Students, parents, and friends of West Sound Academy who would like to help the school's library acquire the books needed to support the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme can choose titles from the following list.  Each title is a link to the corresponding page on the website of Liberty Bay Books, an independent book store in Poulsbo.  Liberty Bay Books will donate twenty percent of all sales proceeds of West Sound Academy Wish List books to the library, to help it grow even more!  A bookplate with the donor's name will be placed in every book, and titles given in honor of students' birthdays can have that information noted on the bookplate too.  Contact Librarian Susan Trower with any questions.

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• View additional details on titles in the list. Click on the Catalog tab, then Visual Search, then the Wish List icon.  Click the Details link for a book in the list, then TitlePeek, to get more information.
• Search within the list for specific subjects, authors, or genres. Click on the Catalog tab, then Power, then do a search on (keyword) "Liberty Bay Books" AND (keyword) a subject, genre, or location of interest to get a list of the books meeting those criteria. For example, a search on "Liberty Bay Books" AND "Science Fiction" will show all the science fiction titles in the wish list.  A search on "Liberty Bay Books" AND "Drama" will show all the plays.

  Wish List books in alphabetical order by title
  A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

  • Affliction by Russell Banks
  • After the First Death by Robert Cormier
  • An Albany trio :Three Novels from the Albany Cycle by William Kennedy
  • Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
  • All But My Life by Gerda Weissman Klein
  • All Over But the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg
  • All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
  • The Amen Corner: A Play by James Baldwin
  • The American by Henry James
  • An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
  • Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
  • Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
  • Anthem by Ayn Rand
  • Antigone by Jean Anouilh
  • Antigone by Sophocles
  • As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text by William Faulkner
  • The Assistant by Bernard Malamud
  • The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
  • The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
  • The Awakening, and Other Stories by Kate Chopin

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  • Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
  • Black Boy (American Hunger): A Record of Childhood and Youth by Richard Wright
  • Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
  • Black Mischief  Scoop; The Loved One; The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold by Evelyn Waugh
  • Bleak House by Charles Dickens
  • The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design by Richard Dawkins
  • Blue Highways: A Journey into America by William Least Heat-Moon (William Trogdon)
  • Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
  • The Bone People by Keri Hulme
  • Boy's Life by Robert McCammon
  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  • Briar Rose by Jane Yolen

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  • Call It Sleep by Henry Roth
  • Candide and Other Stories by Voltaire
  • The Centaur by John Updike
  • Ceremony by Leslie Silko
  • The Chamber by John Grisham
  • Chromosome 6 by Robin Cook
  • The Cider House Rules by John Irving
  • Collected Stories including The Member of the Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Café by Carson McCullers
  • The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
  • Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody
  • The Complete Saki by Saki and H.H. Munro
  • The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka
  • The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
  • The Constant Gardener by John le Carré
  • The Crazy Horse Electric Game by Chris Crutcher

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  • Daisy Miller: A Study by Henry James
  • Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
  • Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear
  • David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
  • A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
  • Days of Grace: A Memoir by Arthur Ashe
  • Death Be Not Proud: A Memoir by John Gunther
  • A Death in the Family by James Agee
  • Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
  • Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth by Herman Hesse
  • Devil in a Blue Dress: An Easy Rawlins Mystery by Walter Mosley
  • Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
  • Don't Look Behind You by Lois Duncan
  • Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
  • Dracula by Bram Stoker
  • Dubliners by James Joyce
  • Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography by Zora Neale Hurston

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  • Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
  • Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
  • The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous
  • Exodus by Leon Uris

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  • The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe</li>
  • Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
  • Fences: 1957 by August Wilson
  • Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
  • Flatland: An Edition with Notes and Commentary by Edwin A. Abbott
  • Foundation's Fear by Gregory Benford
  • Four Major Plays: A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen

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  • Galápagos by Kurt Vonnegut
  • A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest J. Gaines
  • The Genesis Code by John Case
  • Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike
  • The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
  • Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin
  • Grendel by John Gardner
  • Growing Up by Russell Baker
  • Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
  • The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman

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  • The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
  • Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
  • The Heidi Chronicles and Other Plays by Wendy Wasserstein
  • The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams ;and, An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews by Henry Fielding
  • Homage to Catalonia ; Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
  • The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans
  • The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
  • The Hours by Michael Cunningham
  • The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
  • The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
  • Hunger of Memory :The Education of Richard Rodriguez : An Autobiography by Richard Rodriguez

