Outstanding Books for the College Bound: Literature and Language Arts

The OBCB list is developed every five years as a tool for various audiences (students preparing for college, educators, librarians, and parents). It offers opportunities for independent reading and lifelong learning. From the list, readers are bound to find something that will expand their worldview and help them gain an understanding of the ever-changing world.-YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association)

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How long 'til black future month? - Jemisin, N. K.,

Summary: N.K. Jemisin is one of the most powerful and acclaimed speculative fiction authors of our time. In the first collection of her evocative short fiction, Jemisin equally challenges and delights...

Contents: The ones who stay and fight --The city born great --Red dirt witch --L'Alchimista --The effluent engine --Cloud dragon skies --The Trojan girl --Valedictorian --The storyteller's replacement --The...

Deaf republic : poems - Kaminsky, Ilya, 1977-

Summary: Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest. When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Petya, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear--they all...

Contents: We lived happily during the war --Dramatis personae --Act one :The townspeople tell the story of Sonya and Alfonso :Gunshot --As soldiers march, Alfonso covers the boy's face with a newspaper...

The handmaid's tale - Nault, Renee,

Summary: "Margaret Atwood's best-loved novel has taken the world by storm again. Riding high on bestseller lists for months and the basis for Hulu's Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning smash hit series, The...

The fire next time - Baldwin, James, 1924-1987.

Summary: At once a powerful evocation of his early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice to both the individual and the body politic, James Baldwin galvanized...

Fun home : a family tragicomic - Bechdel, Alison, 1960-

Summary: This book takes its place alongside the unnerving, memorable, darkly funny family memoirs of Augusten Burroughs and Mary Karr. It's a father-daughter tale perfectly suited to the graphic memoir...

The binding : a novel - Collins, Bridget,

Summary: Young Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a strange letter arrives summoning him away from his family. He is to begin an apprenticeship as a Bookbinder—a vocation that arouses fear,...

Woman world - Dhaliwal, Aminder, 1988-

Summary: When a birth defect wipes out the planet's entire population of men, Woman World rises out of society's ashes.

Ordinary hazards : a memoir - Grimes, Nikki,

Summary: "Growing up with a mother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and a mostly absent father, Nikki Grimes found herself terrorized by babysitters, shunted from foster family to foster family, and...

Homegoing : a novel - Gyasi, Yaa,

Summary: "Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in...

My plain Jane - Hand, Cynthia, 1978-

Summary: You may think you know the story. Penniless orphan Jane Eyre begins a new life as a governess at Thornfield Hall, where she meets one dark, brooding Mr. Rochester--and, Reader, she marries him. Or...

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