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20 in 4 - Memoir/Biography: Home
20 in 4 - MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY
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
Hill Women by Cassie Chambers
Call Number: B CHAMBERS
ISBN: 9781984818911
Publication Date: 2020-01-07
Raising a Rare Girl by Heather Lanier
Call Number: B LANIER
ISBN: 9780525559634
Publication Date: 2020-07-07
Nevertheless, We Persisted by Amy Klobuchar (Foreword by)
Call Number: 170 Nev
ISBN: 9781524771966
Publication Date: 2018-09-04
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
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai; Patricia McCormick (As told to)
When Nobody Was Watching by Carli Lloyd; Wayne Coffey
Call Number: B Lloyd
ISBN: 9780544814622
Publication Date: 2016-09-26
This Is Just My Face by Gabourey 'Gabby' Sidibe
Call Number: B Sidibe
ISBN: 9780544786769
Publication Date: 2017-05-01
You Gotta Want It by Jake Paul
Call Number: B Paul
ISBN: 9781501139475
Publication Date: 2016-10-11
QB by Steve Young; Jeff Benedict
Call Number: B Young
ISBN: 9780544845763
Publication Date: 2016-10-11
Laughing at My Nightmare by Shane Burcaw
Call Number: B Burcaw
ISBN: 9781250080103
Publication Date: 2016-05-10
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie
Call Number: B Alexie
ISBN: 9780316270755
Publication Date: 2017-06-13
Being Jazz by Jazz Jennings
Call Number: B Jennings
ISBN: 9780399554643
Publication Date: 2016-06-07
This Is Me by Chrissy Metz
Call Number: B Metz
ISBN: 9780062837905
Publication Date: 2019-03-19
High School by Tegan Quin; Sara Keirsten Quin
Call Number: B QUIN
ISBN: 9780374169947
Publication Date: 2019-09-24
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Call Number: B Strayed
ISBN: 9780307592736
Publication Date: 2012-03-20
Survival Math by Mitchell S. Jackson
Call Number: 305.896 Jac
ISBN: 9781501131707
Publication Date: 2019-03-05
The Art of the Graphic Memoir by Tom Hart
Call Number: GN 741.5 Har
ISBN: 9781250113344
Publication Date: 2018-11-06
Naturally Tan by Tan France
Call Number: B France
ISBN: 9781250208668
Publication Date: 2019-06-04
Know My Name by Chanel Miller
Call Number: B Miller
ISBN: 9780735223707
Publication Date: 2019-09-24
The Mamba Mentality by Kobe Bryant; Pau Gasol (Foreword by); Phil Jackson (Introduction by); Andrew D. Bernstein (Photographer)
Call Number: 796.323 BRY
ISBN: 9780374201234
Publication Date: 2018-10-23
A Light in the Darkness by Albert Marrin
Call Number: B Korczak
ISBN: 9781524701215
Publication Date: 2019-09-10
Normal by Magdalena M. Newman; Nathaniel Newman; Neal Swaab (Illustrator)
Call Number: 920 New
ISBN: 9781328631831
Publication Date: 2020-01-14
A Very Punchable Face by Colin Jost
Call Number: B Jost
ISBN: 9781101906323
Publication Date: 2020-07-14
The Mockingbird Next Door by Marja Mills
Call Number: B LEE
ISBN: 9780143127666
Publication Date: 2015-05-05
God Grew Tired of Us by John Bul Dau; Michael Sweeney
Call Number: B Dau
ISBN: 9781426201141
Publication Date: 2007-01-16
Ordinary Hazards by Nikki Grimes
Call Number: B Grimes
ISBN: 9781629798813
Publication Date: 2019-10-08
Black Imagination by Natasha Marin (Editor)
Call Number: 811 BLA
ISBN: 9781944211844
Publication Date: 2020-02-04
The Dead Are Arising by Les Payne; Tamara Payne
Call Number: B X
ISBN: 9781631491665
Publication Date: 2020-10-20
This Is What America Looks Like by Ilhan Omar
Call Number: B Omar
ISBN: 9780062954213
Publication Date: 2020-05-26
The Zealot and the Emancipator by H. W. Brands
Call Number: 326 Bra
ISBN: 9780385544009
Publication Date: 2020-10-06
