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message 1: by Rebeca (last edited Mar 16, 2017 08:01AM) (new)

Mar 16, 2017 07:59AM

Read 20 non-fiction books. Five of the books should be award winning non-fiction.

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message 2: by Rosemarie (last edited Nov 04, 2017 09:18PM) (new)

Mar 27, 2017 09:20PM

1. Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 1992 (3/17)

2. The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America by Roger Kimball
(4/17)

3. Falling for Icarus: A Journey among the Cretans by Rory MacLean (4/17)

4. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller (5/17)

5. Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod by Gary Paulsen (5/17)

6. Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History 1998 (7/17)

7. When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II by Molly Guptill Manning (8/17)

8. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel (8/17)

9. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard
Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime 2012 (11/17)

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message 3: by Rosemarie (last edited Nov 24, 2017 08:21PM) (new)

Nov 10, 2017 05:49PM

10. Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould
Recipient of the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science 1990 (11/17)

11. The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World by Larry Zuckerman (11/17)

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message 4: by Rosemarie (last edited Jan 10, 2018 10:47AM) (new)

Jan 10, 2018 10:46AM

12. Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuściński
Winner of the Nagroda Literacka Nike 2005 (01/18)

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message 5: by Rebeca (last edited May 21, 2018 09:42AM) (new)

Jan 10, 2018 11:59AM

1. Julie & Julia by Julie Powell 12/17
2. Born a Crime by Trevor Noah 10/17
3. Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish 12/17
4. The Pursuit of Happyness 05/18

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message 6: by Rosemarie (new)

Jan 29, 2018 04:32PM

13. Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin

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message 7: by Rosemarie (last edited Mar 24, 2018 07:50PM) (new)

Mar 17, 2018 09:13PM

14. The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche by Gary Krist

15. Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington

16. Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown

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message 8: by Rosemarie (new)

May 07, 2018 08:00AM

17. Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich

Winner of A National Book Critics Circle Award

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message 9: by Rosemarie (new)

May 19, 2018 06:45PM

18. The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell

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message 10: by Rosemarie (new)

May 31, 2018 01:04PM

19. Patrimony by Philip Roth

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message 11: by Rosemarie (new)

Jun 12, 2018 06:14PM

20. The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf

Challenge completed.

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message 12: by Rebeca (new)

Jun 12, 2018 07:16PM

Nice work!!

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message 13: by Rosemarie (new)

Jun 12, 2018 07:33PM

Thanks.

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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (other topics)
Patrimony (other topics)
The Life of Samuel Johnson (other topics)
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (other topics)
Manchild in the Promised Land: A Modern Classic of the Black Experience (other topics)
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Andrea Wulf (other topics)
Philip Roth (other topics)
James Boswell (other topics)
Svetlana Alexievich (other topics)
Claude Brown (other topics)
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