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.
Biology
Follow Your Gut by Rob Knight; Brendan Buhler (As told to)
Call Number: 579 Kni
ISBN: 9781476784748
Publication Date: 2015-04-07
Missing Microbes by Martin J. Blaser
Call Number: 615.7 Bla
ISBN: 9781250069276
Publication Date: 2015-02-03
How to Clone a Mammoth by Beth Shapiro
Call Number: 591.68 Sha
ISBN: 9780691157054
Publication Date: 2015-04-05
Revolutionary Genius of Plants by Stefano Mancuso
Call Number: 580 Man
ISBN: 9781501187858
Publication Date: 2018-08-28
The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben; Tim Flannery (Foreword by); Jane Billinghurst (Translator)
Call Number: 582.16 Woh
ISBN: 9781771642484
Publication Date: 2016-09-13
Gulp by Mary Roach
Call Number: 612.3 Roa
ISBN: 9780393348743
Publication Date: 2014-04-01
Slime by Ruth Kassinger
Call Number: 579.8 KAS
ISBN: 9780544432932
Publication Date: 2019-06-11
Every Patient Tells a Story by Lisa Sanders
Call Number: 616.07 San
ISBN: 9780767922470
Publication Date: 2010-09-21
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Call Number: 616.99 Muk
ISBN: 9781439170915
Publication Date: 2011-08-09
The Genius of Dogs by Vanessa Woods; Brian Hare
Call Number: 636.7 Har
ISBN: 9780142180464
Publication Date: 2013-10-29
The Body by Bill Bryson
Call Number: 612 BRY
ISBN: 9780385539302
Publication Date: 2019-10-15
Crisis in the Red Zone by Richard Preston
Call Number: 614.5 Pre
ISBN: 9780812998832
Publication Date: 2019-07-23
Our Wild Calling by Richard Louv
Call Number: 615.8 Lou
ISBN: 9781616205607
Publication Date: 2019-11-05
On the Backs of Tortoises by Elizabeth Hennessy
Call Number: 508.866 Hen
ISBN: 9780300232745
Publication Date: 2019-10-29
The Great Influenza by John M. Barry
Call Number: 614.5 BAR
ISBN: 9780143036494
Publication Date: 2005-10-04
The Laws of Medicine by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Call Number: 610.92 Muk
ISBN: 9781476784847
Publication Date: 2015-10-13
Liquid Rules by Mark Miodownik
Call Number: 530.4 Mio
ISBN: 9780358108450
Publication Date: 2020-02-11
Behave by Robert M. Sapolsky
Call Number: 612.8 Sap
ISBN: 9781594205071
Publication Date: 2017-05-02
Hacking Darwin by Jamie Metzl
Call Number: 576.5 Met
ISBN: 9781492670094
Publication Date: 2019-04-23
The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson
Call Number: 576.5 ISA
ISBN: 9781982115852
Publication Date: 2021-03-09
The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar by Matt Simon
Call Number: 578.4 Sim
ISBN: 9780143128687
Publication Date: 2016-10-25
The Premonition by Michael Lewis
Call Number: 614.5 Lew
ISBN: 9780393881554
Publication Date: 2021-05-04
This Is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan
Call Number: 581.6 Pol
ISBN: 9780593296905
Publication Date: 2021-07-06
The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
Call Number: 598 ACK
ISBN: 9780399563126
Publication Date: 2017-04-11
Bringing Nature Home by Douglas W. Tallamy; Rick Darke (Contribution by)
Call Number: 639.9 Tal
ISBN: 9780881929928
Publication Date: 2009-04-01
The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
Call Number: 635.9 Orl
ISBN: 9780449003718
Publication Date: 2000-01-04
Breathless by David Quammen
Call Number: 614.5 Qua
ISBN: 9781982164362
Publication Date: 2022-10-04
The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben; Tim Flannery (Foreword by); Jane Billinghurst (Translator); Suzanne Simard (Contribution by)
Call Number: 582.16 Woh
ISBN: 9781771642484
Publication Date: 2016-09-13
The Genesis Machine by Amy Webb; Andrew Hessel
Call Number: 660.6 Web
ISBN: 9781541797918
Publication Date: 2022-02-15
What an Owl Knows by Jennifer Ackerman
Call Number: 598.7 Ack
ISBN: 9780593298886
Publication Date: 2023-06-13
Nursery Earth by Danna Staaf (Contribution by); Richard Strathmann (Contribution by)
Call Number: 591.3 Sta
ISBN: 9781615199327
Publication Date: 2023-06-06
Nature's Best Hope by Douglas W. Tallamy
Call Number: 635.9 Tal
ISBN: 9781604699005
Publication Date: 2020-02-04
"Tallamy lays out all you need to know to participate in one of the great conservation projects of our time. Read it and get started!" --Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction Douglas W. Tallamy's first book, Bringing Nature Home, awakened thousands of readers to an urgent situation: wildlife populations are in decline because the native plants they depend on are fast disappearing. His solution? Plant more natives. In this new book, Tallamy takes the next step and outlines his vision for a grassroots approach to conservation. Nature's Best Hope shows how homeowners everywhere can turn their yards into conservation corridors that provide wildlife habitats. Because this approach relies on the initiatives of private individuals, it is immune from the whims of government policy. Even more important, it's practical, effective, and easy--you will walk away with specific suggestions you can incorporate into your own yard. If you're concerned about doing something good for the environment, Nature's Best Hope is the blueprint you need. By acting now, you can help preserve our precious wildlife--and the planet--for future generations.
