Outstanding Books for the College Bound: This list is revised every 5 years by a committe of the Young Adult Library Services Association of the American Library Association. It is intended as a tool for a variety of audiences - college bound students, educators, librarians, and parents. Of that original list, only these titles are available to download free.

Fiction:

• The Awakening, and selected short stories by Kate Chopin
  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.
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, trans. by Constance Garnett
  A sensitive intellectual is driven by poverty to believe himself exempt from moral law.
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse Emerging from a kaleidoscope of experiences and tasted pleasures, Siddhartha transcends toa state of peace and mystic holiness in this strangely simple story.

Nonfiction:

• The Bible  (King James version)

Biography:

• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845) by Frederick Douglass
  Former slave and famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass describes the horrors of his enslavement and eventual escape.
• The Story of My Life by Helen Keller and Anne Mansfield Sullivan, ed. by John Albert Macy
  Overcoming deafness and blindness to become an outstanding citizen, Helen Keller embodies courage, passion, and perseverance.

Drama:

• A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
  Nora, one of feminism's great heroines, steps off her pedestal and encounters the real world.
• King Lear by William Shakespeare
  An arrogant old man goes insane after his daughters strip him of every dignity and possession.
• Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
  Professor Higgins bets a friend he can turn common Eliza Doolittle into a duchess.
• The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
  Can a baby, abandoned at Victoria Station, grow up to find love, romance, identity, and the importance of being earnest?

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