ZSR's Summer Reading Challenge 2021 (Wake Forest University) - hosted by tidybookshelf

A book by/about a non-Western world leader
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I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai

I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

Malala Yousafzai

374 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction feminism memoir emotional informative inspiring medium-paced
Gandhi an Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mahatma Gandhi

Gandhi an Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

Mahatma Gandhi

528 pages • first pub 1927 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography history informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt by Kara Cooney

The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt

Kara Cooney

320 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
Empress by Shan Sa

Empress

Shan Sa

352 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

fiction historical challenging informative slow-paced
This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

315 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir informative reflective slow-paced
The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by Desmond Tutu, Dalai Lama XIV, Douglas Carlton Abrams

The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

Desmond Tutu, Dalai Lama XIV, Douglas Carlton Abrams

354 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy self help informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt by Kara Cooney

When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt

Kara Cooney

400 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative inspiring slow-paced
Daughter Of Destiny: An Autobiography by Benazir Bhutto

Daughter Of Destiny: An Autobiography

Benazir Bhutto

411 pages • first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction biography politics emotional informative slow-paced
Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang, Jon Halliday

Mao: The Unknown Story

Jung Chang, Jon Halliday

801 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction biography history dark emotional informative slow-paced
Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela

Long Walk to Freedom

Long Walk to Freedom #1-2

Nelson Mandela

656 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography history challenging inspiring reflective slow-paced
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