Food Science
Never Out of Season by Robert Dunn
Call Number: 363.8 Dun
ISBN: 9780316260725
Publication Date: 2017-03-14
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Call Number: 394.1 Pol
ISBN: 9780143038580
Publication Date: 2007-08-28
The Story of Seeds by Nancy F. Castaldo
Call Number: 581 CAS
ISBN: 9780544320239
Publication Date: 2016-02-23
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
Call Number: 613 Pol
ISBN: 9781594201455
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Food Rules by Michael Pollan
Call Number: 613.2 Pol
ISBN: 014311638X
Publication Date: 2009-12-29
Chilled by Tom Jackson
Call Number: 621.5 Jac
ISBN: 9781472911438
Publication Date: 2015-09-22
Cooked by Michael Pollan
Call Number: 641.5 Pol
ISBN: 9780143125334
Publication Date: 2014-04-29
The Way We Eat Now by Bee Wilson
Call Number: 641.01 WIL
ISBN: 9780465093977
Publication Date: 2019-05-07
We Are the Weather by Jonathan Safran Foer
Call Number: 363.7 FOE
ISBN: 9780374280000
Publication Date: 2019-09-17
The Invisible Kingdom by Meghan O'Rourke
Call Number: 616.044 ORO
ISBN: 9781594633799
Publication Date: 2022-03-01
The Bee Book by DK; Emma Tennant (Contribution by); Fergus Chadwick (Contribution by)
Call Number: 595.79 CHA
ISBN: 9781465443830
Publication Date: 2016-03-01
Physics/Space
The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel
Call Number: 522 Sob
ISBN: 9780670016952
Publication Date: 2016-12-06
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
Call Number: 510.92 She
ISBN: 9780062363602
Publication Date: 2016-12-06
Rise of the Rocket Girls by Nathalia Holt
Call Number: 629.407 Hol
ISBN: 9780316338929
Publication Date: 2016-04-05
Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking
Call Number: 500 HAW
ISBN: 9781984819192
Publication Date: 2018-10-16
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Call Number: 523.01 Tys
ISBN: 9780393609394
Publication Date: 2017-05-02
A Briefer History of Time by Erik Davies; Leonard Mlodinow; Stephen Hawking
Call Number: 523.1 Haw
ISBN: 9780553804362
Publication Date: 2005-09-27
StarTalk by Neil deGrasse Tyson (Editor); Charles Liu (Editor); Jeffrey Simons (Editor)
Call Number: 523.1 Sta
ISBN: 9781426217272
Publication Date: 2016-09-13
Exoplanets by Michael Summers (Contribution by); James S. Trefil
Call Number: 523.2 Sum
ISBN: 9781588346254
Publication Date: 2018-02-13
Death by Black Hole by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Call Number: 523.8 Tys
ISBN: 9780393350388
Publication Date: 2014-09-02
The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking
Call Number: 530.12 HAW
ISBN: 055380202X
Publication Date: 2001-11-06
Packing for Mars by Mary Roach
Call Number: 571.0919 Roa
ISBN: 9780393339918
Publication Date: 2011-04-04
The Radioactive Boy Scout by Ken Silverstein
Call Number: 621.48 Sil
ISBN: 0812966600
Publication Date: 2005-01-11
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
Call Number: 629.4 WOL
ISBN: 0553381350
Publication Date: 2001-10-30
Apollo 8 by Jeffrey Kluger
Call Number: 629.45 Klu
ISBN: 9781627798327
Publication Date: 2017-05-16
Chasing Space by Leland Melvin
Call Number: B MEL
ISBN: 9780062496720
Publication Date: 2017-05-23
Infinite Powers by Steven Strogatz
Call Number: 515 STR
ISBN: 9781328879981
Publication Date: 2019-04-02
The Vinyl Frontier by Jonathan Scott
