OUTSTANDING BOOKS FOR THE COLLEGE BOUND

HISTORY AND CULTURES

Highlighted titles are those which can be found in the SPHS Library Media Center.


Ahmad, Dohra, ed. Rotten English: A Literary Anthology. 2007. W.W. Norton.

Alexie, Sherman. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. 2007. Little, Brown.

Bagdasarian, Adam. Forgotten Fire: A Novel.2002. Random House/Laurel Leaf.

Chandrasekaran, Rajiv. Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone. 2007. Knopf/Vintage.


Chang, Iris. The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II. 1998. Penguin.


Chotjewitz, David. Doris Orgel (Translator). Daniel Half-Human: And the Good Nazi. 2004. Simon & Schuster/Atheneum.

Delisle, Guy. Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea. 2007. Drawn and Quarterly.

Diamond, Jared. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. 2005. Penguin.

Diaz, Junot. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. 2007. Penguin/Riverhead.

Egan, Timothy. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl. 2005. Houghton Mifflin.

Eggers, Dave. What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng: A Novel. 2007. Knopf/Vintage.

Fadiman, Anne. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures. 1998. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Fleming, Anne Marie. The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam. 2007. Penguin/Riverhead.

Jones, Edward P. The Known World. 2003. HarperCollins/Amistad.

Horwitz, Tony. A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World. 2008. Henry Holt.

Larson, Erik.The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America.2004. Knopf/Vintage.

Maltman, Thomas. The Night Birds: A Novel. 2008. Soho Press.


Roberts, Gene and Hank Klibanoff. The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation. 2007.

Knopf/Vintage.

Saenz, Benjamin Alire. Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood. 2004. Cinco Puntos Press.

Satrapi, Marjane. The Complete Persepolis. 2007. Knopf/Pantheon.

Spiegelman, Art. The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale. 1996. Knopf/Pantheon.

Ung, Loung. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers. 2006. HarperCollins.

Weiner, Tim.Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA. 2008. Knopf/Anchor.

Williams, David. Bitterly Divided: The South’s Inner Civil War. 2008. The New Press.


Wolf, Allan. New Found Land: Lewis and Clark’s Voyage of Discovery. 2007. Candlewick.