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.
Race
A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing by DaMaris B. Hill
Call Number: 305.48 Hil
ISBN: 9781635572612
Publication Date: 2019-01-15
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom by Lynda Blackmon Lowery; Elspeth Leacock (Retold by); Susan Buckley (Retold by); P. J. Loughran (Illustrator)
Call Number: 323.119 Low
ISBN: 0803741235
Publication Date: 2015-01-08
The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae
Call Number: 305.48 Rae
ISBN: 9781476749075
Publication Date: 2016-07-12
So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Call Number: 305.8 Olu
ISBN: 9781580056779
Publication Date: 2018-01-16
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Call Number: 305.8 Coa
ISBN: 9780812993547
Publication Date: 2015-07-14
Proud by Ibtihaj Muhammad; Lori Tharps (As told to)
Call Number: B MUHAMMAD
ISBN: 9780316518963
Publication Date: 2018-07-24
Getting Away with Murder by Chris Crowe
Call Number: 364.15 CRO
ISBN: 0803728042(acidfreepaper)
Publication Date: 2003-05-26
Getting Away with Murder by Chris Crowe
Call Number: 364.15 CRO
ISBN: 0803728042
Publication Date: 2003-05-26
One Goal by Amy Bass
Call Number: 796.334 Bas
ISBN: 9780316396547
Publication Date: 2018-02-27
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
Call Number: B Zeitoun
ISBN: 9781934781630
Publication Date: 2009-07-15
The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish
Call Number: B HAD
ISBN: 9781501181825
Publication Date: 2017-12-05
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo; Michael Eric Dyson (Foreword by)
Call Number: 305.8 Dia
ISBN: 9780807047415
Publication Date: 2018-06-26
Good Trouble by Christopher Noxon
Call Number: 323 Nox
ISBN: 9781419732355
Publication Date: 2019-01-08
The Dark Fantastic by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
Call Number: 808.3 Tho
ISBN: 9781479800650
Publication Date: 2019-05-21
How Dare The Sun Rise by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
Call Number: B Uwiringiyimana
ISBN: 9781549067310
Publication Date: 2017
Ink Knows No Borders by Patrice Vecchione; Alyssa Raymond; Javier Zamora
Call Number: 811 Ink
ISBN: 9781609809072
Publication Date: 2019-03-12
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
Call Number: 305.8 KEN
ISBN: 9781568585987
Publication Date: 2017-08-15
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Tatum
Call Number: 305.8 Tat
ISBN: 9780465060689
Publication Date: 2017-09-05
The Pretty One by Keah Brown
Call Number: 616.8 Bro
ISBN: 9781982100544
Publication Date: 2019-08-06
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz; Jean Mendoza; Debbie Reese (Adapted by)
Call Number: 970 REE
ISBN: 9780807049396
Publication Date: 2019-07-23
Survival Math by Mitchell S. Jackson
Call Number: 305.896 Jac
ISBN: 9781501131707
Publication Date: 2019-03-05
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
Queen Bey by Veronica Chambers
Call Number: 782.421 QUE
ISBN: 9781250200525
Publication Date: 2019-03-05
Jay-Z by Michael Eric Dyson
Call Number: 782.421 Dys
ISBN: 9781250230966
Publication Date: 2019-11-26
This Land Is Their Land by Suketu Mehta
Call Number: 305.9 Meh
ISBN: 9780374276027
Publication Date: 2019-06-04
The Burning by Tim Madigan; Timothy J. Madigan
Call Number: 976.6 Mad
ISBN: 9780312272838
Publication Date: 2001-11-02
They Called Themselves the K. K. K. by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Call Number: 322.4 Bar
ISBN: 9780618440337
Publication Date: 2010-08-23
The Gift of Our Wounds by Pardeep Singh Kaleka; Arno Michaelis
Call Number: 305.8 Mic
ISBN: 9781250107541
Publication Date: 2018-04-10
Biased by Jennifer L. Eberhardt
Call Number: 303.3 Ebe
ISBN: 9780735224933
Publication Date: 2019-03-26
Dressed in Dreams by Tanisha C. Ford
Call Number: 391 For
ISBN: 9781250173539
Publication Date: 2019-06-25
