ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound1999

Given by YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association)

183 Works 972,962 Books 16,068 Reviews 4.1
From the ALA site:

A YALSA Committee of public, secondary school, and academic librarians selectes the list. Revised every five years as a tool for several audiences (students preparing for college, show more educators, librarians, and parents) it offers opportunities for independent reading and lifelong learning. Use it to round out your reading as you prepare for college entrance exams and courses, to strengthen your knowledge in a variety of subject areas and enhance appreciation for different cultures and times.

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WorkCategoryYear
Paula by Isabel Allende
Biography1999
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen E. Ambrose
Biography1999
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Biography1999
Growing Up by Russell Baker
Biography1999
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 1: 1884-1933 by Blanche Wiesen Cook
Biography1999
Madame Curie: A Biography by Eve Curie
Biography1999
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
Biography1999
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam by Bernard Edelman
Biography1999
Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard Feynman
Biography1999
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Biography1999
Moving Violations by John Hockenberry
Biography1999
Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution by Ji-li Jiang
Biography1999
The Liars' Club: A Memoir by Mary Karr
Biography1999
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
Biography1999
Soul to Soul: A Black Russian American Family 1865-1992 by Yelena Khanga
Biography1999
My Brother by Jamaica Kincaid
Biography1999
Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie
Biography1999
Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa by Mark Mathabane
Biography1999
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
Biography1999
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Biography1999
Truman by David McCullough
Biography1999
Sound-Shadows of the New World by Ved Mehta
Biography1999
Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody
Biography1999
House of Houses by Pat Mora
Biography1999
Stonewall Jackson : The Man, The Soldier, The Legend by James I. Robertson
Biography1999
Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. by Luis J. Rodriguez
Biography1999
Hunger of Memory : The Education of Richard Rodriguez by Richard Rodriguez
Biography1999
This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff
Biography1999
Black Boy by Richard Wright
Biography1999
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
Biography1999
Three Tall Women by Edward Albee
Drama1999
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett
Drama1999
The Mousetrap and Other Plays by Agatha Christie
Drama1999
Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward
Drama1999
"Master Harold" … and the Boys by Athol Fugard
Drama1999
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Drama1999
The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman
Drama1999
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
Drama1999
Rhinoceros by Eugène Ionesco
Drama1999
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, Parts 1 & 2 by Tony Kushner
Drama1999
Rent by Jonathan Larson
Drama1999
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Drama1999
Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill
Drama1999
No Exit / Dirty Hands / The Flies / The Respectful Prostitute by Jean-Paul Sartre
Drama1999
King Lear by William Shakespeare
Drama1999
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Drama1999
West Side Story: A Novelization by Irving Shulman
Drama1999
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Drama1999
Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry
Drama1999
How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel
Drama1999
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Drama1999
Our Town by Thornton Wilder
Drama1999
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
Drama1999
Fences by August Wilson
Drama1999
A Death in the Family by James Agee
Fiction1999
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
Fiction1999
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Fiction1999
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Fiction1999
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Fiction1999
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Fiction1999
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Fiction1999
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fiction1999
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Fiction1999
The Bride Price by Buchi Emecheta
Fiction1999
The Bear by William Faulkner
Fiction1999
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Fiction1999
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
Fiction1999
Grendel by John Gardner
Fiction1999
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
Fiction1999
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Fiction1999
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Fiction1999
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Fiction1999
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Fiction1999
Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally
Fiction1999
The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King
Fiction1999
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosiński
Fiction1999
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Fiction1999
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Fiction1999
The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
Fiction1999
Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya
Fiction1999
In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason
Fiction1999
The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
Fiction1999
Beauty by Robin McKinley
Fiction1999
Shizuko's Daughter by Kyoko Mori
Fiction1999
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Fiction1999
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Fiction1999
Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Fiction1999
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
Fiction1999
The Grass Dancer by Susan Power
Fiction1999
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
Fiction1999
Picture Bride by Yoshiko Uchida
Fiction1999
Montana 1948 by Larry Watson
Fiction1999
Native Son by Richard Wright
Fiction1999
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
Fiction1999
T. Rex and the Crater of Doom by Walter Alvarez
Non-fiction1999
Art Attack: A Brief Cultural History of the Avant-Garde by Marc Aronson
Non-fiction1999
Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series by Eliot Asinof
