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
The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell by W. Kamau Bell
Call Number: 792.7 Bel
ISBN: 9781101985878
Publication Date: 2017-05-02
American Like Me by America Ferrera
Call Number: 920.073 Ame
ISBN: 9781501180910
Publication Date: 2018-09-25
Brunelleschi's Dome by Ross King
Call Number: 726.6 Kin
ISBN: 9781620401934
Publication Date: 2013-08-13
Becoming Mona Lisa by Donald Sassoon
Call Number: 759.5 SAS
ISBN: 0151008280
Publication Date: 2001-11-09
Talking Guitar by Jas Obrecht; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Library Southern Folklife Collection Staff (Contribution by)
Call Number: 787.87 Tal
ISBN: 9781469631646
Publication Date: 2017-05-08
Game On! by Dustin Hansen
Call Number: 794.8 HAN
ISBN: 9781250294456
Publication Date: 2019-02-19
Eyes of the World by Marina Budhos; Marc Aronson
Call Number: 920 Aro
ISBN: 9780805098358
Publication Date: 2017-03-28
Dear Theo by Irving Stone (Editor); Jean Stone (Editor)
Call Number: B VAN GOGH
ISBN: 0452275040
Publication Date: 1995-09-01
Wild and Crazy Guys by Nick de Semlyen
Call Number: 791.430 DES
ISBN: 9781984826640
Publication Date: 2019-05-28
The Dark Fantastic by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
Call Number: 808.3 Tho
ISBN: 9781479800650
Publication Date: 2019-05-21
The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti by Rafael Schacter; John Fekner (Foreword by)
Call Number: 751.7 Sch
ISBN: 9780300199420
Publication Date: 2013-09-03
Dreaming the Beatles by Rob Sheffield
Call Number: 782.421 She
ISBN: 9780062207661
Publication Date: 2018-06-19
1965: the Most Revolutionary Year in Music by Andrew Grant Jackson
Call Number: 781.64 Jac
ISBN: 9781250181718
Publication Date: 2018-07-10
Jay-Z by Michael Eric Dyson
Call Number: 782.421 Dys
ISBN: 9781250230966
Publication Date: 2019-11-26
The Genius of Women by Janice Kaplan
Call Number: 305.9 Kap
ISBN: 9781524744212
Publication Date: 2020-02-18
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
Call Number: 152.14 Way
ISBN: 9780140135152
Publication Date: 1990-12-01
Failing Up by Leslie Odom
Call Number: 158 Odo
ISBN: 9781250139962
Publication Date: 2018-03-27
Mad at the World by William Souder
Call Number: B STEINBECK
ISBN: 9780393292268
Publication Date: 2020-10-13
How to Write One Song by Jeff Tweedy
Call Number: 782.42 Twe
ISBN: 9780593183526
Publication Date: 2020-10-13
Light for the World to See by Alexander Kwame
Call Number: 811 Ale
ISBN: 9780358539414
Publication Date: 2020-11-17
The Storyteller by Dave Grohl
Call Number: B Grohl
ISBN: 9780063076099
Publication Date: 2021-10-05
Pandora's Jar by Natalie Haynes
Call Number: 292.211 Haynes
ISBN: 9780063139466
Publication Date: 2022-03-29
The Little Guide to Taylor Swift by Orange Hippo!
Call Number: 782.421 Swi
ISBN: 9781800691698
Publication Date: 2022-02-17
Taylor Swift: in Her Own Words by Helena Hunt
Call Number: 782.421 Swi
ISBN: 9781572842786
Publication Date: 2019-09-17
Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino
Call Number: 791.43 Tar
ISBN: 9780063112582
Publication Date: 2022-11-01
Divine Might by Natalie Haynes
Call Number: 292.2 Hay
ISBN: 9780063314672
Publication Date: 2024-01-02
The Swans of Harlem by Karen Valby
Call Number: 792.8 VAL
ISBN: 9780593317525
Publication Date: 2024-04-30
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Trying to Float by Nicolaia Rips
Call Number: B RIPS
ISBN: 9781501132988
Publication Date: 2016-07-12
On Writing by Stephen King
Call Number: B King
ISBN: 9781439193631
Publication Date: 2010-07-06
The Judgment of Paris by Ross King
Call Number: 759.4 Kin
ISBN: 9780802715166
Publication Date: 2007-01-03
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan
Call Number: 770.92 Ega
ISBN: 0618969020
Publication Date: 2012-10-09
Citizen Kane by Harlan Lebo
Call Number: 791.43 Leb
ISBN: 9781250077530
Publication Date: 2016-04-26
The Alice Behind Wonderland by Simon Winchester
Call Number: 823 Win
ISBN: 9780190614546
Publication Date: 2016-09-01
Vincent and Theo by Deborah Heiligman
Call Number: 920 Hei
ISBN: 9780805093391
Publication Date: 2017-04-18
Dreyer's English by Benjamin Dreyer
Call Number: 808.02 Dre
ISBN: 9780812995701
Publication Date: 2019-01-29
Rocking Toward a Free World by András Simonyi
Call Number: 305.235 SIM
ISBN: 9781538762219
Publication Date: 2019-06-04
Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith
Call Number: 811 Smi
ISBN: 9781566892186
Publication Date: 2008-09-01