First Principles by Thomas E. Ricks
Call Number: 973.09 Ric
ISBN: 9780062997456
Publication Date: 2020-11-10
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
About Us by Peter Catapano (Editor); Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (Editor)
Call Number: 305.9 ABO
ISBN: 9781631495854
Publication Date: 2019-09-03
Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong
Call Number: B Hong
ISBN: 9781984820389
Publication Date: 2021-03-02
The Ugly Cry by Danielle Henderson
Call Number: B Henderson
ISBN: 9780525559351
Publication Date: 2021-06-08
World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Call Number: 590 NEZ
ISBN: 9781571311931
I Will Always Write Back by Martin Ganda; Caitlin Alifirenka; Liz Welch (As told to)
Call Number: 305.235 Ali
ISBN: 9780316241311
Publication Date: 2015-04-14
A Face for Picasso by Ariel Henley
Call Number: B Henley
ISBN: 9780374314071
Publication Date: 2021-11-02
My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor
Call Number: B Taylor
ISBN: 9780452295544
Publication Date: 2009-05-26
Camera Man by Dana Stevens
Call Number: B KEA
ISBN: 9781501134197
Publication Date: 2022-01-25
Becoming RBG by Debbie Levy; Whitney Gardner (Illustrator)
Call Number: GN B GINSBURG
ISBN: 9781534424562
Publication Date: 2019-11-05
On the Road Less Traveled by Ed Hajim; Glenn Plaskin
Call Number: B HAJ
ISBN: 9781510764248
Publication Date: 2021-03-02
Deaf Utopia by Nyle DiMarco; Robert Siebert
Call Number: B DiMarco
ISBN: 9780063062351
Publication Date: 2022-04-19
Will by Will Smith; Mark Manson (As told to)
Call Number: B Smith
ISBN: 9781984877925
Publication Date: 2021-11-09
Titles
Sitting Pretty by Rebekah Taussig
Call Number: B TAUSSIG
ISBN: 9780062936790
Publication Date: 2020-08-25
We Are Displaced by Malala Yousafzai
Call Number: 305.230 YOU
ISBN: 9780316523646
Publication Date: 2019-01-08
I Have the Right To by Chessy Prout; Jenn Abelson
Call Number: 362.88 Pro
ISBN: 9781534414440
Publication Date: 2019-03-05
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
My Shot by Elena Delle Donne; Sarah Durand (As told to)
Call Number: 796.323 Del
ISBN: 9781534412286
Publication Date: 2018-03-13
Finding Gobi by Dion Leonard
Call Number: 636.7 LEO
ISBN: 9780718098575
Publication Date: 2017-06-13
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Call Number: 917.404 BRY
ISBN: 0767902521
Publication Date: 1999-05-04
Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet
Call Number: B TAM
ISBN: 1416535071
Publication Date: 2007-01-09
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi; Abraham Verghese (Foreword by)
Call Number: 616.99 Kal
ISBN: 9780812988406
Publication Date: 2016-01-12
Funny, You Don't Look Autistic to Me by Michael McCreary
Call Number: 616.85 McC
ISBN: 9781725428775
Publication Date: 2019
The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf
Call Number: B Humboldt
ISBN: 9780385350662
Publication Date: 2015-09-15
Furious Hours by Casey Cep
Call Number: 364.152 Cep
ISBN: 9781101947869
Publication Date: 2019-05-07
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Call Number: 616.99 Muk
ISBN: 9781439170915
Publication Date: 2011-08-09
Never Shut Up by Marcellus Wiley
Call Number: B Wiley
ISBN: 9781524743222
Publication Date: 2018-10-23
This Is Me by Chrissy Metz
Call Number: B METZ
ISBN: 9780062837905
Publication Date: 2019-03-19
We Should Hang Out Sometime by Josh Sundquist
Call Number: B Sundquist
ISBN: 9780316251020
Publication Date: 2014-12-23
Americanized by Sara Saedi
Call Number: B Saedi
ISBN: 9781524717797
Publication Date: 2018-02-06
The Blind Side by Michael Lewis
