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Outside Reading Choices for the College-Bound by Reading Lexile

The following are recommended books for the college-bound, mostly from the American Library Association’s lists by that name. Books are listed by lexile so that students may select a book within their reading range (see MAPS results). PHS Library Call Numbers are in BOLD.

580 Enzensberger, Hans. The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure. 1998. A boy dreams a devil who guides him through a colorful, Alice in Wonderland-like world of mathematical concepts.

610 Shaara, Michael. Killer Angels. 1974. Officers and foot soldiers from both the Union and Confederacy steel themselves for the bloody Battle of Gettysburg.
FIC SHAARA

620 Abelove, Joan. Go and come back. 2002. In a story of mutual culture shock, Alicia, a young Isabo girl in a remote area of Peru, is just as fascinated by the American anthropologists, Joanna and Margarita, as they are with the ways of her people.

670 Myers, Walter Dean. Monster. 1999. Steve Harmon is accused of being an accomplice to murder. He creates a screenplay of his wrenching experiences at the crime scene, in jail, and on trial. FIC MYERS

680 Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. 1939. An Oklahoma farmer and his family leave the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression to go to the promised land of California. FIC STEINBECK

690 Anderson, Laurie Halse. Speak. 1999. Calling the police to a party is a tough choice, but what made Melinda call is the devastating secret that keeps her locked in silence. FIC ANDERSON

700 Freymann-Weyr, Garret. My Heartbeat. 2002. Can Ellen get the boy who loves her brother? FIC WEYR

700 Wright, Richard. Native Son. 1940. For Bigger Thomas, an African American man accused of a crime in the white man's world, there could be no extenuating circumstances, no explanations and only death. FIC WRIGHT

710 Butler, Octavia. Parable of the Sower. 1993. Lauren Olamina, who suffers from a hereditary trait called "hyperempathy" that causes her to feel others' pain physically, journeys north along the dangerous highways of twentieth-first century California. FIC BUTLER

730 Mason, Bobbi Ann. In Country. 1985. After her father is killed in the Vietnam War, Sam Hughes lives with an uncle whom she suspects suffers from the effects of Agent Orange, and struggles to come to terms with the war's impact on her family.
FIC MASON

750 Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale. 1986. In Gilead, a Christian fundamentalist dystopia, fertile lower-class women serve as birth-mothers for the upper class. FIC ATWOOD

750 Gaines, Ernest. A Lesson Before Dying. 1993. When Jefferson's attorney states, "I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this," disillusioned teacher Grant Wiggins is sent into the penitentiary to help this slow learner gain a sense of dignity and self-esteem before his execution. FIC GAINES

770 Chevalier, Tracy. Girl With a Pearl Earring. 1999. Sixteen year-old Griet is hired as a maid in the household of Delft painter Johannes Vermeer, where she becomes an assistant and muse to the famous artist. FIC CHEVALIER

770 Anderson, M.T. Feed. 2002. In this society your brain cyberfeed provides an endless stream of information, entertainment and advertising. When Violet’s feed is disrupted, she’s cast adrift and everyone is forced to examine the power of the feed in his/her life. FIC ANDERSON

770 Hart, Elva Trevino. The Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child. 1999. This honest and moving memoir follows a migrant child and her family as they travel from their home in New Mexico to the farm fields of Minnesota and Wisconsin in search of work. 921 TREVINO

780 Card, Orson Scott. Ender's Game. 1985. In a world decimated by alien attacks, the government trains young geniuses like Ender Wiggin in military strategy with increasingly complex computer games. FIC CARD

780 Jiang, Ji-Li. Red Scarf Girl. 1997. The author tells about the happy life she led in China up until she was twelve-years-old when her family became a target of the Cultural Revolution, and discusses the choice she had to make between denouncing her father and breaking with her family, or refusing to speak against him and losing her future in the Communist Party. 921 JIANG

820 Mori, Kyoko. Shizuko's Daughter. 1993. In the years following her mother's suicide, Yuki develops the inner strength to cope with her distant father, her resentful stepmother, and her haunting, painful memories. FIC KYOKO

820 Yolen, Jane. Briar Rose. 1992. Disturbed by her grandmother Gemma's unique version of Sleeping Beauty, Rebecca seeks the truth behind the fairy tale. FIC YOLEN.

