Awards search:Texas Topaz Nonfiction Reading List

Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl

by Anne Frank
Hardcover, 1967
Collection
Children’s/YA Biography
Call number
JB FRANK

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

by Daniel James Brown
Hardcover, 2013
Collection
Northwest
Call number
NWC 979 BRO

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

by William Finnegan
Hardcover, 2015
Collection
Biography
Call number
B FINNEGAN

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

by Erik Larson
Hardcover, 2015
Collection
Nonfiction
Call number
940.4 LAR

The Wright Brothers

by David McCullough
Hardcover, 2015
Collection
Nonfiction
Series
Great Achievements in American History
Call number
629.130 MCC

The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate―Discoveries from a Secret World

by Peter Wohlleben
Hardcover, 2016
Collection
Nonfiction
Series
The Mysteries of Nature Trilogy (1)
Call number
585.5 WOH

Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras

by Duncan Tonatiuh
Hardcover, 2015
Collection
Easy / Picturebooks
Call number
E T

When Breath Becomes Air

by Paul Kalanithi
Hardcover, 2016
Collection
Biography
Call number
B KALANITHI

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

by Roxane Gay
Hardcover, 2017
Collection
Nonfiction
Call number
306.4

Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

by Margot Lee Shetterly
Paperback, 2016
Collection
Nonfiction
Call number
510.92 SHE

March: Book Three

by John Lewis
Paperback, 2016
Collection
Graphic Novels
Series
March (3)
Call number
GRAPH N LEW

I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark

by Debbie Levy
Hardcover, 2016
Collection
Children’s/YA Biography
Call number
JB GINSBURG

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

by David Grann
Hardcover, 2018
Collection
Nonfiction
Call number
976.6 GRA

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

by Trevor Noah
Hardcover, 2016
Collection
Biography
Call number
BIO NOA

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Hardcover, 2017
Collection
Nonfiction
Call number
523.01 TYS

You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir

by Sherman Alexie
Hardcover, 2017
Collection
Biography
Call number
BIO ALE

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

by Richard Rothstein
Paperback, 2018
Collection
Nonfiction
Call number
305.800 ROT

Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers

by Deborah Heiligman
Hardcover, 2017
Collection
Biography
Call number
BIO HEI

The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science

by Joyce Sidman
Hardcover, 2018
Collection
Children's/YA Fiction
Call number
JB MER

The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science

by Joyce Sidman
Hardcover, 2018
Collection
Children’s/YA Biography
Call number
JB MERIAN

The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life

by Lauren Markham
Paperback, 2018
Collection
Biography
Call number
BIO MAR

Educated: A Memoir

by Tara Westover
Hardcover, 2018
Collection
Biography
Call number
BIO WES

Book of Bones: 10 Record-Breaking Animals

by Gabrielle Balkan
Hardcover, 2017
Collection
Children’s/YA Nonfiction
Call number
J 596 BAL

The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century

by Kirk Wallace Johnson
Hardcover, 2018
Collection
Nonfiction
Call number
364.16 JOH

Free as a Bird: The Story of Malala

by Lina Maslo
Hardcover, 2018
Collection
Children’s/YA Biography
Call number
JB MALALA

Becoming

by Michelle Obama
Hardcover, 2018
Collection
Biography

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present

by David Treuer
Paperback, 2019
Collection
Nonfiction
Call number
970.004 TRE

The Library Book

by Susan Orlean
Hardcover, 2018
Collection
Nonfiction
Call number
027.009 ORL

They Called Us Enemy

by George Takei
Paperback, 2019
Collection
Graphic Novels
Call number
GRAPH N TAK

The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

by Melinda Gates
Hardcover, 2019
Collection
Nonfiction
Call number
305.42 GA

Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir

by Ruth Reichl
Hardcover, 2019
Collection
Biography
Call number
BIO REI

Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

by Lara Prior-Palmer
Hardcover, 2019
Collection
Biography
Call number
BIO PRI

No Visible Bruises: What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

by Rachel Louise Snyder
Hardcover, 2019
Collection
Nonfiction
Call number
362.82 SNY

Year of the Rabbit

by Tian Veasna
Paperback, 2020
Collection
Graphic Novels
Series
L'année du lièvre (Tomes 1-3)
Call number
GRAPH N VEA

Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio

by Derf Backderf
Hardcover, 2020
Collection
Graphic Novels
Call number
GRAPH N BAC

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning

by Jason Reynolds
Hardcover, 2020
Collections
Nonfiction, New Nonfiction
Call number
J 305.800 REY

Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West

by Lauren Redniss
Hardcover, 2020
Collection
Graphic Novels
Call number
GRAPH N RED

Crying in H Mart: A Memoir

by Michelle Zauner
Paperback, 2023
Collections
Just Added Books, Biography, New Biography
Call number
BIO ZAU

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

by James Nestor
Hardcover, 2020
Collections
Nonfiction, New Nonfiction
Call number
613 NES

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

by Isabel Wilkerson
Hardcover, 2020
Collection
Nonfiction
Call number
305.5 WIL

The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

by Walter Isaacson
Hardcover, 2021
Collection
Nonfiction
Call number
576.6 ISA

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

by Heather McGhee
Hardcover, 2021
Collection
Nonfiction
Call number
305.8 MCG

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

by Patrick Radden Keefe
Hardcover, 2021
Collection
Biography
Call number
BIO SAC

Keeping the City Going

by Brian Floca
Hardcover, 2021
Collection
Easy / Picturebooks
Call number
E F

The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

by Malcolm Gladwell
Hardcover, 2021
Collection
Nonfiction
Call number
940.5449 GLA

Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

by Mary Roach
Hardcover, 2021
Collection
Nonfiction
Call number
591.5 ROA

The People's Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice with Art

by Cynthia Levinson
Hardcover, 2021
Collection
Children’s/YA Biography
Call number
JB SHAHN

The Puzzler: One Man's Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life

by A.J. Jacobs
Hardcover, 2022
Collection
Nonfiction
Call number
793.73 JAC

How to Speak Whale: A Voyage into the Future of Animal Communication

by Tom Mustill
Hardcover, 2022
Collections
Nonfiction, New Nonfiction
Call number
591.59 MUS

The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

by Michelle Obama
Hardcover, 2022
Collection
Biography
Call number
BIO OBA
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