Red Hot Salsa by Lori Marie Carlson; Óscar Hijuelos (Introduction by)
Call Number: 811.008 Red
ISBN: 9780805076165
Publication Date: 2005-04-01
Say Her Name by Zetta Elliott; Loveis Wise (Illustrator, Cover Design by)
Call Number: 811 Ell
ISBN: 9781368045247
Publication Date: 2020-01-14
Dear America: Young Readers' Edition by Jose Antonio Vargas
Call Number: 364.1 Var
ISBN: 9780062914590
Publication Date: 2019-03-05
Sing a Rhythm, Dance a Blues by Monique W. Morris
Call Number: 371.829 Mor
ISBN: 9781620973998
Publication Date: 2019-08-27
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
Call Number: B MALCOLM X
ISBN: 9780345379757
Publication Date: 1992-09-29
Canyon Dreams by Michael Powell
Call Number: 796.323.POW
ISBN: 9780525534662
Publication Date: 2019-11-19
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
Call Number: 305.8 Rot
ISBN: 9781631492853
Publication Date: 2017-05-02
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
Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver
Call Number: B Cleaver
ISBN: 9780385333795
Publication Date: 1999-01-12
World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Call Number: 590 NEZ
ISBN: 9781571311931
The Dead Are Arising by Les Payne; Tamara Payne
Call Number: B X
ISBN: 9781631491665
Publication Date: 2020-10-20
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho
Call Number: 305.8 Ach
ISBN: 9781250800466
Publication Date: 2020-11-10
A Peculiar Indifference by Elliott Currie
Call Number: 305.8 Cur
ISBN: 9781250769930
Publication Date: 2020-09-15
The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee
Call Number: 305.8 McG
ISBN: 9780525509561
Publication Date: 2021-02-16
A Shot in the Moonlight by Ben Montgomery
Call Number: 976.9 Mon
ISBN: 9780316535540
Publication Date: 2021-01-26
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Call Number: 364 Ale
ISBN: 9781620975459
Publication Date: 2020-01-07
America on Fire by Elizabeth Hinton
Call Number: 305.8 Hin
ISBN: 9781631498909
Publication Date: 2021-05-18
Black Birds in the Sky by Brandy Colbert
Call Number: 976.6 Col
ISBN: 9780063056664
Publication Date: 2021-10-05
Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang
Call Number: B WANG
ISBN: 9780385547215
Publication Date: 2021-09-07
Almost American Girl by Robin Ha (Illustrator)
Call Number: GN B HA
ISBN: 9780062685100
Publication Date: 2020-01-28
I'm Still Here by Austin Channing Brown
Call Number: 305.896 Bro
ISBN: 9781524760854
Publication Date: 2018-05-15
All That She Carried by Tiya Miles
Call Number: 306.3 MIL
ISBN: 9781984854995
Publication Date: 2021-06-08
Loving vs. Virginia by Patricia Hruby Powell; Shadra Strickland (Illustrator)
Call Number: 813.54 Pow
ISBN: 9781452125909
Publication Date: 2017-01-31
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Call Number: 304.8 Wil
ISBN: 9780679763888
Publication Date: 2011-10-04
A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan
Call Number: 322.4 Ega
ISBN: 9780735225268
Publication Date: 2023-04-04
The Enduring, Invisible, and Ubiquitous Centrality of Whiteness by Kenneth V. Hardy (Editor)
Call Number: 305.809 End
ISBN: 9781324016908
Publication Date: 2022-05-17
Accountable by Dashka Slater
Call Number: 371.829 Sla
ISBN: 9780374314347
Publication Date: 2023-08-22
How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair
Call Number: B Sin
ISBN: 9781982132330
Publication Date: 2023-10-03
Dear Black Girls by A'ja Wilson
Call Number: 305.2 WIL
ISBN: 9781250290045
Publication Date: 2024-02-06
Social Class
Maid by Stephanie Land; Barbara Ehrenreich (Foreword by)
Call Number: 305.43 LAN
ISBN: 9780316505116
Publication Date: 2019-01-22
Undefeated by Steve Sheinkin; Connie Hsu (Editor)
Call Number: 796.332 She
ISBN: 9781596439542
Publication Date: 2017-01-17
Ninety Feet Under : What Poverty Does to People by John Strazzabosco
Call Number: 362.5 Str