830 Albom, Mitch. Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson. 1997. Mitch Albom’s Tuesday night visits with his dying sociology professor, Morrie, offer valuable lessons about the art of living and dying with dignity. 921 SCHWARTZ

830 Buloson, Carlos. America is in the Heart: A Personal Story. 1946. The Filipino poet describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and years of hardship as an itinerant laborer in the rural West. 921 BULOSON

830 Frank, E. R. Life is Funny. 2000. Growing up in New York can be agonizing, humorous, and always a challenge for the teens who tell their stories. FIC FRANK

840 Armstrong, Lance. It’s Not About The Bike. 2000. Champion cyclist Lance Armstrong describes his triumph over cancer. 921 ARMSTRONG

840 Bradshaw, Gillian. The Sand-Reckoner. 2000. A youthful Archimedes comes into his own as a mathematician, an engineer, and a fascinating human being in this engaging novel. FIC BRADSHAW

840 Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner. 2003. Years after he flees Afghanistan, Amir, now an American citizen, returns to his native land and attempts to atone for the betrayal of his best friend before he fled Kabul and the Taliban. FIC KHALED

840 Salzman, Mark. True Notebooks. 2003. When Salzman agreed to teach a writing class at Central Juvenile Hall in Los Angeles, he had no idea how moved he would be by the lives and the eloquence of his students, all high-risk violent offenders. 808 SALZMAN

840 Hobbs, Anne. Tisha: Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaska Wilderness. 1977. The author recounts a year of teaching on the Alaska frontier, where the white adults resent her teaching the Indians as well as her relationship with a half-Indian man. 371.1 HOBBS

840 Anaya, Rudolfo. Bless Me, Ultima. 1972. Ultima, a wise old mystic, helps a young Hispanic boy resolve personal dilemmas caused by the differing backgrounds and aspirations of his parents and society. FIC ANAYA

860 Brown, Claude. Manchild in the Promised Land. 1965. The autobiography of Claude Brown, describing his life and that of other black Americans in New York City's Harlem area. 921 BROWN

860 Kazmiroff, Theodore. The Last Algonquin.

870 Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. 1932. In a chilling vision of the future, babies are produced in bottles and exist in a mechanized world without soul. FIC HUXLEY

870 Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. 1960. A young girl tells of life in a small Alabama town in the 1930s and her father's defense in court of an African American accused of raping a white woman. FIC LEE

870 Cisneros, Sandra. The House On Mango Street. 1991. In short, poetic stories, Esperanza describes life in a low-income, predominantly Hispanic neighborhood in Chicago. FIC CISERNOS

870 Gibbons, Kaye. Ellen Foster. 1987. Casting an unflinching yet humorous eye on her situation, eleven-year-old Ellen survives her mother's death, an abusive father, and uncaring relatives to find for herself a loving home and a new mama.
FIC GIBBONS

870 Morrison, Toni. Beloved. 1987. Preferring death over slavery for her children, Sethe murders her infant daughter who later mysteriously returns and almost destroys the lives of her mother and sister. FIC MORRISON

870 Penn, W. S., editor. The Telling of the World: Native American Stories and Art. 1996. Traditional and contemporary legends, stories, and art from many tribes explain our world and its life forms.

870 Moody, Ann. Coming of Age in Mississippi. 1968. One of the first brave young African American students to participate in a lunch counter sit-in, Moody becomes a heroine of the civil rights movement.

870 Rodriguez, Luis. Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A. 1993. Rodriguez tells the story of his life in a Los Angeles gang and his later experiences as a Chicano activist. 921 RODRIQUEZ

880 O'Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction. 1990.These stories follow Tim O'Brien's platoon of American soldiers through a variety of personal and military encounters during the Vietnam War. SC O’BRIEN

880 Kingston, Maxine Hong. Woman Warrior. 1976. A memoir of the American-born daughter of Chinese immigrants who lived within the traditions and fears of the Chinese past as well as the realities of the alien modern American culture.
921 KINGSTON

890 Power, Susan. The Grass Dancer. 1994. Ending in the 1980s with the love story of Charlene Thunder and grass dancer Harley Wind Soldier, this multigenerational tale of a Sioux family is told in the voices of the living and the dead. FIC POWER

