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
Eyes of the World by Marina Budhos; Marc Aronson
Call Number: 920 Aro
ISBN: 9780805098358
Publication Date: 2017-03-28
A Thousand Sisters by Elizabeth Wein
Call Number: 940.54 Wei
ISBN: 9780062453013
Publication Date: 2019-01-22
Duty, Honor, Country by Stephen E. Ambrose
Call Number: 355.7 Amb
ISBN: 9780801800238
Publication Date: 1966-06-01
War Is... by Patty Campbell (Editor); Marc Aronson (Editor)
Call Number: 810.8 War
ISBN: 0763636258
Publication Date: 2008-09-09
Dead Wake by Erik Larson
Call Number: 940.4 Lar
ISBN: 9780307408860
Publication Date: 2015-03-10
An Album of Memories by Tom Brokaw
Call Number: 940.5 Bro
ISBN: 0375505814
Publication Date: 2001-05-01
Citizen Soldiers by Stephen E. Ambrose
Call Number: 940.54 Amb
ISBN: 0684815257
Publication Date: 1997-11-03
The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw
Call Number: 940.54 Bro
ISBN: 0375502025
Publication Date: 1998-11-30
Indianapolis by Lynn Vincent; Sara Vladic
Call Number: 940.54 Vin
ISBN: 9781501135941
Publication Date: 2018-07-10
No Easy Day by Mark Owen; Kevin Maurer
Call Number: 958.104 Owe
ISBN: 9780525953722
Publication Date: 2012-09-04
Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer
Call Number: B Tillman
ISBN: 0385522266
Publication Date: 2009-09-15
Enchanted Air Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir by Margarita Engle
Call Number: B Engle
ISBN: 9781518117695
Publication Date: 2015
A Game of Birds and Wolves by Simon Parkin
Call Number: 940.54 Par
ISBN: 9780316492096
Publication Date: 2020-01-28
Hitler's Willing Executioners by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Call Number: 940.53 Gol
ISBN: 9780679772682
Publication Date: 1997-01-28
The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
Call Number: 940.54 Lar
ISBN: 9780385348713
Publication Date: 2020-02-25
The Nazi Hunters by Neal Bascomb
Call Number: 364.15 Bas
ISBN: 9780545431002
Publication Date: 2018-04-24
The Light of Days by Judy Batalion
Call Number: 940.53 Bat
ISBN: 9780062874214
Publication Date: 2021-04-06
How Civil Wars Start by Barbara F. Walter
Call Number: 303.64 WAL
ISBN: 9780593137789
Publication Date: 2022-01-11
Frozen in Time by Mitchell Zuckoff
Call Number: 940.54 Zuc
ISBN: 0062133438
Publication Date: 2013-04-23
World War I
The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
Call Number: 040.4 TUC
ISBN: 9780345386236
Publication Date: 1994-03-08
A World Undone by G. J. Meyer
Call Number: 940.3 MEY
ISBN: 9780553382402
Publication Date: 2007-05-29
To End All Wars by Adam Hochschild
Call Number: 940.3 HOC
ISBN: 9780547750316
Publication Date: 2012-03-06
Good-Bye to All That by Robert Graves; Paul Fussell (Preface by)
Call Number: B Graves
ISBN: 9780385093309
Publication Date: 1958-02-01
Titles
We Are Displaced by Malala Yousafzai
Call Number: 305.230 YOU
ISBN: 9780316523646
Publication Date: 2019-01-08
A Magnificent Obsession by Helen Rappaport
Call Number: 942.08 Rap
ISBN: 1250031524
Publication Date: 2013-05-28
Bomb by Steve Sheinkin
Call Number: 623.4 She
ISBN: 9781596434875
Publication Date: 2012-09-04
When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain by Giles Milton
Call Number: 909 Mil
ISBN: 9781250078773
Publication Date: 2016-01-05
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler by Phillip Hoose
Call Number: 940.53 Hoo
ISBN: 9780374300227
Publication Date: 2015-05-12
Pegasus Bridge, June 6, 1944 by Stephen E. Ambrose
Call Number: 940.54 AMB
ISBN: 0671671561
Publication Date: 1988-11-15
Operation Mincemeat by Ben Macintyre
Call Number: 940.54 Mac
ISBN: 0307453278
Publication Date: 2010-05-04
The Last Days of the Romanovs by Helen Rappaport
Call Number: 947.08 Rap
ISBN: 0312379765
Publication Date: 2009-02-03
Ghosts of War by Ryan Smithson
Call Number: 956.704 Smi
ISBN: 0061664685
Publication Date: 2009-04-21