ISBN: 9780995978249
Publication Date: 2018
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Call Number: B NOA
ISBN: 9780399588174
Publication Date: 2016-11-15
Charged by Emily Bazelon
Call Number: 345.73 BAZ
ISBN: 9780399590016
Publication Date: 2019-04-09
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Call Number: B STE
ISBN: 9780812994520
Publication Date: 2014-10-21
A Map Is Only One Story by Nicole Chung (Editor); Mensah Demary (Editor)
Call Number: 304.8 Map
ISBN: 9781948226783
Publication Date: 2020-02-11
Caste (Oprah's Book Club) by Isabel Wilkerson
Call Number: 305.5 WIL
ISBN: 9780593230251
Publication Date: 2020-08-04
The American Way of Poverty by Sasha Abramsky
Call Number: 362.5 Abr
ISBN: 9781568587264
Publication Date: 2013-09-10
Undocumented by Dan-el Padilla Peralta
Call Number: B Padilla Peralta
ISBN: 9780143109334
Publication Date: 2016-06-07
Activism
Nevertheless, We Persisted by Amy Klobuchar (Foreword by)
Call Number: 170 Nev
ISBN: 9781524771966
Publication Date: 2018-09-04
Three Cups of Tea by Sarah Thomson; David Oliver Relin
Call Number: 297 Mor
ISBN: 9780670034826
Publication Date: 2006-03-02
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Call Number: 305.42 Adi
ISBN: 9781101911761
Publication Date: 2015-02-03
How I Resist by Maureen Johnson (Editor)
Call Number: 320 How
ISBN: 9781250168368
Publication Date: 2018-05-15
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
Dead Man Walking by Helen Prejean; Tim Robbins (Afterword by); Susan Sarandon (Afterword by); Desmond Tutu (Preface by)
Call Number: 364.66 PRE
ISBN: 0679751319
Publication Date: 1994-05-31
Feminists Don't Wear Pink (and Other Lies) by Scarlett Curtis
Call Number: 305.42 Fem
ISBN: 9781984819178
Publication Date: 2018-10-02
His Truth Is Marching On by Jon Meacham; John Lewis (Afterword by)
Call Number: 328.73 MEA
ISBN: 9781984855022
Publication Date: 2020-08-25
Use the Power You Have by Pramila Jayapal
Call Number: 973.933 Jay
ISBN: 9781620971437
Publication Date: 2020-06-30
They Called Me a Lioness by Ahed Tamimi; Dena Takruri
Call Number: B Tamimi
ISBN: 9780593134580
Publication Date: 2022-09-06
King: a Life by Jonathan Eig
Call Number: B Kin
ISBN: 9780374279295
Publication Date: 2023-05-16
The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore
Call Number: B Pac
ISBN: 9781492696728
Publication Date: 2021-06-22
Children of the State by Jeff Hobbs
Call Number: 364.36 Hob
ISBN: 9781982116361
Publication Date: 2023-01-24
LGBTQ
Queer, There, and Everywhere by Sarah Prager; Zoë More O'Ferrall (Illustrator)
Call Number: 306.76 Pra
ISBN: 9780062474315
Publication Date: 2017-05-23
Becoming Nicole by Amy Ellis Nutt
Call Number: 306.76 Nut
ISBN: 9780812995411
Publication Date: 2015-10-20
The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater
Call Number: 364.15 Sla
ISBN: 9780374303235
Publication Date: 2017-10-17
The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell by W. Kamau Bell
Call Number: 792.7 Bel
ISBN: 9781101985878
Publication Date: 2017-05-02
It Gets Worse by Shane Dawson
Call Number: 792.702 Daw
ISBN: 9781501132841
Publication Date: 2016-07-19
Mama's Boy by Dustin Lance Black
Call Number: 306.76 BLA
ISBN: 9781524733278
Publication Date: 2019-04-30
The Book of Pride by Mason Funk
Call Number: 902.008 Fun
ISBN: 9780062571700
Publication Date: 2019-05-21
Uncensored by Zachary R. Wood
Call Number: B Wood
ISBN: 9781524742447
Publication Date: 2018-06-19
Naturally Tan by Tan France
Call Number: B France
ISBN: 9781250208668
Publication Date: 2019-06-04
The Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power
Call Number: B Power
ISBN: 9780062820693
Publication Date: 2019-09-10
Rapture Practice by Aaron Hartzler
Call Number: B Hartzler
ISBN: 9780316094641
Publication Date: 2014-05-27
A Queer History of the United States for Young People by Michael Bronski; Richie Chevat (Adapted by)