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.
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The World Is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman
Call Number: 303.48 Fri
ISBN: 9780374292799
Publication Date: 2006-04-18
Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose
Call Number: 940.54 AMB
ISBN: 0743216385
Publication Date: 2001-06-01
Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley; Ron Powers; Michael French (Adapted by)
Call Number: 940.54 Bra
ISBN: 0553111337
Publication Date: 2000-05-02
Long Shot by Azad
Call Number: 956.91 Cud
ISBN: 9780802129079
Publication Date: 2019-02-12
The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell by W. Kamau Bell
Call Number: 792.7 Bel
ISBN: 9781101985878
Publication Date: 2017-05-02
Glimmer of Hope by The March for Our Lives Founders
Call Number: 363.3 Gli
ISBN: 9781984836090
Publication Date: 2018-10-16
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Call Number: 305.8 Coa
ISBN: 9780812993547
Publication Date: 2015-07-14
Unstoppable by Bill Nye; Corey S. Powell (Editor)
Call Number: 363.738 Nye
ISBN: 9781250007148
Publication Date: 2015-11-10
Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose
Call Number: 917.804 AMB
ISBN: 0684811073
Publication Date: 1996-02-15
Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Jane Sherron de Hart
Call Number: B GIN
ISBN: 9781400040483
Publication Date: 2018-10-16
The Conservative Sensibility by George F. Will
Call Number: 320.52 WIL
ISBN: 9780316480932
Publication Date: 2019-06-04
The Code by Margaret O'Mara
Call Number: 338.7 Oma
ISBN: 9780399562181
Publication Date: 2019-07-09
Spies by Marc Favreau
Call Number: 327.127 Fav
ISBN: 9780316545921
Publication Date: 2019-10-01
When They Come for You by David Kirby
Call Number: 323 Kir
ISBN: 9781250064363
Publication Date: 2019-10-29
Moby-Duck by Donovan Hohn
Call Number: 551.46 Hoh
ISBN: 9780143120506
Publication Date: 2012-02-28
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
Call Number: B MALCOLM X
ISBN: 9780345379757
Publication Date: 1992-09-29
Use the Power You Have by Pramila Jayapal
Call Number: 973.933 Jay
ISBN: 9781620971437
Publication Date: 2020-06-30
The Hardest Job in the World by John Dickerson
Call Number: 352.23 Dic
ISBN: 9781984854513
Publication Date: 2020-06-16
Freedom by Sebastian Junger
Call Number: 323.44 Jun
ISBN: 9781982153410
Publication Date: 2021-05-18
I Never Thought of It That Way by Mónica Guzmán
Call Number: 153.6 GUZ
ISBN: 9781637740323
Publication Date: 2022-03-08
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
Freezing Order by Bill Browder
Call Number: 332.6 BRO
ISBN: 9781982153281
Publication Date: 2022-04-12
Red Notice by Bill Browder
Call Number: 332.6 BRO
ISBN: 9781476755748
Publication Date: 2015-10-20
Operation Paperclip by Annie Jacobsen
Call Number: 940.5 JAC
ISBN: 9780316221030
Publication Date: 2015-01-20
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Eyes of the World by Marina Budhos; Marc Aronson
Call Number: 920 Aro
ISBN: 9780805098358
Publication Date: 2017-03-28
Citizen Soldiers by Stephen E. Ambrose
Call Number: 940.54 Amb
ISBN: 0684815257
Publication Date: 1997-11-03
Operation Mincemeat by Ben Macintyre
Call Number: 940.54 Mac
ISBN: 0307453278
Publication Date: 2010-05-04
War by Sebastian Junger
Call Number: 958.104 Jun
ISBN: 0446556246
Publication Date: 2010-05-11
Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda; Jeremy McCarter
Call Number: 792.6 Ham
ISBN: 9781455539741
Publication Date: 2016-04-12
Climate of Hope by Michael Bloomberg; Carl Pope
Call Number: 363.738 Blo
ISBN: 9781250142078
Publication Date: 2017-04-18
Throwaway Nation by Jeff DONDERO
Call Number: 363.72 Don
ISBN: 9781538110324
Publication Date: 2019-03-15
Never Out of Season by Robert Dunn
Call Number: 363.8 Dun
ISBN: 9780316260725
Publication Date: 2017-03-14
The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis
Call Number: 320.973 LEW
ISBN: 9781324002642
