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
Damnation Island by Stacy Horn
Call Number: 362.2 Hor
ISBN: 9781616205768
Publication Date: 2018-05-15
Thirst by Scott Harrison
Call Number: 361.7 Har
ISBN: 9781524762841
Publication Date: 2018-10-02
Portrait of a Killer by Patricia Cornwell
Call Number: 364.15 COR
ISBN: 0399149325
Publication Date: 2002-11-11
Dinosaurs in the Attic by Douglas Preston
Call Number: 069 Pre
ISBN: 9780312104566
Publication Date: 1993-11-15
Operation Mincemeat by Ben Macintyre
Call Number: 940.54 Mac
ISBN: 0307453278
Publication Date: 2010-05-04
Dead Wake by Erik Larson
Call Number: 940.4 Lar
ISBN: 9780307408860
Publication Date: 2015-03-10
The First Conspiracy by Brad Meltzer; Josh Mensch
Call Number: 973.4 MEL
ISBN: 9781250130334
Publication Date: 2019-01-08
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
Call Number: 798.4 Hil
ISBN: 0449005615
Publication Date: 2002-03-26
The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw
Call Number: 940.54 Bro
ISBN: 0375502025
Publication Date: 1998-11-30
The Perfectionists by Simon Winchester
Call Number: 620 Win
ISBN: 9780062652553
Publication Date: 2018-05-08
Chilled by Tom Jackson
Call Number: 621.5 Jac
ISBN: 9781472911438
Publication Date: 2015-09-22
Rats by Robert Sullivan
Call Number: 599.35 Sul
ISBN: 9781582344775
Publication Date: 2005-04-11
Extreme Medicine by Kevin Fong
Call Number: 616.02 Fon
ISBN: 9780143126294
Publication Date: 2015-03-31
Apollo 8 by Jeffrey Kluger
Call Number: 629.45 Klu
ISBN: 9781627798327
Publication Date: 2017-05-16
The Wild Blue by Stephen E. Ambrose
Call Number: 920 Amb
ISBN: 0743223098
Publication Date: 2002-05-07
D-Day by Stephen E. Ambrose
Call Number: 940.54 Amb
ISBN: 9780684801377
Publication Date: 1995-06-01
Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda; Jeremy McCarter
Call Number: 792.6 Ham
ISBN: 9781455539741
Publication Date: 2016-04-12
Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose
Call Number: 917.804 AMB
ISBN: 0684811073(hc)
Publication Date: 1996-02-15
Bomb by Steve Sheinkin
Call Number: 623.4 She
ISBN: 9781596434875
Publication Date: 2012-09-04
Indianapolis by Lynn Vincent; Sara Vladic
Call Number: 940.54 Vin
ISBN: 9781501135941
Publication Date: 2018-07-10
Symphony for the City of the Dead by M. T. Anderson
Call Number: 780 And
ISBN: 9780763668181
Publication Date: 2015-09-22
Saving Mona Lisa by Gerri Chanel
Call Number: 940.53 Cha
ISBN: 9781785784163
Publication Date: 2018-09-13
The Making of Home by Judith Flanders
Call Number: 392.3 Fla
ISBN: 9781250067357
Publication Date: 2015-09-08
The Lion in the Living Room by Abigail Tucker
Call Number: 636.8 Tuc
ISBN: 9781476738239
Publication Date: 2016-10-18
In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
Call Number: 943.086 Lar
ISBN: 0307408841
Publication Date: 2011-05-10
Born to Fly by Steve Sheinkin; Bijou Karman (Illustrator)
Call Number: 797.5 She
ISBN: 9781626721302
Publication Date: 2019-09-24
The Circus Fire by Stewart O'Nan; Edward Coolbaugh Hoagland
Call Number: 974.6 O'n
ISBN: 9780385496841
Publication Date: 2000-06-20
Narcoland by Anabel Hernández; Roberto Saviano (Introduction by); Iain Bruce (Translator); Lorna Scott Fox (Translator)
Call Number: 363.45 Her
ISBN: 9781781680735
Publication Date: 2013-09-10
The Great Influenza by John M. Barry
Call Number: 614.5 BAR
ISBN: 9780143036494
Publication Date: 2005-10-04
Lies My Teacher Told Me for Young Readers by James W. Loewen; Rebecca Stefoff (Adapted by)
Call Number: 973 Loe
ISBN: 9781620974698