890 Momaday, N. Scott. The Way to Rainy Mountain. 1969. Retells Kiowa myths the author learned from his grandmother and describes the Indian life he knew as a child. 970. 3 MOMADAY

890 Delany, Sara and Delany, A. Elizabeth. Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First One Hundred Years. 1993. Chronicles the experiences of two African-American women growing up in North Carolina at the turn-of-the-century. 920 DELANY

890 Gilbreth, Frank B. Cheaper By the Dozen. 1963. Reveals the family life of the twelve Gilbreth children and their engineer father who runs the household with his unique methodology. 921 GILBRETH

900 Pipher, Mary. Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls. 1994. Pipher looks at societal "girl poisoning" and the emotional and psychological havoc it wreaks on the lives of young women. 305.23 PIPHER

900 Abelove, Joan. Go and come back. 2002. In a story of mutual culture shock, Alicia, a young Isabo girl in a remote area of Peru, is just as fascinated by the American anthropologists, Joanna and Margarita, as they are with the ways of her people.

900 Ten Boom, Corrie. The Hiding Place. 940.54 TEN BOOM

900 Allison, Dorothy. Bastard Out of Carolina. 1992 .Bone confronts poverty, the troubled marriage of her mother and stepfather, and the stigma of being considered "white trash" as she comes of age in South Carolina. FIC ALLISON

900 Markandaya, Kamala. Nectar In A Sieve. 1954.Natural disasters, an arranged marriage, and industrialization of her village are the challenges Rukmani must face as the bride of a peasant farmer in southern India. FIC MARKANDAYA

900 McCullers, Carson. The Member of the Wedding. 1946.A young Southern girl is determined to be the third party on a honeymoon, despite all advice. FIC MCCULLERS

910 Alvarez, Julia. In the Time of Butterflies. New York: Algonquin, 1994. The four Mirabel sisters were called the Mariposas, or butterflies. Dede, the only survivor, tells the story of courage that helps liberate the Dominican Republic from the dictator Trujillo. FIC ALVAREZ

920 Gardner, John. Grendel. 1971.In a unique interpretation of the Beowulf legend, the monster Grendel relates his struggle to understand the ugliness in himself and mankind in the brutal world of fourteenth-century Denmark. FIC GRENDEL

920 Rodriguez, Richard. Hunger of Memory: the Education of Richard Rodriguez: an Autobiography. 1982.Rodriguez's journey through the educational system leads to his belief that family, culture, and language must be left behind to succeed in mainstream America. 921 RODRIQUEZ

930 Pullman, Philip. The Golden Compass. 1996. Lyra Belacqua, a young girl living in an alternate Oxford, and her daimon, Pantalaimon, set out to find her kidnapped playmate and uncover a sinister plot. Now Lyra must use her special powers to thwart evil and redeem the world. FIC PULLMAN

940 Watson, Larry. Montana 1948. 1993.The summer he is 12, David watches as his family and small town are shattered by scandal and tragedy. FIC WATSON

940 Hautzig, Esther. The Endless Steppe. 921 HAUTZIG

950 Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man. 1952.A young African American seeking identity during his high school and college days, and later in New York's Harlem, relates his terrifying experiences. FIC ELLISON

960 Mah, Adeline. Chinese Cinderella: the True Story of an Unwanted Daughter. New York: Delacorte, 1999. Wu Mei, also called Adeline, is the Fifth Younger Sister of her family, and the one who bears the blame for all their bad fortune. In her inspirational tale of survival in 1940’s China, she triumphs against all odds. 921 MAH

960 Chopin, Kate. The Awakening. 1899.Edna Pontellier, an unhappy wife and mother, discovers new qualities in herself when she visits Grand Isle, a resort for the Creole elite of New Orleans. FIC CHOPIN

960 Malamud, Bernard. The Fixer. 1966.Victim of a vicious anti-Semitic conspiracy, Yakov Bok is in a Russian prison with only his indomitable will to sustain him. FIC MALAMUD

970 Latifa [pseud.]. My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban; A Young Woman’s Story. New York: Hyperion Press, 2002. Sixteen-year-old Latifa dreamed of becoming a professional journalist until the Taliban’s repression of women changed her life. 921 LATIFA

970 LeGuin, Ursula. The Left Hand of Darkness. 1969. First envoy to the technologically primitive world of Winter, Al must deal with a hostile climate; a suspicious, bickering government; and his own conventional sexual mores. FIC LEGUIN

