Omaha Public Library Reading Challenge 2024 - hosted by bergeny

Read a book by, about, or featuring a 20th century icon.
All books added
To Boldly Go: How Nichelle Nichols and Star Trek Helped Advance Civil Rights by Angela Dalton

To Boldly Go: How Nichelle Nichols and Star Trek Helped Advance Civil Rights

Angela Dalton

40 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction biography childrens history race hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced
Death on the River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Amazon Adventure by Samantha Seiple

Death on the River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Amazon Adventure

Samantha Seiple

3 hours, 20 minutes • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction biography history adventurous informative inspiring fast-paced
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

The Woman in Me

Britney Spears

277 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction memoir music emotional reflective sad fast-paced
After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz

After Sappho

Selby Wynn Schwartz

6 hours, 43 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction historical lgbtqia+ literary challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis

Finding Me: A Memoir

Viola Davis

9 hours, 15 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography memoir emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

Nancy Isenberg

496 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history politics sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Georgia O'Keeffe by María Herreros

Georgia O'Keeffe

María Herreros

128 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction art biography medium-paced
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times by Jane Goodall

The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

Jane Goodall

272 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction nature emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Pastures of the Empty Page: Fellow Writers on the Life and Legacy of Larry McMurtry by George Getschow, George Getschow

Pastures of the Empty Page: Fellow Writers on the Life and Legacy of Larry McMurtry

George Getschow, George Getschow

272 pages • missing pub info (editions)

reflective medium-paced
Half Life by Jillian Cantor

Half Life

Jillian Cantor

416 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction historical informative inspiring reflective medium-paced