The purpose of the Texas Topaz Reading List is to provide children, teens, and adults with recommended nonfiction titles that stimulate reading for pleasure and personal learning. It is intended for recreational reading and is not designed to support any particular curriculum.
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999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz Not Available at Helen Hall Library |
Gabo y Mercedes : una despedida SP 863.64 G215g 2021 (Spanish copy only) A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes: A Son's Memoir of Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha |
A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes 551.5520973 D664f 2020 |
A Human Algorithm: How Artificial Intelligence is Redefining Who We Are by Flynn Coleman 303.4834 C6921h 2019 |
Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-up, & Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House 973.924092 M1797b 2020 |
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Bee People and the Bugs They Love Not Available at Helen Hall Library |
Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice BIO SALAAM |
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted BIO JAOUAD |
Broken (In the Best Possible Way) BIO LAWSON |
Chasing the Thrill: Obsession, Death, Glory in America's Most Extraordinary Treasure Hunt 796.140973 B229c 2021 |
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Crying in H Mart: A Memoir BIO ZAUNER |
Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics |
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty |
Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth 976.403 B9721f 2021 |
Giannis: The Improbably Rise of an NBA MVP BIO ANTETOKOUNMPO |
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¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out iin a Walmart parking Lot and Other Life Lessons |
How Stella Learned to Talk: The Groundbreaking Story of the World's First Talking Dog 636.7 H9367h 2021 |
Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape Not Available at Helen Hall Library |
Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight BIO JOHNSON |
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night 919.8904 S212m 2021 |
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Me and Sister Bobbie: True Tales of the Family Band |
Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West |
Of Bears and Ballots: An Alaskan Adventure in Small-Town Politics Not Available at Helen Hall Library |
On Juneteenth 394.263 G6646j 2021 |
Out of Many, One: Portraits of America's Immigrants 757.6 B9781o 2021 |
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Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting 153.12 G335r 2021 |
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet 306 G7951a 2021 |
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War 940.544973 G543b 2021
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The Book Collectors: A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War 956.9104231 M6668b 2020 |
The Book of Rosy: A Mother's Story of Separation at the Border 362.87092 P112b 2020 |
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The Burning Blue: The Untold Story of Christa McAuliffe and NASA's Challenger Disaster 363.124 C7711b 2021 |
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper 364.152320820922 R895f 2019 |
The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice 305.8009766 E479g 2021 |
The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor BIO JAKU |
The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China 951.1320923924 K212L 2020 |
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The Loneliest Polar Bear: A True Story of Survival and Peril on the Edge of a Warming World 599.78609771 W7211L 2021 |
The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History 384.80979494 H7581q 2019 |
The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live Not Available at Helen Hall Library |
The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket Not Available at Helen Hall Library |
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together 305.800973 M4788s 2021 |
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The Ugly Cry: A Memoir BIO HENDERSON |
The Way I Heard It 818.602 R8781w 2019 |
The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear BIO PACKARD |
The Yellow House: A Memoir BIO BROOM |
This is Your Mind on Plants 581.6 P7715i 2021
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This Land is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving 974.400497348 S5875t 2019 |
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man 305.800973 A179u 2020 |
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts Not Available at Helen Hall Library |
What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing 616.8521 P4621w 2021 |
Wow, No Thank You: Essays 814.6 I653w 2020
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You Will Get Through This Night: A Practical Mental Health Guide 158 H8591y 2021 |
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by Jonathan Eig |
American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures by America Ferrerra |
American Wolf: a True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West by Nate Blakeslee |
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou |
Barracoon: the Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston |
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The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny by Michael Wallis |
Blood in the Water: the Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson |
Broad Band: the Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet by Clarie L. Evans |
Buttermilk Graffiti: a Chef's Journey to Discover America's New Melting-Pot by Edward Lee Not available at HHL |
The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: a True Story of Injustice in the American South by Radley Balko |
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The Captain Class: a New Theory on Leadership by Sam Walker |
by Tara Westover |
by Michael Summers |
by Jack Ewing |