970 McKinley, Robin. Beauty. 1978.Love is the only key to unlocking a curse and transforming the Beast into a man. 398.2 MCKINLEY

970 Potok, Chaim. The Chosen. 1967.A baseball injury brings together two Jewish boys, one Hasidic, the other Orthodox, first in hostility but finally in friendship. FIC POTOCK

970 Uchida, Yoshiko. Picture Bride. 1987.Hana Omiya journeys to America in the early 1900s to marry a man she has never met. FIC UCHIDA

980 Kosinski, Jerzy. Painted Bird. 1965.An abandoned dark-haired child wanders alone through isolated villages of Eastern Europe in World War II. FIC KOSINSKI

980 Edelman, Bernard Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam. 959.704 EDELMAN

980 Heat Moon, William. Blue Highways: A Journey to America. 917.3 HEAT

980 Yolen, Jane, editor. Favorite Folktales from Around the World. 1986. This collection of international folktales provides an understanding of the roots of diverse cultures 398.2 FAVORITE

990 Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment. 1866. A sensitive intellectual is driven by poverty to believe himself exempt from moral law. FIC DOSTOYEVSKY

990 Hillenbrand, Laura. Seabiscut. 798.4 HILLENBRAND

1000 Crutcher, Chris. Whale Talk. 2001. What does a guy do when he has all the talents to be a star athlete, but hates his high school athletic program? FIC CRUTCHER

1000 Rosenberg, Robert. Bill Cosby: The Changing Black Image.

1000 Petry, Ann. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad. 921 TUBMAN

1000 Harr, Jonathon. A Civil Action. 346.7303 HARR

1010 Hesse, Hermann. Siddhartha. 1951.Emerging from a kaleidoscope of experiences and tasted pleasures, Siddhartha transcends to a state of peace and mystic holiness in this strangely simple story. FIC HESS

1010 Ford, Michael Thomas. The Voices of AIDS: Twelve Unforgettable People Talk About How AIDS Has Changed Their Lives. 1995. Individuals whose AIDS experiences have been catalysts for making a difference share their poignant and personal stories. 362.1 FORD

1010 Neihardt, John. Black Elk Speaks. 921 BLACK

1010 Hockenberry, John. Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence. 1995. Journalist Hockenberry is fearless and funny as he relates the personal and professional experiences he encounters from his wheelchair. 921 HOCKENBERRY

1010 Bernstein, Carl Al l the President’s Men. 364.1 BERNSTEIN

1020 Agee, James. A Death in the Family. 1957.The enchanted childhood summer of 1915 suddenly becomes a baffling experience for Rufus Follet when his father dies. FIC AGEE

1020 Jenkins, Peter. Walk Across America. 917.3 JENKINS

1020 Graham, Robin. Dove. 910 GRAHAM

1040 Hamilton, Edith. Mythology. 1942. Gods and heroes, their clashes and adventures, come alive in this splendid retelling of the Greek, Roman, and Norse myths. 291.13 HAMILTON

1040 Mathabane, Mark. Kaffir Boy. 921 MATHABANE

1040 Dillard, Annie An American Childhood. 921 DILLARD

1050 Bagdasarian, Adam. Forgotten Fire. 2000. Based on a true story from the Armenian Holocaust, this is an eloquent, touching and heart-wrenching portrait of pain and triumph during a time of tragedy. FIC BAGDASARIAN

1060 Emecheta, Buchi. Bride Price. 1976. Aku-nna, a very young Ibo girl, and Chike, her teacher, fall in love despite tribal custom forbidding their romance. FIC EMECHETA

1060 Curie, Eve. Madam Curie: a Biography. 1937. In sharing personal papers and her own memories, a daughter pays tribute to her unique and generous mother, a scientific genius. 921 CURIE

1060 McCullough, David. Truman. 1992. This notable president earned America's respect by helping to end World War II and reshape the world for postwar peace. 921 TRUMAN

1060 Yeager, Chuck and Janos, Leo. Yeager: An Autobiography 921 YEAGER

1070 Katz, Jon. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho. New York: Broadway Books, 2001. Eric and Jesse, poor students and online geeks, find their obsession with computers and technology is their ticket to college and success. 338.7 KATZ