Publication Date: 2018-10-02
The Good Soldiers by David Finkel
Call Number: 956.704 Fin
ISBN: 9780312430023
Publication Date: 2010-08-03
The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells
Call Number: 304.3 Wal
ISBN: 9780525576709
Publication Date: 2019-02-19
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
The Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power
Call Number: B Power
ISBN: 9780062820693
Publication Date: 2019-09-10
This Land Is Their Land by Suketu Mehta
Call Number: 305.9 Meh
ISBN: 9780374276027
Publication Date: 2019-06-04
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
The Black Friend: on Being a Better White Person by Frederick Joseph
Call Number: 305.8 Jos
ISBN: 9781536217018
Publication Date: 2020-12-01
Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
Call Number: 331.3 Bru
ISBN: 9780393249316
Publication Date: 2017-09-19
The Premonition by Michael Lewis
Call Number: 614.5 Lew
ISBN: 9780393881554
Publication Date: 2021-05-04
How Civil Wars Start by Barbara F. Walter
Call Number: 303.64 WAL
ISBN: 9780593137789
Publication Date: 2022-01-11
Dinners with Ruth by Nina Totenberg
Call Number: B Tot
ISBN: 9781982188085
Publication Date: 2022-09-13
A City on Mars by Kelly Weinersmith; Zach Weinersmith
Call Number: 629.4 Wel
ISBN: 9781984881724
Publication Date: 2023-11-07
The Cancer Factory by Jim Morris
Call Number: 658.3 MOR
ISBN: 9780807059142
Publication Date: 2024-01-23
On the House by John Boehner
Call Number: B BOE
ISBN: 9781250238443
Publication Date: 2021-04-13
Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen; Nate Powell
Call Number: GN 973 LOE
ISBN: 9781620977033
Publication Date: 2024-04-16
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Presidents of War by Michael Beschloss
Call Number: 355 BES
ISBN: 9780307409607
Publication Date: 2018-10-09
D-Day by Stephen E. Ambrose
Call Number: 940.54 Amb
ISBN: 9780684801377
Publication Date: 1995-06-01
Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides
Call Number: 940.54 SID
ISBN: 0385495641
Publication Date: 2001-05-15
No Easy Day by Mark Owen; Kevin Maurer
Call Number: 958.104 Owe
ISBN: 9780525953722
Publication Date: 2012-09-04
How I Resist by Maureen Johnson (Editor)
Call Number: 320 How
ISBN: 9781250168368
Publication Date: 2018-05-15
Doing Justice by Preet Bharara
Call Number: 347.73 Bha
ISBN: 9780525521129
Publication Date: 2019-03-19
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 World Without Us by Alan Weisman
Call Number: 304.2 Wei
ISBN: 9780312347291
Publication Date: 2007-07-10
Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham
Call Number: 363.17 Hig
ISBN: 9781501134616
Publication Date: 2019-02-12
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver; Camille Kingsolver; Steven L. Hopp
Call Number: 641 Kin
ISBN: 9780060852559
Publication Date: 2007-05-01
Represent! by June Diane Raphael; Kate Black
Call Number: 320.082 Rap
ISBN: 9781523502974
Publication Date: 2019-09-03
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Call Number: B Hamilton
ISBN: 9780143034759
Publication Date: 2005-03-29
Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein
Call Number: 306 KLE
ISBN: 9781476700328
Publication Date: 2020-01-28
The Ones We've Been Waiting For by Charlotte Alter
Call Number: 320.973 ALT
ISBN: 9780525561507
Publication Date: 2020-02-18
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
Call Number: B OBAMA
ISBN: 9781524763169
Publication Date: 2020-11-17
This Is What America Looks Like by Ilhan Omar
Call Number: B Omar
ISBN: 9780062954213
Publication Date: 2020-05-26
The Room Where It Happened by John R. Bolton
Call Number: 973.933 BOL
ISBN: 9781982148034
Publication Date: 2020-06-23
America on Fire by Elizabeth Hinton
Call Number: 305.8 Hin
ISBN: 9781631498909
Publication Date: 2021-05-18
Israel by Noa Tishby
Call Number: 956.94 Tis
ISBN: 9781982144937
Publication Date: 2021-04-06
The Violence Project by Jillian Peterson; James Densley