Publication Date: 2019-04-23
The Nazi Hunters by Neal Bascomb
Call Number: 364.15 Bas
ISBN: 9780545431002
Publication Date: 2018-04-24
Enemy of All Mankind by Steven Johnson
Call Number: 910.4 JOH
ISBN: 9780735211605
Publication Date: 2020-05-12
Four Hundred Souls by Ibram X. Kendi (Editor); Keisha N. Blain (Editor)
Call Number: 973 Fou
ISBN: 9780593134047
Publication Date: 2021-02-02
Facing the Mountain by Daniel James Brown
Call Number: 940.54 BRO
ISBN: 9780525557401
Publication Date: 2021-05-11
Mengele by David G. Marwell
Call Number: B Mengele
ISBN: 9780393609530
Publication Date: 2020-01-28
Fallout by Steve Sheinkin
Call Number: 972.91 She
ISBN: 9781250149015
Publication Date: 2021-09-07
Four Streets and a Square: a History of Manhattan and the New York Idea by Marc Aronson
Call Number: 974.7 Aro
ISBN: 9780763651374
Publication Date: 2021-12-14
Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
Call Number: 973.09 VOW
ISBN: 9780743260046
Publication Date: 2006-02-06
Red Famine by Anne Applebaum
Call Number: 947.708 App
ISBN: 9780804170888
Publication Date: 2018-09-04
Asylum by P. N. Singer (Epilogue by, Translator); Moriz Scheyer
Call Number: 940.5318 SCH
ISBN: 9780316272896
Publication Date: 2017-04-18
The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya; Elizabeth Weil
Call Number: B Wamariya
ISBN: 9780451495334
Publication Date: 2019-04-02
Blitzed by Norman Ohler
Call Number: 362.29 OHL
ISBN: 9781328915344
Publication Date: 2018-03-06
Smuggler's Blues by Richard Stratton
Call Number: B Stratton
ISBN: 9781628729115
Publication Date: 2019-01-01
Still Life with Bones by Alexa Hagerty
Call Number: 599.9 Hag
ISBN: 9780593443132
Publication Date: 2023-03-14
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Undefeated by Steve Sheinkin; Connie Hsu (Editor)
Call Number: 796.332 She
ISBN: 9781596439542
Publication Date: 2017-01-17
Stiff by Mary Roach
Call Number: 611 Roa
ISBN: 0393050939
Publication Date: 2003-04-17
The Borden Murders by Sarah Miller
Call Number: 345.744 Mil
ISBN: 9780553498080
Publication Date: 2016-01-12
The Radioactive Boy Scout by Ken Silverstein
Call Number: 621.48 Sil
ISBN: 0812966600
Publication Date: 2005-01-11
David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell
Call Number: 155.2 Gla
ISBN: 0316204366
Publication Date: 2013-10-01
Left for Dead by Peter Nelson; Hunter Scott (Preface by)
Call Number: 940.54 NEL
ISBN: 0385729596
Publication Date: 2002-05-14
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
Call Number: 978 Ega
ISBN: 9780618346974
Publication Date: 2005-12-14
Basketball (and Other Things) by Shea Serrano; Arturo Torres (Illustrator); Reggie Miller (Foreword by)
Call Number: 796.323 Ser
ISBN: 9781419726477
Publication Date: 2017-10-10
Sabotage by Neal Bascomb
Call Number: 940.54 Bas
ISBN: 9780545732437
Publication Date: 2016-05-31
Nothing Like It in the World by Stephen E. Ambrose
Call Number: 385 Amb
ISBN: 0684846098
Publication Date: 2000-08-29
Cooked by Michael Pollan
Call Number: 641.5 Pol
ISBN: 9780143125334
Publication Date: 2014-04-29
Krakatoa by Simon Winchester
Call Number: 551.21 Win
ISBN: 9780060838591
Publication Date: 2005-07-05
Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss; Frank McCourt (Foreword by)
Call Number: 428.2 Tru
ISBN: 1592400876(acidfreepaper)
Publication Date: 2004-04-12
The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman
Call Number: 940.53 Ack
ISBN: 9780393061727
Publication Date: 2007-09-17
A Thousand Sisters by Elizabeth Wein
Call Number: 940.54 Wei
ISBN: 9780062453013
