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Celebrating 50 Years of Reading
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Celebrating 50 Years of Reading 1969 to 2019
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50 Books for 50 Years
1970
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
by
Dee Alexander Brown
Call Number: E 81 .B75 2001
1971
The Day of the Jackal
by
Frederick Forsyth
Call Number: PR 6056 .O699 D3
1972
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
by
Richard Bach; Russell Munson (Photographer)
Call Number: j Bac Curric Lib
1973
Burr
by
Gore Vidal
Call Number: PS 3543 .I26 B8 1973
1974
All the President's Men
by
Carl Bernstein; Bob Woodward (Based on a work by)
Call Number: E 860 .B47 1999
1975
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
by
Mildred D. Taylor; Jerry Pinkney (Illustrator)
Call Number: j Tay Curric Lib
1976
Roots
by
Alex Haley
Call Number: E 185.97 .H24 A33 1976
1977
The Thorn Birds
by
Colleen McCullough
Call Number: PR 9619.3 .M32 T5 1977
1978
The World According to Garp
by
John Irving
Call Number: PS 3559 R8 W67 1998
1979
THe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by
Douglas Adams
Call Number: PR 6051 .D3352 H5 1989
1980
The Name of the Rose
by
Umberto Eco; William Weaver (Translator)
Call Number: PQ 4865 .C6 N613 1983
1981
A Light in the Attic
by
Shel Silverstein (Illustrator)
Call Number: Curric Lib Swider Collection Silverstein
1982
Schindler's List
by
Thomas Keneally
Call Number: PR 9619.3 .K46 S3 1993
1983
Dear Mr. Henshaw
by
Beverly Cleary; Paul O. Zelinsky (Illustrator)
Call Number: Curric Lib Swider Collection Cleary
1984
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by
Milan Kundera; Michael Henry Heim (Translator)
Call Number: PG 5039.21 .U6 N413 1984
1985
Blood Meridian
by
Cormac McCarthy
Call Number: PS 3563 .C337 B4 1992 c.2
1986
The Blind Watchmaker
by
Richard Dawkins
Call Number: QH 366.2 .D37 1986
1987
The Bonfire of the Vanities
by
Tom Wolfe
Call Number: PS 3573 .O526 B6 1988
1988
A Brief History of Time
by
Stephen Hawking
Call Number: QB 981 .H377 1988
1989
Like Water for Chocolate
by
Laura Esquivel
Call Number: PQ 7298.15 .S638 C6613 1992
1990
The Things They Carried
by
Tim O'Brien
Call Number: j OBr Curric Lib
1991
Wild Swans
by
Jung Chang
Call Number: DS 774 .C3718 1991
1992
She's Come Undone
by
Wally Lamb
Call Number: PS 3562 .A433 S54 1997
1993
A Different Mirror
by
Ronald T. Takaki
Call Number: E 184 .A1 T335 1993
1994
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
by
John Berendt
Call Number: F 294 .S2 B48 1994
1995
Where the Heart Is
by
Billie Letts
Call Number: PS 3562 .E856 W48 1995
1996
Alias Grace
by
Margaret Atwood
Call Number: PR 9199.3 .A8 A79 1996
1997
Into Thin Air
by
Jon Krakauer
Call Number: GV 199.44 .E85 K725 1997
1998
The Poisonwood Bible
by
Barbara Kingsolver
Call Number: PS 3561 .I496 P65 1998
1999
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
by
Stephen Chbosky
Call Number: j Chb Curric Lib
2000
The Blind Assassin
by
Margaret Atwood
Call Number: PR 9199.3 .A8 B55 2000c
2001
Life of Pi
by
Yann Martel
Call Number: Curric Lib Swider Collection Martel
2002
The Tipping Point
by
Malcolm Gladwell
Call Number: HM 1033 G53 2002
2003
Purple Hibiscus
by
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Call Number: PR 9387.9 .A343 P87 2003
2004
The Cloud Atlas
by
Liam Callanan
Call Number: PS 3603 .A445 C35 2004
2005
The Book Thief
by
Markus Zusak
Call Number: j Zus Curric Lib
2006
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
by
John Boyne
Call Number: j Boy Curric Lib
2007
Half of a Yellow Sun
by
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Call Number: PR 9387.9 A34354 H36 2006
2008
Unaccustomed Earth
by
Jhumpa Lahiri
Call Number: PS 3562 A316 U53 2008
2009
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
by
William Kamkwamba; Bryan Mealer; Elizabeth Zunon (Illustrator)
Call Number: j 921 Kam Curric Lib
2010
Washington
by
Ron Chernow
Call Number: E 312 C495 2010
2011
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by
Rebecca Skloot
Call Number: RC 265.6 L24 S55 2011 c.2
2012
Flight Behavior
by
Barbara Kingsolver
Call Number: PS 3561 I496 F55 2012
2013
The Smartest Kids in the World
by
Amanda Ripley
Call Number: LB43 .R625 2013
2014
The Sixth Extinction
by
Elizabeth Kolbert
Call Number: QE 721.2 E97 K65 2014
2015
The Girl on the Train
by
Paula Hawkins
Call Number: [MCNAUGHTON] Hawkins
2016
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two (Special Rehearsal Edition Script)
by
J. K. Rowling; Jack Thorne; John Tiffany
Call Number: j Row Curric Lib
2017
Far from the Tree
by
Andrew Solomon; Laurie Calkhoven (Adapted by)
Call Number: j 362.4 Sol Curric Lib
2018
Transcription
by
Kate Atkinson
Call Number: [MCNAUGHTON] Atkinson
2019
On the Come Up
by
Angie Thomas
Call Number: j Tho Curric Lib
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