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  • I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier
  • The Iliad by Homer
  • The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
  • In My Father's House by Ernest J. Gaines
  • Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
  • Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
  • The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
  • Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
  • Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
  • Izzy, Willy-Nilly by Cynthia Voigt

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  • Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

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  • Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Kim by Rudyard Kipling

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  • The Lady in the Lake; The Little Sister; The Long Goodbye; Playback by Raymond Chandler
  • The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization by Thomas L. Friedman
  • Lisa, Bright and Dark by John Neufeld
  • Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill
  • Lord Jim: A Tale by Joseph Conrad
  • The Lost World: Being an Account of the Recent Amazing Adventures of Professor George E. Challenger, Lord John Roxton, Professor Summerlee, and Mr. E.D. Malone of the Daily Gazette by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
  • Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich

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  • The Magus: A Revised Version by John Fowles
  • Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
  • Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
  • The Mask of Apollo by Mary Renault
  • Maurice by E.M. Forster
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
  • Memories of Summer by Ruth White
  • Microcosmos:  Four Billion Years of Evolution from our Microbial Ancestors by Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan
  • Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot
  • Mila 18 by Leon Uris
  • The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
  • Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
  • The Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
  • Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
  • Monkey Bridge by Lan Cao
  • The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck
  • The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
  • My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962, introduction by Blanche Wiesen Cook
  • My Dog Skip by Willie Morris
  • My Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

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  • Native Son by Richard Wright
  • Neanderthal by John Darnton
  • Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya
  • Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie
  • No Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  • Oedipus the King by Sophocles
  • Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
  • Old School by Tobias Wolff
  • On the Beach by Nevil Shute
  • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  • Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse

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  • Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
  • A Painted House by John Grisham
  • Pentimento: A Book of Portraits by Lillian Hellman
  • The Plague Tales by Ann Benson
  • The Plague; The Fall; Exile and the Kingdom; and Selected Essays by Albert Camus
  • Plays:  Ivanov; the Seagull; Uncle Vanya; Three Sisters; The Cherry Orchard by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
  • The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
  • The Ponder Heart by Eudora Welty
  • The Portable Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
  • Postcards from No Man's Land by Aidan Chambers
  • The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
  • The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell, with Bill Moyers
  • A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  • The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
  • The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
  • Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
  • Pudd'nhead Wilson, and, Those Extraordinary Twins by Mark Twain
  • Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts by Bernard Shaw

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  • The Rabbit Novels, Volume 1 (Rabbit, Run and Rabbit Redux) by John Updike
  • A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
  • The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
  • The Red Queen:  Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley
  • The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
  • Rocket Boys: A Memoir by Homer H. Hickam, Jr.
  • Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley
  • Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox
  • Running Loose by Chris Crutcher
  • Ryan White, My Own Story by Ryan White and Ann Marie Cunningham

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  • Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
  • The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
  • A Separate Peace by John Knowles
  • Shōgun: The Epic Novel of Japan by James Clavell
  • Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
  • The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Smack by Melvin Burgess
  • Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver
  • The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories by Ernest Hemingway
  • So Much to Tell You by John Marsden
  • Soldier's Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers : A Novel of the Civil War by Gary Paulsen
  • Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
  • Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
  • Sophie's Choice by William Styron
  • Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder
  • Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
  • The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence
  • Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
  • The Stranger by Albert Camus
  • Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
  • Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
  • A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
  • Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story by Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Sula by Toni Morrison

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  • Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest by Mark J. Plotkin
  • Tartuffe, and Other Plays by Molière ; translated and with an introduction by Donald M. Frame
  • Tex by S.E. Hinton
  • That Was Then, This Is Now by S.E. Hinton
  • Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
  • Thirty-nine Steps by John Buchan
  • Three Plays:  Desire Under the Elms ; Strange Interlude ; Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill
  • A Tidewater Morning: Three Tales from Youth by William Styron
  • 'Tis: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
  • To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
  • Toxin by Robin Cook
  • The Trial by Franz Kafka
  • Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose

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  • The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  • Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture by Apostolos Doxiadis

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  • Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray<
  • Villette by Charlotte Brontëli>

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  • Waiting for Godot: Tragicomedy in 2 Acts by Samuel Beckett
  • Walking Across Egypt by Clyde Edgerton
  • The Walking Drum by Louis L'Amour
  • The Warden by Anthony Trollope
  • The Water is Wide: A Memoir by Pat Conroy
  • The Watsons Go To Birmingham--1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
  • We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
  • Who Killed My Daughter? by Lois Duncan
  • Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
  • Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

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  • Year of Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Nyul Choi
  • You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Short Stories by Alice Walker

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