Publication Date: 2019-01-22
A Magnificent Obsession by Helen Rappaport
Call Number: 942.08 Rap
ISBN: 1250031524
Publication Date: 2013-05-28
Duty, Honor, Country by Stephen E. Ambrose
Call Number: 355.7 Amb
ISBN: 9780801800238
Publication Date: 1966-06-01
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler by Phillip Hoose
Call Number: 940.53 Hoo
ISBN: 9780374300227
Publication Date: 2015-05-12
The Last Days of the Romanovs by Helen Rappaport
Call Number: 947.08 Rap
ISBN: 0312379765
Publication Date: 2009-02-03
Rhythm Ride by Andrea Davis Pickney
Call Number: 781.644 Pin
ISBN: 9781596439733
Publication Date: 2015-09-29
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Call Number: B OBAMA
ISBN: 9781524763138
Publication Date: 2018-11-13
Sugar Changed the World by Marc Aronson; Marina Tamar Budhos
Call Number: 664 Aro
ISBN: 0618574921
Publication Date: 2010-11-15
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
Call Number: 027 Orl
ISBN: 9781476740188
Publication Date: 2018-10-16
The American Spirit by David McCullough
Call Number: 973 McC
ISBN: 9781501174216
Publication Date: 2017-04-18
The Outlaw Ocean by Ian Urbina
Call Number: 639.2 Urb
ISBN: 9780451492944
Publication Date: 2019-08-20
Bonnie and Clyde by Karen Blumenthal
Call Number: 920 Blu
ISBN: 9780451471222
Publication Date: 2018-08-14
Murder in the Name of Honor by Rana Husseini
Call Number: 362.82 Hus
ISBN: 9781851685974
Publication Date: 2008-03-28
After the Fall by Catherine Ellis (Editor); Stephen Drury Smith (Editor); Mary Marshall Clark (Editor); Peter Bearman (Editor)
Call Number: 974.7 Aft
ISBN: 9781595586476
Publication Date: 2011-09-06
The Perfect Horse by Elizabeth Letts
Call Number: 940.54 LET
ISBN: 9780345544827
Publication Date: 2017-05-23
The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
Call Number: 940.54 Lar
ISBN: 9780385348713
Publication Date: 2020-02-25
The Zealot and the Emancipator by H. W. Brands
Call Number: 326 Bra
ISBN: 9780385544009
Publication Date: 2020-10-06
First Principles by Thomas E. Ricks
Call Number: 973.09 Ric
ISBN: 9780062997456
Publication Date: 2020-11-10
Land by Simon Winchester
Call Number: 333.3 Win
ISBN: 9780062938336
Publication Date: 2021-01-19
A Shot in the Moonlight by Ben Montgomery
Call Number: 976.9 Mon
ISBN: 9780316535540
Publication Date: 2021-01-26
The Debt Trap by Josh Mitchell
Call Number: 378.3 Mit
ISBN: 9781501199448
Publication Date: 2021-08-03
Black Birds in the Sky by Brandy Colbert
Call Number: 976.6 Col
ISBN: 9780063056664
Publication Date: 2021-10-05
Madhouse at the End of the Earth by Julian Sancton
Call Number: 919.89 SAN
ISBN: 9781984824349
Publication Date: 2022-02-22
The Bald Eagle by Jack E. Davis
Call Number: 598.9 DAV
ISBN: 9781631495250
Publication Date: 2022-03-01
With Their Eyes by Annie Thoms; David Levithan (Foreword by)
Call Number: 812.045 THO
ISBN: 9780060517182
Publication Date: 2011-08-23
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
Born to Be Hanged by Keith Thomson
Call Number: 010.4 Tho
ISBN: 9780316703611
Publication Date: 2022-05-10
A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan
Call Number: 322.4 Ega
ISBN: 9780735225268
Publication Date: 2023-04-04
Smuggler's Blues by Richard Stratton
Call Number: B Stratton
ISBN: 9781628729115
Publication Date: 2019-01-01
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Boom Town by Sam Anderson
Call Number: 976.6 And
ISBN: 9780804137317
Publication Date: 2018-08-21
Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham
Call Number: 363.17 Hig
