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
Never Out of Season by Robert Dunn
Call Number: 363.8 Dun
ISBN: 9780316260725
Publication Date: 2017-03-14
Bread, Wine, Chocolate by Simran Sethi
Call Number: 631.5 Set
ISBN: 9780061581076
Publication Date: 2015-11-10
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Call Number: 394.1 Pol
ISBN: 9780143038580
Publication Date: 2007-08-28
Chilled by Tom Jackson
Call Number: 621.5 Jac
ISBN: 9781472911438
Publication Date: 2015-09-22
The Truffle Underground by Ryan Jacobs
Call Number: 381 Jac
ISBN: 9780451495693
Publication Date: 2019-06-04
We Are the Weather by Jonathan Safran Foer
Call Number: 363.7 FOE
ISBN: 9780374280000
Publication Date: 2019-09-17
The Nom Wah Cookbook by Wilson Tang; Joshua David Stein
Call Number: 641.595 Tan
ISBN: 9780062965998
Publication Date: 2020-10-20
The Bee Book by DK; Emma Tennant (Contribution by); Fergus Chadwick (Contribution by)
Call Number: 595.70 CHA
ISBN: 9781465443830
Publication Date: 2016-03-01
Avocado Anxiety by Louise Gray
Call Number: 631.5 Gra
ISBN: 9781472969637
Publication Date: 2023-02-16
Omfg, Bees! by Matt Kracht
Call Number: 595.79 Kra
ISBN: 9781797219905
Publication Date: 2023-03-28
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Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat by Hal Herzog
Call Number: 304.2 Her
ISBN: 0061730866
Publication Date: 2010-09-07
Salt by Mark Kurlansky
Call Number: 909 Kur
ISBN: 0142001619
Publication Date: 2003-01-28
The Story of Seeds by Nancy F. Castaldo
Call Number: 581 CAS
ISBN: 9780544320239
Publication Date: 2016-02-23
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
Call Number: 641.3 Foe
ISBN: 9780316069885
Publication Date: 2010-09-01
Girl on the Block by Jessica Wragg
Call Number: 664.9 Wra
ISBN: 9780062863928
Publication Date: 2019-08-06
Thanks a Thousand by A. J. Jacobs
Call Number: 179 Jac
ISBN: 9781501119927
Publication Date: 2018-11-13
Animal, Vegetable, Junk by Mark Bittman
Call Number: 394.1 Bit
ISBN: 9781328974624
Publication Date: 2021-02-02
A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century by Heather Heying; Bret Weinstein
Call Number: 304.2 Hey
ISBN: 9780593086889
Publication Date: 2021-09-14
The Noom Mindset by Noom
Call Number: 613.2 Noo
ISBN: 9781982194291
Publication Date: 2022-12-27
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The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
Call Number: 304.2 Wei
ISBN: 9780312347291
Publication Date: 2007-07-10
Sugar Changed the World by Marc Aronson; Marina Tamar Budhos
Call Number: 664 Aro
ISBN: 0618574921
Publication Date: 2010-11-15
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
Call Number: 613 Pol
ISBN: 9781594201455
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Cooked by Michael Pollan
Call Number: 641.5 Pol
ISBN: 9780143125334
Publication Date: 2014-04-29
Food Fix by Mark Hyman
Call Number: 363.856 HYM
ISBN: 9780316453172
Publication Date: 2020-02-25
History of Tea by Laura C. Martin
Call Number: 641.337 Mar
ISBN: 9780804851121
Publication Date: 2018-09-04
The Secret History of Food by Matt Siegel
Call Number: 394.1 Sie
ISBN: 9780062973214
Publication Date: 2021-08-31
Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
Call Number: 305.42 KEN
ISBN: 9780525560548
Publication Date: 2020-02-25
Outlive by Peter Attia; Bill Gifford (As told to)
Call Number: 612.6 Att
ISBN: 9780593236598
Publication Date: 2023-03-28
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97 Orchard by Jane Ziegelman
Call Number: 394.1 Zie
ISBN: 0061288500
Publication Date: 2010-06-01
The Taste of Empire by Lizzie Collingham
Call Number: 338.1 Col
ISBN: 9780465056668
Publication Date: 2017-10-03
Food Rules by Michael Pollan
Call Number: 613.2 Pol
ISBN: 014311638X
Publication Date: 2009-12-29
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver; Camille Kingsolver; Steven L. Hopp
Call Number: 641 Kin
ISBN: 9780060852559
Publication Date: 2007-05-01
Empty by Susan Burton
Call Number: B Burton
ISBN: 9780812992847
Publication Date: 2020-06-23
Seed Money by Bartow J. Elmore
Call Number: 338.7 Elm
ISBN: 9781324002048
Publication Date: 2021-10-12
Somebody Feed Phil the Book by Phil Rosenthal; Jenn Garbee; Massimo Bottura (Foreword by)