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
Getting Away with Murder by Chris Crowe
Call Number: 364.15 CRO
ISBN: 0803728042
Publication Date: 2003-05-26
The Trial of Lizzie Borden by Cara Robertson
Call Number: 345.744 Rob
ISBN: 9781501168376
Publication Date: 2019-03-12
The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw
Call Number: 940.54 Bro
ISBN: 0375502025
Publication Date: 1998-11-30
No Easy Day by Mark Owen; Kevin Maurer
Call Number: 958.104 Owe
ISBN: 9780525953722
Publication Date: 2012-09-04
Furious Hours by Casey Cep
Call Number: 364.152 Cep
ISBN: 9781101947869
Publication Date: 2019-05-07
Monster, She Wrote by Lisa Kröger; Melanie R. Anderson
Call Number: 809 Kro
ISBN: 9781683691389
Publication Date: 2019-09-17
Hitler's Willing Executioners by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Call Number: 940.53 Gol
ISBN: 9780679772682
Publication Date: 1997-01-28
The Great Influenza by John M. Barry
Call Number: 614.5 BAR
ISBN: 9780143036494
Publication Date: 2005-10-04
The Cold Vanish by Jon Billman
Call Number: 363.2 Bil
ISBN: 9781538747575
Publication Date: 2020-07-07
War by Margaret MacMillan
Call Number: 355.02 Mac
ISBN: 9781984856135
Publication Date: 2020-10-06
The Third Rainbow Girl by Emma Copley Eisenberg
Call Number: 364.152 Eis
ISBN: 9780316449212
Publication Date: 2021-01-19
Light for the World to See by Alexander Kwame
Call Number: 811 Ale
ISBN: 9780358539414
Publication Date: 2020-11-17
Black Birds in the Sky by Brandy Colbert
Call Number: 976.6 Col
ISBN: 9780063056664
Publication Date: 2021-10-05
Who Killed My Daughter? by Lois Duncan
Call Number: 364.1 Dun
ISBN: 0385307810
Publication Date: 1992-05-01
The Best Land under Heaven by Michael Wallis
Call Number: 978 Wal
ISBN: 9780871407696
Publication Date: 2017-06-06
Serial Killers of The 80s by J. Fritsch
Call Number: 364.152 Fri
ISBN: 9781454941682
Publication Date: 2022-08-02
A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger
Call Number: 364.152 Jun
ISBN: 9780060742690
Publication Date: 2007-04-03
The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule; Georgia Hardstark (Foreword by)
Call Number: 364.152 Rul
ISBN: 9780393868494
Publication Date: 2022-05-10
The Angel Makers by Patti McCracken
Call Number: 364.15 McC
ISBN: 9780063275034
Publication Date: 2023-03-14
The Cancer Factory by Jim Morris
Call Number: 658.3 MOR
ISBN: 9780807059142
Publication Date: 2024-01-23
Titles
Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
Call Number: 364.152 Lar
ISBN: 9781400080663
Publication Date: 2006-10-24
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Call Number: 364.152 Lar
ISBN: 9781594136245
Publication Date: 2013-02-26
An American Summer by Alex Kotlowitz
Call Number: 364.15 Kot
ISBN: 9780385538800
Publication Date: 2019-03-05
Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden
Call Number: 967.7305 Bow
ISBN: 0451205146
Publication Date: 2002-01-01
The End Is Always Near by Dan Carlin
Call Number: 904 CAR
ISBN: 9780062868046
Publication Date: 2019-10-29
Life Undercover by Amaryllis Fox
Call Number: 327.127 Fox
ISBN: 9780525654971
Publication Date: 2019-10-15
The Burning by Tim Madigan; Timothy J. Madigan
Call Number: 976.6 Mad
ISBN: 9780312272838
Publication Date: 2001-11-02
A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr; Marty Asher (Editor)
Call Number: 347.306 Har
ISBN: 9780679772675
Publication Date: 1996-08-27
The Nazi Hunters by Neal Bascomb
Call Number: 364.15 Bas
ISBN: 9780545431002
Publication Date: 2018-04-24
The Last Book on the Left by Ben Kissel; Marcus Parks; Henry Zebrowski; Tom Neely (Illustrator)
Call Number: 364.152 Kis
ISBN: 9781328566317
Publication Date: 2020-04-07
The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin
Call Number: 551.55 Las
ISBN: 9780060520762
Publication Date: 2005-10-11
The Light of Days by Judy Batalion
Call Number: 940.53 Bat
ISBN: 9780062874214
Publication Date: 2021-04-06
Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
Call Number: 973.09 VOW
ISBN: 9780743260046
Publication Date: 2006-02-06
Zodiac by Robert Graysmith
Call Number: 364.152 GRA
ISBN: 9780593199657
Publication Date: 2020-05-05
Murder among Friends by Candace Fleming
Call Number: 364.152 Fle
ISBN: 9780593177433
Publication Date: 2022-03-29
The Icepick Surgeon by Sam Kean
Call Number: 174 Kea
ISBN: 9780316496513
Publication Date: 2022-07-12
American Predator by Maureen Callahan
Call Number: B Keyes
ISBN: 9780143129707
Publication Date: 2020-06-09
Rogues by Patrick Radden Keefe
Call Number: 364,16 Kee
ISBN: 9780385548519
Publication Date: 2022-06-28
Inseparable by Faris Cassell
Call Number: 940 CAS
ISBN: 9781684512744
Publication Date: 2023-09-12
What the Dead Know by Barbara Butcher
Call Number: 614 But
ISBN: 9781982179380
Publication Date: 2023-06-20
Titles
Portrait of a Killer by Patricia Cornwell
Call Number: 364.15 COR
ISBN: 0399149325
Publication Date: 2002-11-11
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
I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara; Gillian Flynn (Introduction by); Patton Oswalt (Afterword by)