Hello, Durham Tech,

Here is our monthly list of book ideas for the Durham Tech Library’s Read Great Things Challenge! This month we are highlighting memoirs, biographies, autobiographies, and fictionalized stories about real people (look for this post soon!).

Any of these books will count for this category in the challenge, but you are more than welcome to find your own book as well. All of the books below can be found in our library, along with so many more!

Andre the Giant: Life and Legend by Box Brown

The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui

The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State by Jenna Krajeski and Nadia Murad

The Girl Who Fell to Earth by Sophia Al-Maria

Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes

Slow Getting Up: A Story of NFL Survival from the Bottom of the Pile by Nate Jackson

Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl by Donald Sturrock

The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida

1000 Lashes: Because I Say What I Think by Raif Badawi

I Am Malala by Christina Lamb and Malala Yousafzai

David Bowie: A Life by Dylan Jones

Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary by Joe Jackson

Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon

Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker by Kevin Mitnick and William L. Simon

America’s Mistress: The Life and Times of Eartha Kitt by John L. Williams

Prince of Los Cocuyos by Richard Blanco

Banksy: The Man Behind the Wall by Will Ellsworth-Jones

Manhood: How to Be a Better Man – Or Just Live with One by Terry Crews

Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson

If you haven’t started reading for the challenge yet, that’s okay! You can win with just five books if you choose wisely. You’ve got this!