Need some more suggestions to work your way through the Durham Tech Library’s Read Great Things Challenge? This month, in addition to our previous post about memoirs, biographies, and autobiographies, we’re highlighting fictionalized stories about real people.

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. Many of the books below can be found in our libraries, along with so many more!

Jamaican Shower Posse (Available through ILL)

Abraham Lincoln (Available at Main Campus, PS 3607 .R348 A64 2010)

Grace Marks, murderess (perhaps) (Available at Main Campus and OCC, PR 9199.3 .A8 A79 1997)

Charles Dickens (Available through ILL)

“Typhoid” Mary Mallon (Available at Main Campus, PS 3611 .E165 F48 2014)

Johannes Vermeer (Available through ILL)

Roman Emperor Claudius (Available at Main Campus, PR 6013 .R35 I2 1961)

Abraham and Willie Lincoln (Available soon at the Durham Tech Main Campus and OCC Libraries)

LIzzie Borden (Available at Main Campus, PR 9619.4 .S34 S44 2017)

Truman Capote, Babe Paley, and other New York socialites (Available through ILL)

Abolitionist John Brown (Available at Main Campus, Special Collections shelf, PS 3613 .C28 G66 2013)

Titanic passengers (Available at Main Campus, PZ 7.5 .W64 Wat 2011)

Thomas Cromwell (Available at Main Campus, Special Collections shelf, PR 6063 .A438

Malcolm X (Available at Main Campus, PZ 7.1 .S47 Xan 2015)