Non-fiction1999
Voices from the Streets: Young Former Gang Members Tell Their Stories by S. Beth Atkin
Non-fiction1999
The Joy of Music by Leonard Bernstein
Non-fiction1999
In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle by Madeleine Blais
Non-fiction1999
The Secret Family: Twenty-Four Hours Inside the Mysterious World of Our Minds and Bodies by David Bodanis
Non-fiction1999
Making Movies Work: Thinking Like a Filmmaker by Jon Boorstin
Non-fiction1999
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Non-fiction1999
The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls by Joan Jacobs Brumberg
Non-fiction1999
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Non-fiction1999
Civilisation: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark
Non-fiction1999
The Chronicle of Jazz by Mervyn Cooke
Non-fiction1999
What to Listen for in Music by Aaron Copland
Non-fiction1999
Annotated Art by Robert Cumming
Non-fiction1999
King Arthur by David Day
Non-fiction1999
The Broken Cord by Michael Dorris
Non-fiction1999
The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
Non-fiction1999
Joining the Tribe: Growing Up Gay and Lesbian in the '90s by Linnea Due
Non-fiction1999
The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours by Marian Wright Edelman
Non-fiction1999
Enchiridion by Epictetus
Non-fiction1999
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi
Non-fiction1999
How to Look At Sculpture by David Finn
Non-fiction1999
The Voices of AIDS by Michael Thomas Ford
Non-fiction1999
Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees by Roger Fouts
Non-fiction1999
Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students, and Their High School by Samuel G. Freedman
Non-fiction1999
Father Greg and the Homeboys: The Extraordinary Journey of Father Boyle and His Work with the Latino Gangs of East L.A. by Celeste Fremon
Non-fiction1999
The Power of Photography: How Photographs Changed Our Lives by Vicki Goldberg
Non-fiction1999
The Story of Art by E. H. Gombrich
Non-fiction1999
The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould
Non-fiction1999
Water, Ice, And Stone: Science and Memory on the Antarctic Lakes by Bill Green
Non-fiction1999
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet by Katie Hafner
Non-fiction1999
Mythology by Edith Hamilton
Non-fiction1999
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen Hawking
Non-fiction1999
A Tribe Apart: A Journey into the Heart of American Adolescence by Patricia Hersch
Non-fiction1999
Hiroshima (Expanded edition) by John Hersey
Non-fiction1999
A Country Year: Living the Questions by Sue Hubbell
Non-fiction1999
No Matter How Loud I Shout : A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court by Edward Humes
Non-fiction1999
Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement by Gerald Jonas
Non-fiction1999
Say It Loud! The Story of Rap Music by Maurice K. Jones
Non-fiction1999
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men against the Sea by Sebastian Junger
Non-fiction1999
Falling in Love with Wisdom by David D. Karnos
Non-fiction1999
Where She Danced by Elizabeth Kendall
Non-fiction1999
Barefoot to Balanchine by Mary Kerner
Non-fiction1999
Blind Watchers of the Sky: The People and Ideas that Shaped Our View of the Universe by Rocky Kolb
Non-fiction1999
The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America's Dilemma by Alex Kotlowitz
Non-fiction1999
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools by Jonathan Kozol
Non-fiction1999
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
Non-fiction1999
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud
Non-fiction1999
In Suspect Terrain by John McPhee
Non-fiction1999
Stomping the Blues by Albert Murray
Non-fiction1999
ABC of Architecture by James F. O'Gorman
Non-fiction1999
Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences by John Allen Paulos
Non-fiction1999
The Telling of the World: Native American Stories and Art by W. S. Penn
Non-fiction1999
Invention by Design; How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing by Henry Petroski
Non-fiction1999
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher
Non-fiction1999
Virus Ground Zero: Stalking the Killer Viruses with the Centers for Disease Control by Ed Regis
Non-fiction1999
The Most Beautiful House in the World by Witold Rybczynski
Non-fiction1999
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan
Non-fiction1999
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Classical Music by Robert Sherman
Non-fiction1999
The Corner by David Simon
Non-fiction1999
Fermat's Last Theorem: The Story of a Riddle That Confounded the World's Greatest Minds for 358 Years by Simon Singh
Non-fiction1999
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel
Non-fiction1999
The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
Non-fiction1999
African Exodus: The Origins of Modern Humanity by Christopher Stringer
Non-fiction1999
The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher by Lewis Thomas
Non-fiction1999
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James D. Watson
Non-fiction1999
Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 by Juan Williams
Non-fiction1999
Favorite Folktales from Around the World by Jane Yolen
Non-fiction1999
The Holy Bible: New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) by Zondervan
Non-fiction1999
United States of Poetry by Joshua Blum
Poetry1999
Cool Salsa by Lori Carlson
Poetry1999
How Does a Poem Mean by John Ciardi
Poetry1999
Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle by Stephen Dunning
Poetry1999
The War Poets: Lives and Writings of the 1914-18 War Poets by Robert Giddings
Poetry1999
Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry by Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Poetry1999
Pierced by a Ray of Sun: Poems About the Times We Feel Alone by Ruth Gordon
Poetry1999
The Rattle Bag by Seamus Heaney
Poetry1999
The Odyssey by Homer
Poetry1999
In Search of Color Everywhere: A Collection of African-American Poetry by E. Ethelbert Miller
Poetry1999
Harper's Anthology of Twentieth Century Native American Poetry by Duane Niatum
Poetry1999
I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You : A Book of Her Poems & His Poems Collected in Pairs by Naomi Shihab Nye
Poetry1999
The Tree Is Older Than You Are: A Bilingual Gathering of Poems & Stories from Mexico with Paintings by Mexican Artists (English and Spanish Edition) by Naomi Shihab Nye
Poetry1999
New and Selected Poems by Mary Oliver
Poetry1999
Singing America: Poems That Define a Nation by Neil Philip
Poetry1999
Earth-Shattering Poems by Liz Rosenberg
Poetry1999
Poetry Out Loud by Robert Alden Rubin
Poetry1999
100 Best-Loved Poems by Philip Smith
Poetry1999
A Book of Love Poetry by Jon Stallworthy
Poetry1999

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