Call Number: B Oher
ISBN: 9780393061239
Publication Date: 2006-09-17
Stronger by Jeff Bauman; Bret Witter
Call Number: B Bauman
ISBN: 9781478920397
Publication Date: 2017-09-12
Michael Jordan by Roland Lazenby
Call Number: B Jordan
ISBN: 9780316194778
Publication Date: 2014-05-06
You Gotta Want It by Jake Paul
Call Number: B Paul
ISBN: 9781501139475
Publication Date: 2016-10-11
Renia's Diary by Renia Spiegel
Call Number: B Spiegel
ISBN: 9781250244024
Publication Date: 2019-09-24
An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo
Call Number: 811 Har
ISBN: 9781324003861
Publication Date: 2019-08-13
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself (Annotated) by Robert J. Benz (Editor); Kenneth B. Morris (Foreword by); Bryan Stevenson (Introduction by); Nettie Washington Douglass (Footnotes by)
Call Number: B Douglass
ISBN: 9780998473000
Publication Date: 2017-01-30
Over the Top by Jonathan Van Ness
Call Number: B Van Ness
ISBN: 9780062906373
Publication Date: 2019-09-24
Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck; Jay Parini (Introduction by)
Call Number: 917.3 STE
ISBN: 9780140187410
Publication Date: 1997-04-01
Built, Not Born by Tom Golisano; Mike Wicks (As told to)
Call Number: 658.1 GOL
ISBN: 9781400217557
Publication Date: 2020-02-11
Dear Ally, How Do You Write a Book? by Ally Carter
Call Number: 808.02 Car
ISBN: 9781338212266
Publication Date: 2019-03-26
The Misfit's Manifesto by Lidia Yuknavitch
Call Number: 302 Yuk
ISBN: 9781501120060
Publication Date: 2017-10-24
Broken Places and Outer Spaces by Nnedi Okorafor
Call Number: 155.2 Oko
ISBN: 9781501195471
Publication Date: 2019-06-18
Running with Scissors by Augusten X. Burroughs
Call Number: B Burroughs
ISBN: 9780312422271
Publication Date: 2003-06-01
Empty by Susan Burton
Call Number: B Burton
ISBN: 9780812992847
Publication Date: 2020-06-23
A Most Beautiful Thing by Arshay Cooper
ISBN: 9781250754769
Publication Date: 2020-06-30
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
Call Number: B OBAMA
ISBN: 9781524763169
Publication Date: 2020-11-17
One Life by Megan Rapinoe; Emma Brockes
Call Number: B Rapinoe
ISBN: 9781984881168
Publication Date: 2020-11-10
I Was Their American Dream by Malaka Gharib
Call Number: GN B GHARIB
ISBN: 9780525575115
Publication Date: 2019-04-30
I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are by Rachel Bloom
Call Number: B Bloom
ISBN: 9781538745359
Publication Date: 2020-11-17
Walk in My Combat Boots by James Patterson; Matt Eversmann; Chris Mooney (As told to)
Call Number: 355.009 PAT
ISBN: 9780316429092
Publication Date: 2021-02-08
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
Chance by Uri Shulevitz
Call Number: B SHULEVITZ
ISBN: 9780374313715
Publication Date: 2020-10-13
LeBron, Inc by Brian Windhorst
Call Number: B James
ISBN: 9781538730874
Publication Date: 2019-04-09
Mengele by David G. Marwell
Call Number: B Mengele
ISBN: 9780393609530
Publication Date: 2020-01-28
The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock by Edward White
Call Number: B Hitchcock
ISBN: 9781324002390
Publication Date: 2021-04-13
Poet Warrior by Joy Harjo
Call Number: 818 Har
ISBN: 9780393248524
Publication Date: 2021-09-07
The Book of Hope by Jane Goodall; Douglas Abrams
Call Number: 128 Goo
ISBN: 9781250784094
Publication Date: 2021-10-19
Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang
Call Number: B WANG
ISBN: 9780385547215
Publication Date: 2021-09-07
The Rise by Mike Sielski
Call Number: B Bryant
ISBN: 9781250275721
Publication Date: 2022-01-11
LeBron's Dream Team by Lebron James; Buzz Bissinger