Texas Topaz Nonfiction Reading List2020

Given by Texas Library Association (TLA)

Other Names: Texas Topaz Nonfiction List, TLA Texas Topaz Nonfiction Reading List
87 Works / 88 Items 45,550 Books 2,151 Reviews 4.2
Categories:
All, Adult for Young Adult (24), Adults (283), Grades 3-12 (1), Grades 3-5 (98), Grades 3-6 (4), Grades 5-8 (9), Grades 6-12 (2), Grades 6-8 (64), Grades 6-9 (14), Grades 9-12 (83), Grades K-2 (146), Youth (68)
Years:
All, 2024 (100), 2023 (108), 2022 (125), 2021 (94), 2020 (88), 2019 (124), 2018 (101), 2017 (56)
Announced:
January 16: 2024 Recent
WorkCategoryYear
Failing Up: How to Take Risks, Aim Higher, and Never Stop Learning by Leslie Odom Jr.
Adult for Young Adult2020
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Adult for Young Adult2020
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest by Hanif Abdurraqib
Adults2020
We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time by José Andrés
Adults2020
Ladysitting: My Year with Nana at the End of Her Century by Lorene Cary
Adults2020
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep
Adults2020
Where the Lost Dogs Go: A Story of Love, Search, and the Power of Reunion by Susannah Charleson
Adults2020
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Jr Gates
Adults2020
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda Gates
Adults2020
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
Adults2020
Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science by Carey Gillam
Adults2020
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb
Adults2020
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett M. Graff
Adults2020
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham
Adults2020
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson
Adults2020
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
Adults2020
The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth by Josh Levin
Adults2020
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy
Adults2020
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison
Adults2020
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Adults2020
The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O'Meara
Adults2020
Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir by Kwame Onwuachi
Adults2020
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
Adults2020
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters by Priya Parker
Adults2020
Texas Flood: The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan by Alan Paul
Adults2020
Diamond Doris: The True Story of the World's Most Notorious Jewel Thief by Doris Payne
Adults2020
Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come by Richard Preston
Adults2020
Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir by Ruth Reichl
Adults2020
Why To Kill a Mockingbird Matters: What Harper Lee's Book and the Iconic American Film Mean to Us Today by Tom Santopietro
Adults2020
Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist by Eli Saslow
Adults2020
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro
Adults2020
No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us by Rachel Louise Snyder
Adults2020
Everything You Love Will Burn: Inside the Rebirth of White Nationalism in America by Vegas Tenold
Adults2020
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer
Adults2020
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves by Frans de Waal
Adults2020
All in a Drop: How Antony van Leeuwenhoek Discovered an Invisible World by Lori Alexander
Grades 3-52020
Just Like Rube Goldberg: The Incredible True Story of the Man Behind the Machines by Sarah Aronson
Grades 3-52020
Engineered!: Engineering Design at Work by Shannon Hunt
Grades 3-52020
Just Right: Searching for the Goldilocks Planet by Curtis Manley
Grades 3-52020
Something Rotten: A Fresh Look at Roadkill by Heather L. Montgomery
Grades 3-52020
Beavers (Superpower Field Guide) by Rachel Poliquin
Grades 3-52020
Moles (Superpower Field Guide) by Rachel Poliquin
Grades 3-52020
Ostriches (Superpower Field Guide) by Rachel Poliquin
Grades 3-52020
