The Challenge: Read 20 engaging, inspiring, award-winning, best-selling, timely, narrative non-fiction books
over 4 years (outside of class) to get MORE out of high school and MORE out of life.
Titles
David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell
Call Number: 155.2 GLA
ISBN: 0316204366
Publication Date: 2013-10-01
Google It by Anna Crowley Redding
Call Number: 005.1 RED
ISBN: 9781250148223
Publication Date: 2018-08-14
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt; Stephen J. Dubner
Call Number: 330 LEV
ISBN: 006073132X
Publication Date: 2005-05-01
The Attention Merchants by Tim Wu
Call Number: 659.1 Wu
ISBN: 9780385352017
Publication Date: 2016-10-18
Range by David Epstein
Call Number: 153.9 EPS
ISBN: 9780735214484
Publication Date: 2019-05-28
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
ISBN: 9781501135927
Publication Date: 2018-05-01
The Baseball by Zack Hample
Call Number: 796.357
ISBN: 9780307475459
Publication Date: 2011-03-08
That Will Never Work by Marc Randolph
Call Number: 384.55 Ran
ISBN: 9780316530200
Publication Date: 2019-09-17
Make Trouble by Cecile Richards; Lauren Peterson (As told to)
Call Number: B Richards
ISBN: 9781501187599
Publication Date: 2018-04-03
Thanks a Thousand by A. J. Jacobs
Call Number: 179 Jac
ISBN: 9781501119927
Publication Date: 2018-11-13
Who Gets in and Why by Jeffrey Selingo
Call Number: 378.1 Sel
ISBN: 9781982116293
Publication Date: 2020-09-15
BTS: Blood, Sweat and Tears by Tamar Herman
Call Number: 782.4 HER
ISBN: 9781974717132
Publication Date: 2020-08-11
LeBron, Inc by Brian Windhorst
Call Number: B James
ISBN: 9781538730874
Publication Date: 2019-04-09
Cheated by Andy Martino
Call Number: 796.3576 MAR
ISBN: 9780385546799
Publication Date: 2021-06-08
The Power of Fun by Catherine Price
Call Number: 155.4 PRI
ISBN: 9780593241400
Publication Date: 2021-12-21
How Music Works by David Byrne
Call Number: 781.1 BYR
ISBN: 9780804188937
Publication Date: 2017-05-02
Valedictorians at the Gate by Becky Munsterer Sabky
Call Number: 378.1 Sab
ISBN: 9781250619037
Publication Date: 2021-08-03
Linked by Jeremy Schifeling; Omar Garriott; Lindsey Pollak (Foreword by)
Call Number: 650.14 Gar
ISBN: 9781523514168
Publication Date: 2022-05-03
Fashion Killa by Sowmya Krishnamurthy
Call Number: 306.4 KRI
ISBN: 9781982176327
Publication Date: 2023-10-10
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Dopesick by Beth Macy
Call Number: 362.29 Mac
ISBN: 9780316551243
Publication Date: 2018-08-07
Tools of Titans by Timothy Ferriss; Arnold Schwarzenegger (Foreword by)
Call Number: 081 FER
ISBN: 9781328683786
Publication Date: 2016-12-06
SuperFreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt; Stephen J. Dubner
Call Number: 330LEV
ISBN: 0060889578
Publication Date: 2009-10-20
Quarterback by John Feinstein
Call Number: 796.332 Fei
ISBN: 9780385543033
Publication Date: 2018-11-13
Exploding the Phone by Philip Lapsley
Call Number: 384.065 Lap
ISBN: 9780802120618
Publication Date: 2013-02-05
The Truffle Underground by Ryan Jacobs
Call Number: 381 Jac
ISBN: 9780451495693
Publication Date: 2019-06-04
The Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger
Call Number: 658.4 Ige
ISBN: 9780399592096
Publication Date: 2019-09-23