Call Number: 780.26 SCO
ISBN: 9781472956132
Publication Date: 2019-05-21
Sam by Jonathan Waldman
Call Number: 629.8 Wal
ISBN: 9781501140594
Publication Date: 2020-01-07
Asteroid Hunters by Carrie Nugent
Call Number: 523.44 Nug
ISBN: 9781501120084
Publication Date: 2017-03-14
Music, Math, and Mind by David Sulzer
Call Number: 781.1 SUL
ISBN: 9780231193795
Publication Date: 2021-04-27
Starry Messenger by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Call Number: 523.1 TYS
ISBN: 9781250861504
Publication Date: 2022-09-20
The Matter of Everything by Suzie Sheehy
Call Number: 539.7 She
ISBN: 9780525658757
Publication Date: 2023-01-10
Simply Artificial Intelligence by Dk (Contribution by)
Call Number: 006.3 Qui
ISBN: 9780744076820
Publication Date: 2023-03-07
Science History
Sabotage by Neal Bascomb
Call Number: 940.54 Bas
ISBN: 9780545732437
Publication Date: 2016-05-31
SEAL Team Six by Howard E. Wasdin; Stephen Templin
Call Number: B Wasdin
ISBN: 9781250006950
Publication Date: 2012-04-24
The Perfectionists by Simon Winchester
Call Number: 620 Win
ISBN: 9780062652553
Publication Date: 2018-05-08
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
Call Number: B JAHREN
ISBN: 9781101874936
Publication Date: 2016-04-05
Nothing Like It in the World by Stephen E. Ambrose
Call Number: 385 Amb
ISBN: 0684846098
Publication Date: 2000-08-29
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Call Number: 500 Bry
ISBN: 0767908171
Publication Date: 2003-05-06
Seeing Further by Bill Bryson
Call Number: 506.041 Bry
ISBN: 9780061999772
Publication Date: 2011-11-08
Underground by Will Hunt
Call Number: 624.1 Hun
ISBN: 9780812996746
Publication Date: 2019-01-29
Nothing Like It in the World by Stephen E. Ambrose
Call Number: 973.8 Amb
ISBN: 0684846098
Publication Date: 2000-08-29
Dinosaurs in the Attic by Douglas Preston
Call Number: 069 Pre
ISBN: 9780312104566
Publication Date: 1993-11-15
Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
Call Number: 364.152 Lar
ISBN: 9781400080663
Publication Date: 2006-10-24
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte
Call Number: 567.9 BRU
ISBN: 9780062490421
Publication Date: 2018-04-24
Why Dinosaurs Matter by Kenneth Lacovara
Call Number: 567.9 Lac
ISBN: 9781501120107
Publication Date: 2017-09-19
The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
Call Number: 576.8 Kol
ISBN: 9781250062185
Publication Date: 2015-01-06
Heart by Sandeep Jauhar
Call Number: 612.1 Jau
ISBN: 9780374168650
Publication Date: 2018-09-18
Fever Season by Jeanette Keith
Call Number: 614.5 Kei
ISBN: 1608192229
Publication Date: 2012-10-02
Extreme Medicine by Kevin Fong
Call Number: 616.02 Fon
ISBN: 9780143126294
Publication Date: 2015-03-31
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Call Number: 363.738 CAR
ISBN: 9780329357399
Publication Date: 1962
Changing the Equation by Tonya Bolden
Call Number: 920 Bol
ISBN: 9781419707346
Publication Date: 2020-03-03
This Is Chance! by Jon Mooallem
Call Number: 363.34 Moo
ISBN: 9780525509912
Publication Date: 2020-03-24
The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything* by Hannah Fry; Adam Rutherford
Call Number: 500 HUT
ISBN: 9780393881578
Publication Date: 2022-01-11
What If? by Randall Munroe
Call Number: 500 MUN
ISBN: 9780544272996
Publication Date: 2014-09-02
