Outstanding Books for the College Bound and Lifelong Learners

To provide reading recommendations to students of all ages who plan to continue their education beyond high school.

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Frequency: Every 5 years

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December 30, 2014

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	Title	Year
	Rotten English: A Literary Anthology 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. I: The Pox Party 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brian Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	What Color Is Your Parachute? 2009: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Never Let Me Go 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Night Birds: A Novel 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX: The Law That Changed the Future of Girls in America 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Middle of Everywhere: Helping Refugees Enter the American Community 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Water for Elephants: A Novel 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Daniel Half-Human: And the Good Nazi 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Photography: An Illustrated History 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	My Start-Up Life: What a (Very) Young CEO Learned on His Journey through Silicon Valley 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Mister Pip 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Frida: Viva la Vida! Long Live Life! 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think About Colleges 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Blankets 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Who the Hell is Pansy O'Hara?: The Fascinating Stories Behind of the World's Best-Loved Books 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why it Matters 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Elements of Library Research: What Every Student Needs to Know 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Good Poems 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Hidden Face of God: How Science Reveals the Ultimate Truth 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey through His Son's Addiction 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Book Thief 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Shooting Under Fire: The World of the War Photographer 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Someday This Pain Will be Useful to You 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Race to Save the Lord God Bird 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon - And the Journey of a Generation 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Secret Life of Bees 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Radioactive Boy Scout: The True Story of a Boy and His Backyard Nuclear Reactor 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Complete Persepolis 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	God's Debris: a Thought Experiment 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng: A Novel 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Caramelo 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Out of Orbit: The Incredible True Story of Three Astronauts Who Were Hundreds of Miles Above Earth W 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Wheelchair Warrior: Gangs, Disability, and Basketball 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	The God of Animals 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Genomics Age: How DNA Technology is Transforming the Way We Live and Who We Are 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	From Clueless to Class Act: Manners for the Modern Man 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way to Be Smart 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	She's Got Next: A Story of Getting In, Staying Open, and Taking a Shot 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	A Sand County Almanac 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Forgotten Fire: A Novel 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Out Law: What LGBT Youth Should Know Abouth Their Legal Rights 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science--From the Babylonians to the Maya 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Bastard Out of Carolina 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Known World 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Mosque 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	A Rare Breed of Love: The True Story of Baby and the Mission She Inspired to Help Dogs Everywhere 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Road 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Power of Myth 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Eagle Blue: A Team, a Tribe, and a High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Devil's Highway: A True Story 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	A Short History of Nearly Everything 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	A Lesson Before Dying 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Way We Work: Getting to Know the Amazing Human Body 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Sold 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Kafka on the Shore 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Fancisco Manzano 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Bitterly Divided: The South's Inner Civil War 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Red Tent: A Novel 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Killed Cartoons: Casualties from the War on Free Expression 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Our Movie Heritage 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time 2009 -
	Looking for Alaska 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Hungry Planet: What the World Eats 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Sunrise Over Fallujah 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Pillars of the Earth 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	New Found Land: Lewis and Clark's Voyage of Discovery 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	World Religions: The Great Faiths Explored and Explained 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Glass Castle: A Memoir 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Taste of Sweet: Our Complicated Love Affair With Our Favorite Treats 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	John Lennon: All I Want is the Truth 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Tuesdays with Morrie: an Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Greasy Rider: Two Dudes, One Fry-Oil-Powered Car, and a Cross-Country Search for a Greener Future 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace Once School at a Time 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Plot Against America 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Shakespeare: The World as Stage 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Little Brother 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Kite Runner 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Botany of Desire: A Plant's Eye View of the World 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Nineteen Minutes 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Lucky: A Memoir 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Feed 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)

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