So We Read On by Maureen Corrigan
Call Number: 813 Cor
ISBN: 9780316230063
Publication Date: 2015-05-12
You Gotta Want It by Jake Paul
Call Number: B Paul
ISBN: 9781501139475
Publication Date: 2016-10-11
Kasher in the Rye by Moshe Kasher
Call Number: B Kasher
ISBN: 9780446584265
Publication Date: 2012-03-28
Making Comics by Lynda Barry
Call Number: GN 808.83 Bar
ISBN: 9781770463691
Publication Date: 2019-11-05
The Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger
Call Number: 658.4 Ige
ISBN: 9780399592096
Publication Date: 2019-09-23
In Praise of Wasting Time by Alan Lightman
Call Number: 153.3Lig
ISBN: 9781501154362
Publication Date: 2018-05-15
Let Love Have the Last Word by Common
Call Number: B Common
ISBN: 9781501133152
Publication Date: 2019-05-07
Nobody Ever Asked Me about the Girls by Lisa Robinson
Call Number: 781.64 Rob
ISBN: 9781627794909
Publication Date: 2020-11-10
Can't Stop Won't Stop (Young Adult Edition) by Jeff Chang; Dave 'Davey D' Cook; Jeff Chang; Dave Cook
Call Number: 782.42 CHA
ISBN: 9781250790514
Publication Date: 2021-03-16
BTS: Blood, Sweat and Tears by Tamar Herman
Call Number: 782.4 HER
ISBN: 9781974717132
Publication Date: 2020-08-11
She Memes Well by Quinta Brunson
Call Number: 305.4 BRU
ISBN: 9781328638984
Publication Date: 2021-06-15
American Comics by Jeremy Dauber
Call Number: 741.5 Dau
ISBN: 9780393635607
Publication Date: 2021-11-02
Music, Math, and Mind by David Sulzer
Call Number: 781.1 SUL
ISBN: 9780231193795
Publication Date: 2021-04-27
Me, Myself and I by Orange Hippo!
Call Number: 782.421 Lit
ISBN: 9781800691278
Publication Date: 2021-11-02
Star Child by Ibi Zoboi
Call Number: B Butler
ISBN: 9780399187384
Publication Date: 2022-01-25
Radiant by Liz Heinecke
Call Number: B Fuller
ISBN: 9781538717363
Publication Date: 2021-02-16
Monsters on the Couch by Brian A. Sharpless (Contribution by)
Call Number: 791.43 SHA
ISBN: 9781641607919
Publication Date: 2023-10-03
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Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda; Jeremy McCarter
Call Number: 792.6 Ham
ISBN: 9781455539741
Publication Date: 2016-04-12
Humans of New York by Brandon Stanton
Call Number: 974.7 Sta
ISBN: 9781250058904
Publication Date: 2015-10-13
The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore
Call Number: 741.594 LEP
ISBN: 9780804173407(softcover)
Publication Date: 2015-07-07
Creative Quest by Questlove
Call Number: 153.3 Que
ISBN: 9780062670557
Publication Date: 2018-04-24
Mad Enchantment by Ross King
Call Number: 759.4 Kin
ISBN: 9781632860125
Publication Date: 2016-09-06
Symphony for the City of the Dead by M. T. Anderson
Call Number: 780 And
ISBN: 9780763668181
Publication Date: 2015-09-22
Rhythm Ride by Andrea Davis Pickney
Call Number: 781.644 Pin
ISBN: 9781596439733
Publication Date: 2015-09-29
The Secret Life of the American Musical by Jack Viertel
Call Number: 792.6 Vie
ISBN: 9780374256920
Publication Date: 2016-03-01
Saving Mona Lisa by Gerri Chanel
Call Number: 940.53 Cha
ISBN: 9781785784163
Publication Date: 2018-09-13
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay
Call Number: 811 GAY
ISBN: 9780822963318
Publication Date: 2015-01-07
The BreakBeat Poets by Kevin Coval (Editor); Quraysh Ali Lansana (Editor); Nate Marshall (Editor)
Call Number: 811 Bre
ISBN: 9781608463954
Publication Date: 2015-04-07
Rockonomics by Alan B. Krueger
Call Number: 338.4 Kru
ISBN: 9781524763718
Publication Date: 2019-06-04
MOVIES (and other things) by Shea Serrano
Call Number: 791.43 SER
ISBN: 9781538751008
Generation Friends by Saul Austerlitz
Call Number: 791.45 Aus
ISBN: 9781524743352
Publication Date: 2019-09-17
Queen Bey by Veronica Chambers
Call Number: 782.421 QUE
ISBN: 9781250200525
Publication Date: 2019-03-05
Naturally Tan by Tan France
Call Number: B France
ISBN: 9781250208668
Publication Date: 2019-06-04
Black Imagination by Natasha Marin (Editor)
Call Number: 811 BLA
ISBN: 9781944211844
Publication Date: 2020-02-04
The 99% Invisible City by Roman Mars; Kurt Kohlstedt
Call Number: 720 Mar
ISBN: 9780358126607
Publication Date: 2020-10-06
The Office by Andy Greene
Call Number: 791.45 Gre
ISBN: 9781524744977
Publication Date: 2020-03-24
Keep Going by Austin Kleon
Call Number: 153.3 Kle
ISBN: 9781523506644
Publication Date: 2019-04-02
The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock by Edward White
Call Number: B Hitchcock
ISBN: 9781324002390
Publication Date: 2021-04-13
Greek Myths by Charlotte Higgins; Chris Ofili (Drawings by)