A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century by Heather Heying; Bret Weinstein
Call Number: 304.2 Hey
ISBN: 9780593086889
Publication Date: 2021-09-14
Environment
Climate of Hope by Michael Bloomberg; Carl Pope
Call Number: 363.738 Blo
ISBN: 9781250142078
Publication Date: 2017-04-18
The Poisoned City by Anna Clark
Call Number: 363.6 Cla
ISBN: 9781250125149
Publication Date: 2018-07-10
Throwaway Nation by Jeff DONDERO
Call Number: 363.72 Don
ISBN: 9781538110324
Publication Date: 2019-03-15
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
Call Number: 304.2 Wei
ISBN: 9780312347291
Publication Date: 2007-07-10
Unstoppable by Bill Nye; Corey S. Powell (Editor)
Call Number: 363.738 Nye
ISBN: 9781250007148
Publication Date: 2015-11-10
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
Call Number: B Zeitoun
ISBN: 9781934781630
Publication Date: 2009-07-15
Coming of Age at the End of Nature by Julie Dunlap (Editor); Susan A. Cohen (Editor)
Call Number: 304.2 Com
ISBN: 9781595347800
Publication Date: 2016-10-11
Thirst by Scott Harrison
Call Number: 361.7 HAR
ISBN: 9781524762841
Publication Date: 2018-10-02
Krakatoa by Simon Winchester
Call Number: 551.21 Win
ISBN: 9780060838591
Publication Date: 2005-07-05
How to Read Water by Tristan Gooley
Call Number: 551.46 Goo
ISBN: 9781615193585
Publication Date: 2016-08-23
Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson
Call Number: 976.4 Lar
ISBN: 0609602330
Publication Date: 1999-08-24
The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells
Call Number: 304.2 Wal
ISBN: 9780525576709
Publication Date: 2019-02-19
The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf
Call Number: B Humboldt
ISBN: 9780385350662
Publication Date: 2015-09-15
We Are the Weather by Jonathan Safran Foer
Call Number: 636 Foe
ISBN: 9780374280000
Publication Date: 2019-09-17
Waters of the World by Sarah Dry
Call Number: 551.48 Dry
ISBN: 9780226507705
Publication Date: 2019-11-01
Underland by Robert Macfarlane
Call Number: 551.44 Mac
ISBN: 9780393242140
Publication Date: 2019-06-04
Collapse by Jared Diamond
Call Number: 304.2 Dia
ISBN: 9780143117001
Publication Date: 2011-01-04
Dancing with Bees by Brigit Strawbridge Howard
Call Number: 595.79 Str
ISBN: 9781603588485
Publication Date: 2019-09-13
What the Eyes Don't See by Mona Hanna-Attisha
Call Number: 615.9 Han
ISBN: 9780399590832
Publication Date: 2018-06-19
Reef Life by Callum Roberts
Call Number: 577.7 Rob
ISBN: 9781643133294
Publication Date: 2020-03-03
Seed Money by Bartow J. Elmore
Call Number: 338.7 Elm
ISBN: 9781324002048
Publication Date: 2021-10-12
The Anthropocene Reviewed (Signed Edition) by John Green
Call Number: 306 Gre
ISBN: 9780525555216
Publication Date: 2021-05-18
Where the Deer and the Antelope Play by Nick Offerman
Call Number: 973.93 Off
ISBN: 9781101984697
Publication Date: 2021-10-12
Home Waters by John N. Maclean
Call Number: 978.676 MAC
ISBN: 9780062944597
Publication Date: 2021-06-01
The Big Fix by Hal Harvey; Justin Gillis
Call Number: 363.738 Har
ISBN: 9781982123987
Publication Date: 2022-09-20
Lethal Tides by Catherine Musemeche
Call Number: 551.46 Mus
ISBN: 9780062991690
Publication Date: 2022-08-23
An Immense World by Ed Yong
Call Number: 591.5 Yon
ISBN: 9780593133231
Publication Date: 2022-06-21
The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt by Andrea Wulf; Lillian Melcher (Illustrator)