1070 Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. 1970. An African American writer, poet, and actress traces her coming of age. 921 ANGELOU

1070 Atkinson, Linda In Kindling Flame: the Story of Hannah Senesh 921 SENESH

1080 Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself. 1845. Former slave and famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass describes the horrors of his enslavement and eventual escape. 921 DOUGLAS

1080 Dahl, Roald Going Solo 921 DAHL

1080 Brown, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West. 1970. There's another side of

America's western expansion: the one seen through Native American eyes. 970.5 BROWN

1080 Frank, Anne Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. 940.54 FRANK

1090 Baker, Russell Growing Up

1100 King, Laurie R. The Beekeeper's Apprentice, or, on the Segregation of the Queen. 1994. Retired Sherlock Holmes meets his intellectual match in 15-year-old Mary Russell, who challenges him to investigate yet another case. FIC KING

1110 Wolfe, Tom. The Right Stuff. 629.109 WOLFE

1120 Haley, Alex and X. Malcom. The Autobiography of Malcom X. 921 X

1120 Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. Cross Creek. 921 RAWLINGS

1130 Beal, Merril I Will Fight No More Forever. 970.3 BEAL

1140 Heller, Joseph. Catch-22. 1961.In this satirical novel, Captain Yossarian confronts the hypocrisy of war and bureaucracy as he frantically attempts to survive. FIC HELLER

1040 Mathabane, Mark. Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa.. 1986. Growing up under the brutalities of apartheid South Africa, Mathabane describes the growing unrest in his country and his eventual escape through his ties to the tennis community. 921 MATHBANE

1140 Williams, Juan. Eyes on the Prize: American Civil Rights 1954-1965. From Brown v. the Board of Education to the Voting Rights Act, Williams outlines the social and political gains of African Americans. 323.4 WILLIAMS

1150 Keneally, Thomas. Schindler's List. 1982 .Oskar Schindler, a rich factory owner, risks his life and spends his personal fortune to save Jews listed as his workers during World War II. FIC KENEALLY

1150 Keller, Helen. The Story of My Life. 1902. Overcoming deafness and blindness to become an outstanding citizen, Helen Keller embodies courage, passion, and perseverance. 921 KELLER

1160 Read, Piers Paul. Alive. 982 READ

1180 Haddon, Mark. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. 2003. Christopher has two mysteries to solve: who killed Wellington the dog, and what happened to his mother. But Christopher, who has Asperger Syndrome, a form of autism, approaches these mysteries and the world itself in a unique and special way. FIC HADD0N

1110 Aronson, Marc. Art Attack: A Short Cultural History of the Avant-Garde. 1998. Discover everything you ever wanted to know about bohemians, hipsters, and the development of the world's most radical art. 700 ARONSON

1110 McCourt, Frank. Ashes: A Memoir. 1996.Illness, hunger, alcoholism, and death plague McCourt's childhood in Ireland, but somehow he survives with his spirit intact. 921 MCCOURT

1140 Jones, K. Maurice. Say It Loud! The Story of Rap Music. 1994. From a village in West Africa to a street in Brooklyn, to MTV, rappers make the Scene.

1140 Massie, Robert K. Nicholas and Alexandra. 1967. At the brink of revolution, the last Tsar of Russia and his family become victims of their own mismanagement and personal problems. 947.08 MASSIE

1140 Galarza, Ernesto. Barrio Boy. 921 GALARZA

1140 Junger, Sebastian. The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea. 1997. Haunting premonitions didn't save seven fisherman from the ferocious and deadly power of the sea. 974.4 JUNGER

1150 Blais, Madeleine. In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle. 1995. Learn about the year of heart, sweat, and muscle that transformed the Amherst Lady Hurricanes basketball team into state champions.