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places by Le Ly Hayslip; Jay Wurts
Call Number: 959.704 Hay
ISBN: 0385247583
Publication Date: 1989-04-29
I Am a Seal Team Six Warrior by Howard E. Wasdin; Stephen Templin
Call Number: B Wasdin
ISBN: 9781250016430
Publication Date: 2012-04-24
War Is Not over When It's Over by Ann Jones
Call Number: 363.34 Jon
ISBN: 9780805091113
Publication Date: 2010-09-14
Agent Garbo by Stephan Talty
Call Number: 940.5 Tal
ISBN: 9780547614816
Publication Date: 2012-07-03
A Light in the Darkness by Albert Marrin
Call Number: B Korczak
ISBN: 9781524701215
Publication Date: 2019-09-10
Tribe by Sebastian Junger
Call Number: 302.3 Jun
ISBN: 9781455566389
Publication Date: 2016-05-24
War by Margaret MacMillan
Call Number: 355.02 Mac
ISBN: 9781984856135
Publication Date: 2020-10-06
The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line by Mari Eder
Call Number: 920 Ede
ISBN: 9781728230924
Publication Date: 2021-08-03
Blaze of Light by Marcus Brotherton
Call Number: B BEI
ISBN: 9780525653806
Publication Date: 2021-05-11
I Could Not Do Otherwise by Sara Latta
Call Number: B walker
ISBN: 9781728413914
Publication Date: 2022-10-04
The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya; Elizabeth Weil
Call Number: B Wamariya
ISBN: 9780451495334
Publication Date: 2019-04-02
World War II Human Interest
The Perfect Horse by Elizabeth Letts
Call Number: 940.54 Let
ISBN: 9780345544827
Publication Date: 2017-05-23
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
Call Number: 797.12 Bro
ISBN: 9780670025817
Publication Date: 2013-06-04
Blitzed by Norman Ohler
Call Number: 362.29 OHL
ISBN: 9781328915344
Publication Date: 2018-03-06
The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman
Call Number: 940.53 Ack
ISBN: 9780393061727
Publication Date: 2007-09-17
A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell
Call Number: B Goillot
ISBN: 9780735225299
Publication Date: 2019-04-09
Agent Most Wanted by Sonia Purnell
Call Number: B Goillot
ISBN: 9780593350546
Publication Date: 2022-08-09
Inseparable by Faris Cassell
Call Number: 940 CAS
ISBN: 9781684512744
Publication Date: 2023-09-12
Impossible Escape by Steve Sheinkin
Call Number: 940.53 She
ISBN: 9781250265722
Publication Date: 2023-08-29
Operation Paperclip by Annie Jacobsen
Call Number: 940.5 JAC
ISBN: 9780316221030
Publication Date: 2015-01-20
Titles
Tribe by Sebastian Junger
Call Number: 302.3 Jun
ISBN: 9781455566389
Publication Date: 2016-05-24
Presidents of War by Michael Beschloss
Call Number: 355 BES
ISBN: 9780307409607
Publication Date: 2018-10-09
The Wild Blue by Stephen E. Ambrose
Call Number: 920 Amb
ISBN: 0743223098
Publication Date: 2002-05-07
Uprooted by Albert Marrin
Call Number: 940.53 Mar
ISBN: 9780553509373
Publication Date: 2016-10-25
Sabotage by Neal Bascomb
Call Number: 940.54 Bas
ISBN: 9780545732437
Publication Date: 2016-05-31
Left for Dead by Peter Nelson; Hunter Scott (Preface by)
Call Number: 940.54 NEL
ISBN: 0385729596
Publication Date: 2002-05-14
Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides
Call Number: 940.54 SID
ISBN: 0385495641
Publication Date: 2001-05-15
Long Shot by Azad
Call Number: 956.91 Cud
ISBN: 9780802129079
Publication Date: 2019-02-12
Most Dangerous by Steve Sheinkin
Call Number: 959.704 She
ISBN: 9781596439528
Publication Date: 2015-09-22
SEAL Team Six by Howard E. Wasdin; Stephen Templin
Call Number: B Wasdin
ISBN: 9781250006950
Publication Date: 2012-04-24
The End Is Always Near by Dan Carlin
Call Number: 904 CAR
ISBN: 9780062868046
Publication Date: 2019-10-29
Shoot Like a Girl by Mary Jennings Hegar
Call Number: B Hegar
ISBN: 9781101988435
Publication Date: 2017-03-07
Imperfect Union by Steve Inskeep
Call Number: 910.92 INS
ISBN: 9780735224353
Publication Date: 2020-01-14
Walk in My Combat Boots by James Patterson; Matt Eversmann; Chris Mooney (As told to)