A First-Class Catastrophe: the Road to Black Monday, the Worst Day in Wall Street History by Diana B. Henriques |
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The Color of Law: a Forgotten History of How Our Country Segregated America by Richard Rothstein Not available at HHL |
by Jennifer Ackerman |
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone by Richard Lloyd Parry Not available at HHL |
The Gift of Our Wounds: a Sikh and a Former White Supremacist Find Forgiveness After Hate by Arno Michaelis Not available at HHL |
by Michael W. Twitty |
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The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America by Ethan Michaeli Not available at HHL |
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: a Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine Wamariya |
God Save Texas: a Journey Into the Soul of the Lone Star State by Lawrence Wright |
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership by James Comey |
I Am I Am I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death by Maggie O'Farrell |
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Designing Your Life: How To Build a Well - Lived Joyful Life by Bill Burnett |
In a Different Key: the Story of Autism by John Donvan |
The Inheritance: A Family on the Front Lines of the Battle Against Alzheimer's Disease by Niki Kapsamelis Not available at HHL |
The Kings of Big Spring: God, Oil, and One Family’s Search for the American Dream by Bryan Mealer Not available at HHL |
by Hope Jahren |
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Last Hope Island: Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood That Helped Turn the Tide of War by Lynne Olson |
The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches From the Border by Francisco Cantu |
The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road by Finn Murphy Not available at HHL |
Megafire: The Race to Extinguish a Deadly Epidemic of Flame by Michael Kodas Not available at HHL |
Never Caught: the Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar |
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No One Tells You This: a Memoir by Glynnis MacNicol Not available at HHL |
The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy by Anna Clark Not available at HHL |
The Potlikker Papers: a Food History of the Modern South by John T. Edge |
The Radium Girls: the Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore |
Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece by Michael Benson |
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by Richard Munson |
Things That Make White People Uncomfortable by Michael Bennett |
Threading My Prayer Rug: One Woman's Journey From Pakistani Muslim to American Muslim by Sebeeha Rehman |
Thursday Night Lights: the Story of Black High School Football in Texas by Michael Hurd Not available at HHL |
Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality Sarah McBride Not available at HHL
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Women & Power: a Manifesto by Mary Beard Not available at HHL |
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson |
Barbarian Days: a Surfing Life by William Finnegan |
Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler |
by Anders Rydell |
The Bright Hour: a Memoir of Living and Dying by Nina Riggs |
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A Burglar's Guide to the City by Geoff Manaugh Not available at HHL |
Dear Ijeawele or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Ngozi Adichie |
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh |
The End of the Perfect 10: the Making and Breaking of Gymnastics' Top Score- From Nadia to Now by Dydra Meyers |
Everybody Behaves Badly: the True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises by Lesley M.M. Blume Not available at HHL |
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The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency by Chris Wipple Not available at HHL |
The Gulf: the Making of an American Sea by Jack E. Davis |
by Margot Lee Shetterly |
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate - Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben |
I Contain the Multitudes: the Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong |
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I'm Judging You: the Do-Better Manual by Luvvie Ajayi |
In Vino Duplicitas: the Rise and Fall of a Wine Forger Extraordinaire by Peter Hellman Not available at HHL |
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann |
Life Everlasting: the Extraordinary Story of One Boy's Gift to Medical Science by Sara Gray Not available at HHL |
The Lost City of the Monkey God: a True Story by Douglas J. Preston |
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The Marriage Bureau: the True Story of How Two Matchmakers Arranged Love in Wartime London by Penrose Halson Not available at HHL |
The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World's Favorite Boardgame by Mary Pilon Not available at HHL |
Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy by Sheryl Sandberg |
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam Grant |
Pit Bull: the Battle Over an American Icon by Bronwen Dickey Not available at HHL |
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Pumpkinflowers: a Soldier's Story of a Forgotten War by Matti Friedman Not available at HHL |
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn |
Spaceman: an Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe by Mike Massimino |
Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World by Aja Raden Not available at HHL |
Victoria the Queen: an Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Rules an Empire by Julia Baird |
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We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria by Wendy Pearlman Not available at HHL |
by Paul Kalanithi |
Word By Word: the by Kory Stamper |
Year of the Dunk: a Modest Defiance of Gravity by Asher Price Not available at HHL |
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: a Memoir by Sherman Alexie |
