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
Nevertheless, We Persisted by Amy Klobuchar (Foreword by)
Call Number: 170 Nev
ISBN: 9781524771966
Publication Date: 2018-09-04
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Call Number: 305.42 Adi
ISBN: 9781101911761
Publication Date: 2015-02-03
A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing by DaMaris B. Hill
Call Number: 305.48 Hil
ISBN: 9781635572612
Publication Date: 2019-01-15
I Have the Right To by Chessy Prout; Jenn Abelson
Call Number: 362.88 Pro
ISBN: 9781534414440
Publication Date: 2019-03-05
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
Call Number: B JAHREN
ISBN: 9781101874936
Publication Date: 2016-04-05
Girl Up by Laura Bates
Call Number: 305.242 Bat
ISBN: 9781501169199
Publication Date: 2017-07-11
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai; Patricia McCormick (As told to)
Call Number: B YOUSAFZAI
ISBN: 9780316327916
Publication Date: 2016-06-14
Rise of the Rocket Girls by Nathalia Holt
Call Number: 629.407 Hol
ISBN: 9780316338929
Publication Date: 2016-04-05
A Thousand Sisters by Elizabeth Wein
Call Number: 940.54 Wei
ISBN: 9780062453013
Publication Date: 2019-01-22
Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson
Call Number: B AND
ISBN: 9780670012107
Publication Date: 2019-03-12
Geek Girls Don't Cry by Andrea Towers; Marisha Ray (Foreword by)
Call Number: 305.4 TOW
ISBN: 9781454933397
Publication Date: 2019-04-02
The Underground Girls of Kabul by Jenny Nordberg
Call Number: 305.3 Nor
ISBN: 9780307952509
Publication Date: 2015-07-14
This Is Me by Chrissy Metz
Call Number: B Metz
ISBN: 9780062837905
Publication Date: 2019-03-19
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg
Call Number: 363.7 Thu
ISBN: 9780143133568
Publication Date: 2019-11-12
Monster, She Wrote by Lisa Kröger; Melanie R. Anderson
Call Number: 809 Kro
ISBN: 9781683691389
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
You Too? by Janet Gurtler
Call Number: 362.83 You
ISBN: 9781335929082
Publication Date: 2020-01-07
Broken Places and Outer Spaces by Nnedi Okorafor
Call Number: 155.2 Oko
ISBN: 9781501195471
Publication Date: 2019-06-18
Say Her Name by Zetta Elliott; Loveis Wise (Illustrator, Cover Design by)
Call Number: 811 Ell
ISBN: 9781368045247
Publication Date: 2020-01-14
The Mockingbird Next Door by Marja Mills
Call Number: B LEE
ISBN: 9780143127666
Publication Date: 2015-05-05
We Keep the Dead Close by Becky Cooper
Call Number: 364.152 COO
ISBN: 9781538746837
Publication Date: 2020-11-10
The Sediments of Time by Meave Leakey; Samira Leakey
Call Number: 599.9 Lea
ISBN: 9780358206675
Publication Date: 2020-11-10
The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson
Call Number: 576.5 ISA
ISBN: 9781982115852
Publication Date: 2021-03-09
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Call Number: B Nafisi
ISBN: 9780375504907
Publication Date: 2003-03-25
Frida in America by Celia Stahr
Call Number: B Kahlo
ISBN: 9781250113382
Publication Date: 2020-03-03
Nowhere Girl by Cheryl Diamond
Call Number: B Diamond
ISBN: 9781616208202
Publication Date: 2021-06-15
The Light of Days by Judy Batalion
Call Number: 940.53 Bat
ISBN: 9780062874214
Publication Date: 2021-04-06
Poet Warrior by Joy Harjo
Call Number: 818 Har
ISBN: 9780393248524
Publication Date: 2021-09-07
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz by Lucy Adlington
Call Number: 940.53 Adl
ISBN: 9780063030923
Publication Date: 2021-09-14
Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang
Call Number: B WANG
ISBN: 9780385547215
Publication Date: 2021-09-07
Pandora's Jar by Natalie Haynes
Call Number: 292.211 Haynes
ISBN: 9780063139466
Publication Date: 2022-03-29
My Greatest Save by Briana Scurry; Wayne Coffey; Robin Roberts (Foreword by)
Call Number: B SCURRY
ISBN: 9781419757679
Publication Date: 2022-06-21
Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
Call Number: 305.42 KEN
ISBN: 9780525560548
Publication Date: 2020-02-25
Agent Most Wanted by Sonia Purnell
Call Number: B Goillot
ISBN: 9780593350546
Publication Date: 2022-08-09
ISBN: 9780593296783
Good for a Girl by Lauren Fleshman
Call Number: 796.42 Fle
ISBN: 9780593296783
Publication Date: 2023-01-10
Fair Play by Katie Barnes
Call Number: 796 BAR
ISBN: 9781250276629
Publication Date: 2023-09-19
The Sisterhood by Liza Mundy