Super Pumped by Mike Isaac
Call Number: 388.4 Isa
ISBN: 9780393652246
Publication Date: 2019-09-03
How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
Call Number: 303.48 ODE
ISBN: 9781612197494
Publication Date: 2019-04-09
Peak by Anders Ericsson; Robert Pool
Call Number: 153.9 Eri
ISBN: 9780544947221
Publication Date: 2017-04-11
A Beautiful Mind, a Beautiful Life by Lindy Tsang
Call Number: B Tsang
ISBN: 9781945293627
Publication Date: 2018-06-12
Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
Call Number: 331.3 Bru
ISBN: 9780393249316
Publication Date: 2017-09-19
All Made Up by Rae Nudson
Call Number: 646.7 Nud
ISBN: 9780807059685
Publication Date: 2021-07-13
Black Nerd Problems by William Evans; Omar Holmon
Call Number: 305.896 EVA
ISBN: 9781982150235
Publication Date: 2021-09-14
In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
Call Number: 910.916 PHI
ISBN: 9780141001821
Publication Date: 2001-05-01
All-In on AI by Thomas H. Davenport; Nitin Mittal
Call Number: 658.056 Dav
ISBN: 9781647824693
Publication Date: 2023-01-24
Four Battlegrounds by Paul Scharre
Call Number: 355.4 Sch
ISBN: 9780393866865
Publication Date: 2023-02-28
The Cancer Factory by Jim Morris
Call Number: 658.3 MOR
ISBN: 9780807059142
Publication Date: 2024-01-23
The Algorithm by Hilke Schellmann
Call Number: 303.48 Sch
ISBN: 9780306827341
Publication Date: 2024-01-02
Burn Book by Kara Swisher
Call Number: 338.4 SWI
ISBN: 9781982163891
Publication Date: 2024-02-27
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Climate of Hope by Michael Bloomberg; Carl Pope
Call Number: 363.738 Blo
ISBN: 9781250142078
Publication Date: 2017-04-18
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Call Number: 302 GLA
ISBN: 0316017922
Publication Date: 2008-11-18
Bringing down the House by Ben Mezrich
Call Number: 364.1 Mez
ISBN: 0743225708
Publication Date: 2002-09-17
Big Game by Mark Leibovich
Call Number: 796.332 Lei
ISBN: 9780399185427
Publication Date: 2018-09-04
The Accidental Veterinarian by Philipp Schott
Call Number: 636.089 Sch
ISBN: 9781770414808
Publication Date: 2019-04-23
So You Want to Start a Podcast by Kristen Meinzer
Call Number: 006.7 Mei
ISBN: 9780062936677
Publication Date: 2019-08-06
Underland by Robert Macfarlane
Call Number: 551.44 Mac
ISBN: 9780393242140
Publication Date: 2019-06-04
Built, Not Born by Tom Golisano; Mike Wicks (As told to)
Call Number: 658.1 GOL
ISBN: 9781400217557
Publication Date: 2020-02-11
Pure Invention by Matt Alt
Call Number: 306.3 Alt
ISBN: 9781984826695
Publication Date: 2020-06-23
Discipline Equals Freedom by Jocko Willink
Call Number: 158.1 Wil
ISBN: 9781250156945
Publication Date: 2017-10-17
Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink; Leif Babin
Call Number: 303.3 Wil
ISBN: 9781250183866
Publication Date: 2017-11-21
The Debt Trap by Josh Mitchell
Call Number: 378.3 Mit
ISBN: 9781501199448
Publication Date: 2021-08-03
The Premonition by Michael Lewis
Call Number: 614.5 Lew
ISBN: 9780393881554
Publication Date: 2021-05-04
Four Streets and a Square: a History of Manhattan and the New York Idea by Marc Aronson
Call Number: 974.7 Aro
ISBN: 9780763651374
Publication Date: 2021-12-14
On the Road Less Traveled by Ed Hajim; Glenn Plaskin