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- College Bound Reading List
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 List 1 - Numbers & A-I
- Numbers & A | B
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E | F | G
| H | I
- Genre Abbreviations:
Lit=literature, H=historical fiction or in pleasing narrative
form, Play=play, Bio=biography, Phil=philosophy, F=fantasy, SF=science
fiction, E=ethnic/multi-cultural
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Title (and Notes) |
Author |
Genre |
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1984 |
Orwell, Geo |
SF |
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea |
Verne, Jules |
SF |
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2001 |
Clarke, Arthur C |
SF |
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A Christmas Carole |
Dickens, Charles |
Lit |
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A Death in the Family (A young father dies-col+) Pul |
Agee, James |
Lit |
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A Farewell to Arms (col+) |
Hemingway, Ernest |
Lit |
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man? (col+) |
Joyce, James |
Lit |
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A Raisin in the Sun (col) |
Hansberry, Lorraine |
Play |
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A Streetcar Named Desire (col) |
Williams, Tennessee |
Play |
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A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther
King, Jr. (col) |
King Jr., Martin Luther |
Bio |
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
Smith, Betty |
Lit |
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A Yellow Raft in Blue Water (Nat. Amer Women-col+) |
Dorris, Michael |
Lit/E |
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The Accidental Tourist (col) |
Tyler |
Lit |
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Across Five Aprils (Civil War) |
Hunt, Irene |
Lit/H |
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (col) |
Twain, Mark |
Lit |
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Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (col) |
Doyle |
Lit |
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Adventures of Tom Sawyer (col) |
Twain, Mark |
Lit |
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (col+) |
Carroll, Lewis |
Lit |
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Alistair Cooke's America (col) |
Cooke, Alistair |
H |
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All Creatures Great & Small (Read) |
Herriot, James |
Lit |
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All the President's Men |
Berstein, Carl &
Woodward, Bob |
H |
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Animal Farm (col) |
Orwell, Geo |
Lit/H |
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Around the World in Eighty Days |
Verne, Jules |
Lit |
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As I Lay Dying (Col+) (Burial of mom/wife) |
Faulkner |
Lit |
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Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman(col+) |
Gaines, Earnest |
Lit |
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The Autobiography of Ben Franklin (col+-"most interesting
autobio in English") |
Franklin, Ben |
Bio |
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The Awakening |
Chopin, Kate |
Lit |
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Title (and Notes) |
Author |
Genre |
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The Bell Jar (col-12)+ |
Plath, Sylvia |
Lit |
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Beloved (col+) Pul |
Morrison, Toni |
Lit |
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Brave New World ?(Col++) (future of science & social) |
Huxley, Aldous |
SF |
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (col) |
Brown, Dee |
H |
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Title (and Notes) |
Author |
Genre |
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Call of the Wild (col+) |
London, Jack |
Lit |
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Childhood's End |
Clarke, Arthur C. |
SF |
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Children of a Lesser God (col) |
Medoff, Mark |
Play |
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Christy |
Marshall, Catharine |
Lit |
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Clan of the Cave Bear |
Auel, Jean |
Lit |
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The Color Purple (col) Pul |
Walker |
Lit |
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Contact |
Sagan, Carl |
SF |
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The Crystal Cave (Merlin) |
Stewart, Mary |
Lit |
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Title (and Notes) |
Author |
Genre |
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Dandelion Wine (col) |
Bradbury |
SF |
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Democracy in America (col) |
Tocqueville, Alex de |
Phil |
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The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial
New England (Salem Trails) (Col) |
Karlsen, Carol |
H |
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The Diary of a Young Girl (WWII)(col+) |
Frank, Anne |
Bio |
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The Divine Comedy |
Dante |
Play |
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Do They Hear You When You Cry? (Story of a legal case in
US of African woman fleeing abuse) |
Bashir, Lily Miller |
Bio |
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Doctor Faustus (1st drama of man who sold soul to devil)
(col) |
Marlowe, Chris |
Play |
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The Doll's House (col) |
Ibsen, Henrik |
Play |
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Don Quixote de la Mancha (col+) |
Cervantes, Miguel |
Lit |
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (col) |
Stevenson |
Lit |
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Dracula |
Stoker |
Lit |
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Dragonwings (chinese boy in San Francisco in 1900-Setting
goals) |
Yep, Laurence |
Lit |
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Title (and Notes) |
Author |
Genre |
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Title (and Notes) |
Author |
Genre |
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Fahrenheit 451(col+) |
Bradbury |
SF |
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Favorite Folktales from Around the World (col)(with historical
& lit signifance) |
Yolen, Jane |
Lit |
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Fiddler on the Roof |
Stein, Joseph |
Play |
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Flowers for Algernon (col) |
Keyes |
SF |
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The Foundation Series |
Asimov, Isaac |
SF |
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Frankenstein (col) |
Shelley, Mary |
Lit |
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Friendly Shakespeare: A Thoroughly Painless Guide to the
Best of the Bard (interpretations, anecdotes and insights) |
Epstein, Norrie |
Ref |
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Title (and Notes) |
Author |
Genre |
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Gateway |
Pohl, Fred |
SF |
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The Glass Menagerie |
Williams, Tennesse |
Play |
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Go Tell it on the Mountain (14 yo black religious conversion)
(col++) |
Baldwin, James |
Lit |
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The Good Earth (Col) (China 1860) |
Buck, Pearl |
Lit |
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Gone with the Wind (Pul) |
Mitchell, Margaret |
Lit |
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The Grab |
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Lit |
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The Grapes of Wrath (col)Pul 1930s |
Steinbeck, John |
Lit |
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Great Dialogues of Plato (col) "The Republic" |
Plato |
Phil |
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Great Expectations (col++) |
Dickens, Charles |
Lit |
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The Great Gatsby (col) |
Fitzgerald, F. Scott |
Lit |
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Growing Up (in Baltimore during Depression)(col) |
Baker, Russell |
Bio |
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Gulliver's Travels (col) |
Swift, Jon |
Lit |
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Title (and Notes) |
Author |
Genre |
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Hamlet (col) |
Shakespeare, William |
Play |
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Having Our Say: The Delany Sister's First Hundred Years
(daughters of former slaves)col |
Delany, Sara & A Eliz |
Bio |
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Heart of Darkness (col) |
Conrad, Joseph |
Lit |
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Hiroshima (6 survivors) |
Hersey, John |
Bio |
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The Hobbit (col) |
Tolkien |
Lit |
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The Horse Whisperer |
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Lit |
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The House on the Strand |
DuMaurier |
Lit/SF |
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Title (and Notes) |
Author |
Genre |
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (col) |
Angelou, Maya |
Bio/Poet |
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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (col) |
Greenberg |
Bio |
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The Iliad (col) |
Homer |
Lit/Poet |
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Inherit the Wind (Scopes trial of 1925) (col) |
Lawrence, J |
Bio |
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The Inferno |
Dante |
Lit/Poet |
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The Invincible Louisa |
Meigs |
Bio |
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Irving, Complete Works of, "Sleepy Hollow" (col) |
Irving, Washington |
Lit |
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Ivanhoe (col) |
Scott, Sir Walter |
Lit |
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