Call Number: 327.127 Mun
ISBN: 9780593238172
Publication Date: 2023-10-17
The Woman Who Smashed Codes by Jason Fagone
Call Number: 920 FAG
ISBN: 9780062430489
Publication Date: 2017-09-26
Titles
Three Cups of Tea by Sarah Thomson; David Oliver Relin
ISBN: 9780670034826
Publication Date: 2006-03-02
Here We Are by Kelly Jensen (Editor)
Call Number: 305.42 Her
ISBN: 9781616205867
Publication Date: 2017-01-24
Queer, There, and Everywhere by Sarah Prager; Zoë More O'Ferrall (Illustrator)
Call Number: 306.76 Pra
ISBN: 9780062474315
Publication Date: 2017-05-23
The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae
Call Number: 305.48 Rae
ISBN: 9781476749075
Publication Date: 2016-07-12
Trying to Float by Nicolaia Rips
Call Number: B RIPS
ISBN: 9781501132988
Publication Date: 2016-07-12
Visionary Women by Andrea Barnet
Call Number: 305.4 Bar
ISBN: 9780062310736
Publication Date: 2019-03-05
Girl Code by Andrea Gonzales; Sophie Houser
Call Number: 005.1 Gon
ISBN: 9780062472502
Publication Date: 2017-03-07
The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore
Call Number: 741.594 LEP
ISBN: 9780804173407(softcover)
Publication Date: 2015-07-07
A Magnificent Obsession by Helen Rappaport
Call Number: 942.08 Rap
ISBN: 1250031524
Publication Date: 2013-05-28
Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Jane Sherron de Hart
Call Number: B GIN
ISBN: 9781400040483
Publication Date: 2018-10-16
Dutch Girl by Luca Dotti (Foreword by); Robert Matzen
Call Number: 791.430 MAT
ISBN: 9781732273535
Publication Date: 2019-04-15
Represent! by June Diane Raphael; Kate Black
Call Number: 320.082 Rap
ISBN: 9781523502974
Publication Date: 2019-09-03
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Call Number: B Strayed
ISBN: 9780307592736
Publication Date: 2012-03-20
Bonnie and Clyde by Karen Blumenthal
Call Number: 920 Blu
ISBN: 9780451471222
Publication Date: 2018-08-14
Life Undercover by Amaryllis Fox
Call Number: 327.127 Fox
ISBN: 9780525654971
Publication Date: 2019-10-15
A Bookshop in Berlin by Françoise Frenkel; Patrick Modiano (Preface by)
Call Number: 940.53 Fre
ISBN: 9781501199844
Publication Date: 2019-12-03
Girl Stop Apologizing by Rachel Hollis
Call Number: 158.108 HOL
ISBN: 9781404110380
The Genius of Women by Janice Kaplan
Call Number: 305.9 Kap
ISBN: 9781524744212
Publication Date: 2020-02-18
Sing a Rhythm, Dance a Blues by Monique W. Morris
Call Number: 371.829 Mor
ISBN: 9781620973998
Publication Date: 2019-08-27
This Is Chance! by Jon Mooallem
Call Number: 363.34 Moo
ISBN: 9780525509912
Publication Date: 2020-03-24
One Life by Megan Rapinoe; Emma Brockes
Call Number: B Rapinoe
ISBN: 9781984881168
Publication Date: 2020-11-10
The Savvy Ally by Jeannie Gainsburg
Call Number: 306.760 GAI
ISBN: 9781538136775
Publication Date: 2020-03-12
Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad
Call Number: B JAOUAD
ISBN: 9780399588587
Publication Date: 2021-02-09
A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard
Call Number: B Dugard
ISBN: 9781451629187
Publication Date: 2011-07-12
All Made Up by Rae Nudson
Call Number: 646.7 Nud
ISBN: 9780807059685
Publication Date: 2021-07-13
She Memes Well by Quinta Brunson
Call Number: 305.4 BRU
ISBN: 9781328638984
Publication Date: 2021-06-15
The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line by Mari Eder
Call Number: 920 Ede
ISBN: 9781728230924
Publication Date: 2021-08-03
Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman
Call Number: 811 Gor
ISBN: 9780593465066
Publication Date: 2021-12-07
My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor
Call Number: B Taylor
ISBN: 9780452295544
Publication Date: 2009-05-26
Becoming RBG by Debbie Levy; Whitney Gardner (Illustrator)
Call Number: GN B GINSBURG
ISBN: 9781534424562
Publication Date: 2019-11-05
Grandma Gatewood's Walk by Ben Montgomery
Call Number: B GAT
ISBN: 9781613734995
Publication Date: 2016-04-01
Inaugural Ballers by Andrew Maraniss
Call Number: B Maraniss
ISBN: 9780593351246
Publication Date: 2022-09-13
The Lady and the Octopus by Danna Staaf
Call Number: B Villepreux-Power
ISBN: 9781728415772
Publication Date: 2022-10-04
I Could Not Do Otherwise by Sara Latta
Call Number: B walker
ISBN: 9781728413914
Publication Date: 2022-10-04
The Wind at My Back by Misty Copeland; Susan Fales-Hill (As told to)
Call Number: 792.8 COP
