ALA Outstanding Books for College Bound
* indicates the BVHS library has the AR quiz and/or book.
Title
Author
RL
Pts
Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A.
Rodríguez, Luis J.
6.2
13
Angela's Ashes *
McCourt, Frank
5.9
23
The Autobiography of Malcolm X *
Malcolm/Haley
7.5
32
The Awakening *
Chopin, Kate
8.5
12
The Awakening and Other Stories
Chopin/Baym
8.3
17
Beauty *
McKinley, Robin
6.2
11
The Beekeeper's Apprentice *
King, Laurie R.
7.0
19
Beloved *
Morrison, Toni
6.0
15
Black Boy (American Hunger) *
Wright, Richard
7.4
22
Bless Me, Ultima *
Anaya, Rudolfo
5.4
14
Brave New World *
Huxley, Aldous
7.5
11
Briar Rose *
Yolen, Jane
5.0
8
The Bride Price *
Emecheta, Buchi
6.6
11
Catch-22 *
Heller, Joseph
7.1
30
The Chosen *
Potok, Chaim
6.6
15
Cold Mountain *
Frazier, Charles
6.9
27
The Color of Water *
McBride, James
6.1
11
Crime and Punishment *
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
8.7
40
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam *
Edelman, Bernard
6.5
14
A Death in the Family *
Agee, James
6.1
16
Death of a Salesman *
Miller, Arthur
6.2
5
The Diary of a Young Girl *
Frank, Anne
6.5
14
A Doll's House *
Ibsen, Henrik
5.9
4
Ellen Foster *
Gibbons, Kaye
4.7
6
Ender's Game *
Card, Orson Scott
5.5
16
A Farewell to Arms *
Hemingway, Ernest
6.0
13
The Fixer *
Malamud, Bernard
7.0
17
The Glass Menagerie *
Williams, Tennessee
5.3
3
The Grapes of Wrath *
Steinbeck, John
4.9
25
The Grass Dancer *
Power, Susan
6.5
15
Grendel *
Gardner, John
5.9
6
Growing Up *
Baker, Russell
6.9
15
The Handmaid's Tale *
Atwood, Margaret
5.4
14
The House on Mango Street *
Cisneros, Sandra
4.5
3
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings *
Angelou, Maya
6.7
13
In Country *
Mason, Bobbie Ann
4.6
12
In the Time of the Butterflies *
Alvarez, Julia
5.8
18
Invisible Man *
Ellison, Ralph
7.2
30
Kaffir Boy *
Mathabane, Mark
7.1
24
The Killer Angels *
Shaara, Michael
4.7
15
King Lear (Folger Library) *
Shakespeare, William
8.8
5
The Left Hand of Darkness *
Le Guin, Ursula K.
7.0
15
A Lesson Before Dying
Gaines, Ernest J.
4.4
11
The Member of the Wedding *
McCullers, Carson
6.3
9
Montana 1948 *
Watson, Larry
5.5
7
Mousetrap
Snowball, Diane
0.8
0.5
The Mousetrap and Other Plays
Christie, Agatha
5.3
33
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass *
Douglass/Jacobs
9.1
22
Native Son *
Wright, Richard
6.1
24
Nectar in a Sieve *
Markandaya, Kamala
6.2
10
The Odyssey *
Homer/Fagles
10.3
24
Our Town *
Wilder, Thornton
3.9
3
Parable of the Sower
Butler, Octavia E.
4.6
15
Paula *
Allende/Peden
8.6
26
Pygmalion *
Shaw, George Bernard
7.0
6
A Raisin in the Sun *
Hansberry, Lorraine
5.5
5
Red Scarf Girl *
Jiang, Ji-li
5.0
8
Schindler's List *
Keneally, Thomas
8.6
25
Shizuko's Daughter *
Mori, Kyoko
5.2
9
Siddhartha *
Hesse, Hermann
7.1
6
The Story of My Life
Keller, Helen
6.8
12
The Things They Carried *
O'Brien, Tim
5.8
10
To Kill a Mockingbird *
Lee, Harper
5.6
15
Undaunted Courage *
Ambrose, Stephen E.
9.0
42
Waiting For Godot *
Beckett, Samuel
5.4
2
West Side Story: A Novelization *
Shulman, Irving
5.2
6
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