NPR Nonfiction Eye-Opening reads of 2022

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Challenge Books

1

We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys by Erin Kimmerle

We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys

Erin Kimmerle

2

Acceptance: A Memoir by Emi Nietfeld

Acceptance: A Memoir

Emi Nietfeld

3

The Trayvon Generation by Elizabeth Alexander

The Trayvon Generation

Elizabeth Alexander

4

By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners by Margaret A. Burnham

By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners

Margaret A. Burnham

5

Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop by Danyel Smith

Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop

Danyel Smith

6

The Family Outing by Jessi Hempel

The Family Outing

Jessi Hempel

7

What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe

What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

What If? #2

Randall Munroe

8

The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward by Daniel H. Pink

The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward

Daniel H. Pink

9

Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus by David Quammen

Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus

David Quammen

10

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

Stephanie Foo

11

Walking the Bowl: A True Story of Murder and Survival Among the Street Children of Lusaka by Chris Lockhart, Daniel Mulilo Chama

Walking the Bowl: A True Story of Murder and Survival Among the Street Children of Lusaka

Chris Lockhart, Daniel Mulilo Chama

12

Mothercare: On Obligation, Love, Death, and Ambivalence by Lynne Tillman

Mothercare: On Obligation, Love, Death, and Ambivalence

Lynne Tillman