1160 Fouts, Roger. Next of Kin: What Chimpanzees Have Taught Me About Who We Are. 1997. Describing his career of communicating with chimpanzees, Fouts explains evolutionary, genetic, and emotional bonds with our next of kin. 156 FOUTS

1160 Freedman, Russell. The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane. 629.13 FREEDMAN

1190 Hersey, John. Hiroshima. 1946. Six Hiroshima survivors reflect on the aftermath of the first atomic bomb. 940.54 HERSEY

1190 Ambrose, Stephen. Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the West. 917.804 AMBROSE

1200 Lewis, Anthony. Gideon’s Trumpet. 323.42 LEWIS

1200 Welty, Eudora. One Writer’s Beginnings. 921 WELTY

1210 Frazier, Charles. Cold Mountain. 1997.Inman, a wounded Civil War soldier, endures the elements, The Guard, and his own weakness and infirmity to return to his sweetheart, Ada, who is fighting her own battle to survive while farming the mountainous North Carolina terrain. FIC FRAZIER

1220 Bissinger, H.G. Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream. New York: DaCapo Press, 2003 (reprint) In Odessa, Texas, high school football is more than a recreational interest, it is the whole town’s passion. 796.332 BISSINGER

1220 Goodall, Jane. In the Shadow of Man. 599.8 GOODALL

1230 Roach, Mary. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers. New York: Norton, 2003. Discover the amazing life-after-death adventures of human bodies in this examination of how medical and research scientists use cadavers to make our lives better. 611 ROACH

1240 Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. The growth of the fast food industry has changed America’s eating habits and greatly impacted agriculture, the meatpacking industry, the minimum wage, and other aspects of American life. 394.1 SCHLOSSER

1240 Finn, David. How to Look at Sculpture: Text and Photographs. 1989.To understand sculpture, you have to know what to look for.

1240 McBride, James. The Color of Water: a Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother. 1996. McBride blends his story with that of his mother, who battled poverty and racism to raise twelve children. 921 MCBRIDE

1250 Bernstein, Leonard. The Joy of Music. 1959. Bernstein describes all aspects of classical music. 780.1 BERNSTEIN

1270 Hemingway, Ernest. Farewell to Arms. 1929.World War I is the setting for this love story of an English nurse and a wounded American ambulance officer. FIC HEMINGWAY

1280 Chang, Iris. The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II. 1997. Barely a postscript in official Japanese history, the horrific rape, mutilation, torture, and murder of hundreds of thousands of Chinese citizens took place over the course of just seven weeks.

1280 DuBois, W.E.B. The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches. 1903. Educator DuBois describes the lives and history of African American farmers, including the career of Booker T. Washington. 305.8 DUBOIS

1280 Uchida, Yoshiko. Desert Exile: The Up-rooting of a Japanese-American Family. 940.54 UCHIDA

1290 Hawking, Stephen. A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes. 1988. Cosmology becomes understandable as the author discusses the origin, evolution, and fate of our universe. 523.1 HAWKING

1290 Toffler, Alvin. Future Shock. 301.24 TOFFLER

1300 Singh, Simon. Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem. 1997.A Princeton professor pursues a lifelong dream of solving a 350-year-old mathematical puzzle.

1320 Washington, Booker T. Up From Slavery. 921 WASHINGTON

1320 Krakauer, John. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster. 1997. His dream expedition to Everest became a nightmare when human error and a sudden storm combined to claim the lives of some of the world's best mountain climbers. 796.52 KRAKAUER

1320 Sobel, Dava. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time. New York: Walker and Company, 1995. The little known story behind the greatest innovation in navigational science; an 18^th century version of the GPS. 526 SOBEL

1340 Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. 1962. This landmark book gave birth to the environmental movement. 632 CARSON

1350 Fagan, Brian. The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850. New York: Basic Books, 2002. Fagan provides a fascinating look at how climate change influenced the course of the last thousand years of Western history. He highlights climate’s profound influence on the Viking discovery of North America, the Industrial and French Revolutions, and the Irish Potato Famine.

1360 Gould, Stephen Jay. The Mismeasure of Man. 1981. Gould's history of the attempt to quantify intelligence could be called the "misuse of science."

1370 Franklin, Benjamin Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. 921 FRANKLIN

1380 Alvarez, Walter. T. Rex and the Crater of Doom. 1997. Geologist Alvarez presents the development of the impact theory of dinosaur extinction as the adventure/mystery it was.

1390 Day, David. The Search for King Arthur. 1995. Discover through magnificent illustrations and romantic retellings what is fact and what is legend about this fifth-century hero. 942.01 DAY

1400 King, Ross. Brunelleschi’s Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture. New York: Walker and Co., 2000. In this vivid recreation of the political and artistic milieu of 15^th century Florence, an audacious architect achieves the impossible, and makes possible modern building.

1410 Kennedy, John F. Profiles in Courage. 920 KENNEDY