Yogi: The Life, Loves, and Language of Baseball Legend Yogi Berra by Barb Rosenstock
Grades 3-52020
Pass Go and Collect $200: The Real Story of How Monopoly Was Invented by Tanya Lee Stone
Grades 3-52020
Guts by Raina Telgemeier
Grades 3-52020
Soldier for Equality: José de la Luz Sáenz and the Great War by Duncan Tonatiuh
Grades 3-52020
Magic Ramen: The Story of Momofuku Ando by Andrea Wang
Grades 3-52020
A Ray of Light: A Book of Science and Wonder by Walter Wick
Grades 3-52020
A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation by Barry Wittenstein
Grades 3-52020
Fly With Me: A Celebration of Birds through Pictures, Poems, and Stories by Jane Yolen
Grades 3-52020
Path to the Stars: My Journey from Girl Scout to Rocket Scientist by Sylvia Acevedo
Grades 6-82020
O Captain, My Captain by Robert Burleigh
Grades 6-82020
The Tornado Scientist (Scientists in the Field Series) by Mary Kay Carson
Grades 6-82020
Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation by Ari Folman
Grades 6-82020
Spooked!: How a Radio Broadcast and The War of the Worlds Sparked the 1938 Invasion of America by Gail Jarrow
Grades 6-82020
Parkland Speaks: Survivors from Marjory Stoneman Douglas Share Their Stories by Sarah Lerner
Grades 6-82020
Funny, You Don't Look Autistic: A Comedian's Guide to Life on the Spectrum by Michael McCreary
Grades 6-82020
Killer Style: How Fashion Has Injured, Maimed, and Murdered Through History by Serah-Marie Mcmahon
Grades 6-82020
Proud (Young Readers Edition): Living My American Dream by Ibtihaj Muhammad
Grades 6-82020
Fighting for the Forest: How FDR's Civilian Conservation Corps Helped Save America by P. O’Connell Pearson
Grades 6-82020
1919 The Year That Changed America by Martin W. Sandler
Grades 6-82020
My Corner of the Ring by Jesselyn Silva
Grades 6-82020
Dear America: The Story of an Undocumented Citizen [Young Readers’ Edition] by Jose Antonio Vargas
Grades 6-82020
SHOUT by Laurie Halse Anderson
Grades 9-122020
Unpresidented: A Biography of Donald Trump by Martha Brockenbrough
Grades 9-122020
The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History: The Story of the Monuments Men (Scholastic Focus) by Robert M. Edsel
Grades 9-122020
Attucks!: Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team That Awakened a City by Phillip Hoose
Grades 9-122020
(Don't) Call Me Crazy by Kelly Jensen
Grades 9-122020
Grand Theft Horse by G. Neri
Grades 9-122020
The Stonewall Riots: Coming Out in the Streets by Gayle E Pitman
Grades 9-122020
Dreamland (YA edition): The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones
Grades 9-122020
They Called Us Enemy by George Takei
Grades 9-122020
Captured: An American Prisoner of War in North Vietnam (Scholastic Focus) by Alvin Townley
Grades 9-122020
An Inconvenient Alphabet: Ben Franklin & Noah Webster's Spelling Revolution by Beth Anderson
Grades K-22020
Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré by Anika Aldamuy Denise
Grades K-22020
Cute as an Axolotl: Discovering the World's Most Adorable Animals by Jess Keating
Grades K-22020
Starstruck: The Cosmic Journey of Neil deGrasse Tyson by Kathleen Krull
Grades K-22020
The Book Rescuer: How a Mensch from Massachusetts Saved Yiddish Literature for Generations to Come by Sue Macy
Grades K-22020
When Angels Sing: The Story of Rock Legend Carlos Santana by Michael Mahin
Grades K-22020
Free as a Bird: The Story of Malala by Lina Maslo
Grades K-22020
Dreamers by Yuyi Morales
Grades K-22020
The Eye That Never Sleeps: How Detective Pinkerton Saved President Lincoln by Marissa Moss
Grades K-22020
Karl's New Beak: 3-D Printing Builds a Bird a Better Life (Encounter: Narrative Nonfiction Picture Books With 4d) by Lela Nargi
Grades K-22020
Skulls! by Blair Thornburgh
Grades K-22020
Guitar Genius: How Les Paul Engineered the Solid-Body Electric Guitar and Rocked the World by Kim Tomsic
Grades K-22020
The Roots of Rap: 16 Bars on the 4 Pillars of Hip-Hop by Carole Boston Weatherford
Grades K-22020
A Green Place to Be: The Creation of Central Park by Ashley Benham Yazdani
Grades K-22020

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