three acts

by Thornton Wilder
Ebook, 1938
Collection
Read but unowned
Status
Available
Call number
812.52

Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

by Mary Roach
Paper Book, 2010
Tags
nonfiction, physical science, 21st century, space, exploration, Mars, moon landing, humor, SantaThing2012
Collections
Your library, Read in 2015
Status
Available
Call number
571.0919

Parable of the Sower

by Octavia E. Butler
Ebook, 2012
Tags
fiction
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Series
Earthseed (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

The Plot Against America

by Philip Roth
Paperback, 2005
Tags
fiction
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
813

Quiet: The power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking

by Susan Cain
Ebook, 2012
Tags
nonfiction
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
EBOOK155.2/32

The Road

by Cormac McCarthy
Ebook, 2006
Tags
fiction, dystopia, fathers and sons, too sad to re-read
Collections
Read but unowned, 5-star books
Status
Available
Call number
[Fic]

The round house

by Louise Erdrich
Ebook, 2012
Collection
Read but unowned
Series
Justice Trilogy (2)
Status
Available
Call number
813/.54

Salt: A world history

by Mark Kurlansky
Ebook, 2002
Tags
nook, nonfiction
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
553.63209

Schindler's List

by Thomas Keneally
Ebook, 2013
Tags
fiction
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
823

The seven daughters of Eve

by Bryan Sykes
Paper Book, 2001
Tags
nonfiction
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
599.93/5

Shakespeare: The World as Stage

by Bill Bryson
Ebook, 2007
Collection
Read but unowned
Status
Available
Call number
822.3/3B

The signal and the noise : why so many predictions--fail but some don't

by Nate Silver
Ebook, 2012
Tags
nonfiction
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
519.5/42

The Song of Achilles

by Madeline Miller
Ebook, 2012
Tags
fiction
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
EBOOK813/.6

The Souls of Black Folk

by W. E. B. du Bois
Paperback, 1995
Tags
history, America, 20th century, nonfiction
Collections
Your library, 5-star books
Status
Available
Call number
973.0496073

Speak

by Laurie Halse Anderson
Ebook, 2011
Tags
memoir
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
[Fic]

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

by Mary Roach
Paperback, 2004
Tags
health, 20th century, nonfiction
Collection
Read but unowned
Status
Available
Call number
611

To kill a mockingbird

by Harper Lee
Paper Book, 2004
Collection
Read but unowned
Series
To Kill a Mockingbird (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813

Water for Elephants

by Sara Gruen
Ebook, 2007
Collection
Read but unowned
Status
Available
Call number
EBOOK FIC GRUEN 2007

The Worst Hard Time: The untold story of those who survived the Great American Dust Bowl

by Timothy Egan
Ebook, 2006
Tags
nonfiction, history, 20th century, 1930s, American Midwest, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, Nebraska, agricultural mishaps — 2 more, natural disaster, Great Depression
Collections
Your library, eBooks, 5-star books, Read in 2016
Status
Available
Call number
978/.032
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