2024 Build Your Library Challenge "Reading Through History" - hosted by brittburkard

About a turning point in history.
All books added
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek #1

Kim Michele Richardson

9 hours, 26 minutes • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction historical emotional medium-paced
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Couldn't Drive? by Allison Steinfeld, Dan Gutman

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Couldn't Drive?

Allison Steinfeld, Dan Gutman

1 hour, 9 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions) user-added

nonfiction informative lighthearted fast-paced
11/22/63 by Stephen King

11/22/63

Stephen King

30 hours, 37 minutes • first pub 2011 (editions)

fiction thriller adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson

The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

Walter Isaacson

536 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science reflective medium-paced
The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity by Nicholas Day

The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

Nicholas Day

4 hours, 54 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history middle grade true crime adventurous informative mysterious medium-paced
America's First Daughter by Laura Kamoie, Stephanie Dray

America's First Daughter

Laura Kamoie, Stephanie Dray

23 hours, 28 minutes • first pub 2016 (editions)

fiction historical challenging informative slow-paced
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Lessons in Chemistry

Bonnie Garmus

11 hours, 57 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction historical literary emotional funny inspiring medium-paced
Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall by Nina Willner

Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall

Nina Willner

416 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography historical memoir emotional informative reflective slow-paced
Shh! We're Writing the Constitution by Jean Fritz

Shh! We're Writing the Constitution

Jean Fritz

64 pages • first pub 1987 (editions)

nonfiction childrens history informative inspiring medium-paced
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

Timothy Egan

10 hours, 30 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging dark informative medium-paced