ISBN: 9781501134616
Publication Date: 2019-02-12
The Trial of Lizzie Borden by Cara Robertson
Call Number: 345.744 Rob
ISBN: 9781501168376
Publication Date: 2019-03-12
The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston
Call Number: 972.85 Pre
ISBN: 9781455540006
Publication Date: 2017-01-03
When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain by Giles Milton
Call Number: 909 Mil
ISBN: 9781250078773
Publication Date: 2016-01-05
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
Call Number: 423 Win
ISBN: 9780060839789
Publication Date: 2005-07-05
The Boys in the Boat (Young Readers Adaptation) by Daniel James Brown
Call Number: 797.12 Bro
ISBN: 9780451475923
Publication Date: 2015-09-08
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
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
Call Number: 510.92 She
ISBN: 9780062363602
Publication Date: 2016-12-06
Underground by Will Hunt
Call Number: 624.1 Hun
ISBN: 9780812996746
Publication Date: 2019-01-29
Google It by Anna Crowley Redding
Call Number: 005.1 RED
ISBN: 9781250148223
Publication Date: 2018-08-14
Heart by Sandeep Jauhar
Call Number: 612.1 Jau
ISBN: 9780374168650
Publication Date: 2018-09-18
Rust by Jonathan Waldman
Call Number: 620.1 Wal
ISBN: 9781451691603
Publication Date: 2016-03-22
Eyes of the World by Marina Budhos; Marc Aronson
Call Number: 920 Aro
ISBN: 9780805098358
Publication Date: 2017-03-28
Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose
Call Number: 940.54 AMB
ISBN: 0743216385
Publication Date: 2001-06-01
Uprooted by Albert Marrin
Call Number: 940.53 Mar
ISBN: 9780553509373
Publication Date: 2016-10-25
Brunelleschi's Dome by Ross King
Call Number: 726.6 Kin
ISBN: 9781620401934
Publication Date: 2013-08-13
The Judgment of Paris by Ross King
Call Number: 759.4 Kin
ISBN: 9780802715166
Publication Date: 2007-01-03
Musicals by Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff; Elaine Paige (Foreword by)
Call Number: 782.14 Mus
ISBN: 9781465438867
Publication Date: 2015-10-27
97 Orchard by Jane Ziegelman
Call Number: 394.1 Zie
ISBN: 0061288500
Publication Date: 2010-06-01
The Taste of Empire by Lizzie Collingham
Call Number: 338.1 Col
ISBN: 9780465056668
Publication Date: 2017-10-03
Really Useful by Joel Levy
Call Number: 608 LEV
ISBN: 1552976238
Publication Date: 2002-10-05
Whistlestop by John Dickerson
Call Number: 973.09 Dic
ISBN: 9781455540488
Publication Date: 2016-08-02
The Day the World Came to Town 9/11 by Jim Defede
Call Number: 971.8 Def
ISBN: 0060559713
Publication Date: 2002
The End Is Always Near by Dan Carlin
Call Number: 904 CAR
ISBN: 9780062868046
Publication Date: 2019-10-29
A Bookshop in Berlin by Françoise Frenkel; Patrick Modiano (Preface by)
Call Number: 940.53 Fre
ISBN: 9781501199844
Publication Date: 2019-12-03
Agent Garbo by Stephan Talty
Call Number: 940.5 Tal
ISBN: 9780547614816
Publication Date: 2012-07-03
Imperfect Union by Steve Inskeep
Call Number: 910.92 INS
ISBN: 9780735224353
Publication Date: 2020-01-14
This Is Chance! by Jon Mooallem
Call Number: 363.34 Moo
ISBN: 9780525509912
Publication Date: 2020-03-24
The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander
Call Number: 813 Bol
ISBN: 9781250169488
Publication Date: 2018-01-23
Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston; Deborah G. Plant (Introduction by); Alice Walker (Foreword by)
Call Number: 306.3 Hur
ISBN: 9780062748201
Publication Date: 2018-05-08
The Last Book on the Left by Ben Kissel; Marcus Parks; Henry Zebrowski; Tom Neely (Illustrator)