ISBN: 9781538753859
Publication Date: 2022-11-15
Hoop Muses by Seimone Augustus; Kate Fagan; Sophia Chang (Illustrator)
Call Number: 796.3 FAG
ISBN: 9781538709146
Publication Date: 2023-03-07
Unforgiving by Lindsey Jacobellis
Call Number: B jac
ISBN: 9780063294479
Publication Date: 2023-10-17
Taylor Swift by Terry Newman
Call Number: 782.4 NEW
ISBN: 9781788842280
Publication Date: 2023-10-19
A Greater Goal by Elizabeth Rusch
Call Number: 796.33 RUS
ISBN: 9780063220904
Publication Date: 2024-07-09
Titles
This Is One Way to Dance by Sejal Shah
Call Number: B SHAH
ISBN: 9780820357232
Publication Date: 2020-06-01
We Are Displaced by Malala Yousafzai
Call Number: 305.23
ISBN: 9780316523646
Publication Date: 2019-01-08
Our Stories, Our Voices by Amy Reed (Editor)
Call Number: 305.42 Our
ISBN: 9781534408999
Publication Date: 2018-08-14
How I Resist by Maureen Johnson (Editor)
Call Number: 320 How
ISBN: 9781250168368
Publication Date: 2018-05-15
Hunger by Roxane Gay
Call Number: 362.196 Gay
ISBN: 9780062362599
Publication Date: 2017-06-13
The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman
Call Number: 940.53
ISBN: 9780393061727
Publication Date: 2007-09-17
I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara; Gillian Flynn (Introduction by); Patton Oswalt (Afterword by)
Call Number: 364.15 McN
ISBN: 9780062319791
Publication Date: 2019-02-26
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
Call Number: 510.92 She
ISBN: 9780062363602
Publication Date: 2016-12-06
My Shot by Elena Delle Donne; Sarah Durand (As told to)
Call Number: 796.323 Del
ISBN: 9781534412286
Publication Date: 2018-03-13
First Women by Kate Andersen Brower
Call Number: 973.09 Bro
ISBN: 9780062439659
Publication Date: 2016-04-12
The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande
Call Number: B Grande
ISBN: 9781451661781
Publication Date: 2013-03-12
Born to Fly by Steve Sheinkin; Bijou Karman (Illustrator)
Call Number: 797.5 She
ISBN: 9781626721302
Publication Date: 2019-09-24
Unstoppable by Maria Sharapova; Rich Cohen
Call Number: B Sharapova
ISBN: 9780374279790
Publication Date: 2017-09-12
Educated by Tara Westover (Contribution by)
Call Number: B Westover
ISBN: 9780399590504
Publication Date: 2018-02-20
Feminists Don't Wear Pink (and Other Lies) by Scarlett Curtis
Call Number: 305.42 Fem
ISBN: 9781984819178
Publication Date: 2018-10-02
The Ones We've Been Waiting For by Charlotte Alter
Call Number: 320.973 ALT
ISBN: 9780525561507
Publication Date: 2020-02-18
Hill Women by Cassie Chambers
Call Number: B CHAMBERS
ISBN: 9781984818911
Publication Date: 2020-01-07
Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System by Sonya Huber
Call Number: 814 HUB
ISBN: 9780803299917
Publication Date: 2017-03-01
A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry; Kali Nicole Gross
Call Number: 305.48 Ber
ISBN: 9780807033555
Publication Date: 2020-02-04
This Is What America Looks Like by Ilhan Omar
Call Number: B Omar
ISBN: 9780062954213
Publication Date: 2020-05-26
I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are by Rachel Bloom
Call Number: B Bloom
ISBN: 9781538745359
Publication Date: 2020-11-17
Courage to Soar by Simone Biles; Michelle Burford (As told to); Mary Lou Retton (Foreword by)
Call Number: B Biles
ISBN: 9780310759669
Publication Date: 2016-11-15
Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas
Call Number: B Dumas
ISBN: 9781400060405
Publication Date: 2003-06-17
Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad
Call Number: 616.99 Jao
ISBN: 9780399588587
Publication Date: 2021-02-09
Grayson by Lynne Cox; Sean Yule (Other Primary Creator)
Call Number: 797.2 Cox
ISBN: 9780156034678
Publication Date: 2008-02-04
Broken (in the Best Possible Way) by Jenny Lawson
Call Number: B Lawson
ISBN: 9781250077035
Publication Date: 2021-04-06
A Face for Picasso by Ariel Henley
Call Number: B Henley
ISBN: 9780374314071
Publication Date: 2021-11-02
Almost American Girl by Robin Ha (Illustrator)
Call Number: GN B HA
ISBN: 9780062685100
Publication Date: 2020-01-28
Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford
Call Number: B FORD
ISBN: 9781250305978
Publication Date: 2021-06-01
Sidelined by Julie DiCaro
Call Number: 796.082 DIC
ISBN: 9781524746100
Publication Date: 2021-03-16
All In by Billie Jean King; Johnette Howard; Maryanne Vollers