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
Glimmer of Hope by The March for Our Lives Founders
Call Number: 363.3 Gli
ISBN: 9781984836090
Publication Date: 2018-10-16
Bringing down the House by Ben Mezrich
Call Number: 364.1 Mez
ISBN: 0743225708
Publication Date: 2002-09-17
Damnation Island by Stacy Horn
Call Number: 362.2 Hor
ISBN: 9781616205768
Publication Date: 2018-05-15
Charged by Emily Bazelon
Call Number: 345.73 BAZ
ISBN: 9780399590016
Publication Date: 2019-04-09
The Killer Across the Table by John E. Douglas; Mark Olshaker
Call Number: 364.152 DOU
ISBN: 9780062910639
Publication Date: 2019-05-07
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
Represent! by June Diane Raphael; Kate Black
Call Number: 320.082 Rap
ISBN: 9781523502974
Publication Date: 2019-09-03
This Land Is Their Land by Suketu Mehta
Call Number: 305.9 Meh
ISBN: 9780374276027
Publication Date: 2019-06-04
A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr; Marty Asher (Editor)
Call Number: 347.306 Har
ISBN: 9780679772675
Publication Date: 1996-08-27
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
Call Number: 305.8 Rot
ISBN: 9781631492853
Publication Date: 2017-05-02
White Rage by Carol Anderson
Call Number: 305.8 And
ISBN: 9781632864123
Publication Date: 2016-05-31
A Peculiar Indifference by Elliott Currie
Call Number: 305.8 Cur
ISBN: 9781250769930
Publication Date: 2020-09-15
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Call Number: 364 Ale
ISBN: 9781620975459
Publication Date: 2020-01-07
Becoming RBG by Debbie Levy; Whitney Gardner (Illustrator)
Call Number: GN B GINSBURG
ISBN: 9781534424562
Publication Date: 2019-11-05
Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth
Call Number: 322.4 Sta
ISBN: 9781250299055
Publication Date: 2018-07-31
A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan
Call Number: 322.4 Ega
ISBN: 9780735225268
Publication Date: 2023-04-04
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How I Resist by Maureen Johnson (Editor)
Call Number: 320 How
ISBN: 9781250168368
Publication Date: 2018-05-15
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
Doing Justice by Preet Bharara
Call Number: 347.73 Bha
ISBN: 9780525521129
Publication Date: 2019-03-19
Portrait of a Killer by Patricia Cornwell
Call Number: 364.15 COR
ISBN: 0399149325
Publication Date: 2002-11-11
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Call Number: B STE
ISBN: 9780812994520
Publication Date: 2014-10-21
Exploding the Phone by Philip Lapsley
Call Number: 384.065 Lap
ISBN: 9780802120618
Publication Date: 2013-02-05
Furious Hours by Casey Cep
Call Number: 364.152 Cep
ISBN: 9781101947869
Publication Date: 2019-05-07
Spies by Marc Favreau
Call Number: 327.127 Fav
ISBN: 9780316545921
Publication Date: 2019-10-01
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
The Cold Vanish by Jon Billman
Call Number: 363.2 Bil
ISBN: 9781538747575
Publication Date: 2020-07-07
The American Way of Poverty by Sasha Abramsky
Call Number: 362.5 Abr
ISBN: 9781568587264
Publication Date: 2013-09-10
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
Call Number: 976.6 Gra
ISBN: 9780307742483
Publication Date: 2018-04-03
America on Fire by Elizabeth Hinton
Call Number: 305.8 Hin
ISBN: 9781631498909
Publication Date: 2021-05-18
American Demon by Daniel Stashower
Call Number: 364,1 STA
ISBN: 9781250041166
Publication Date: 2022-09-06
Ripple by Jim Cosgrove
Call Number: 364.152 Cos
ISBN: 9781586423247
Publication Date: 2022-04-05
Walk the Blue Line by James Patterson; Matt Eversmann; Chris Mooney (As told to)
Call Number: 363.2 Pat
ISBN: 9780316406604
Publication Date: 2023-02-06
Smuggler's Blues by Richard Stratton
Call Number: B Stratton
ISBN: 9781628729115
Publication Date: 2019-01-01
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An American Summer by Alex Kotlowitz
Call Number: 364.15 Kot
ISBN: 9780385538800
Publication Date: 2019-03-05
Dopesick by Beth Macy
Call Number: 362.29 Mac
ISBN: 9780316551243
Publication Date: 2018-08-07
The Poisoned City by Anna Clark
Call Number: 363.6 Cla
ISBN: 9781250125149
Publication Date: 2018-07-10
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
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Call Number: 975.8 BER
ISBN: 0679429220
Publication Date: 1994-01-13
The Book of Pride by Mason Funk
Call Number: 920.008 Fun
ISBN: 9780062571700
Publication Date: 2019-05-21
The Outlaw Ocean by Ian Urbina
Call Number: 364 Urb
ISBN: 9780451492944
Publication Date: 2019-08-20
Life Undercover by Amaryllis Fox
Call Number: 327.127 fox
ISBN: 9780525654971
Publication Date: 2019-10-15
Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein
Call Number: 306 KLE
ISBN: 9781476700328
Publication Date: 2020-01-28
Biased by Jennifer L. Eberhardt
Call Number: 303.3 Ebe
ISBN: 9780735224933
Publication Date: 2019-03-26
His Truth Is Marching On by Jon Meacham; John Lewis (Afterword by)