2023 Reading Challenge
Challenge yourself by reading books you wouldn’t normally check out.
Find all of these exciting reads in the NED Library and explore the diversity of the DRC collection.
Historical Page Turners (Historical Fiction)
Beauty is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan and Annie Tucker
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Don’t Judge a Book by It’s Cover (but that’s what we did for these)
Liars: Falsehoods and Free Speech in an Age of Deception by Cass R Sunstein
Coding Democracy: How Hackers are Disrupting Power, Surveillance, and Authoritarianism by Maureen Webb
Some Award Winning Books
- NY Times Best Seller – Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy by Francis Fukuyama
- 2004 Pulitzer Prize Winner – Gulag: a History by Anne Applebaum
Would it be NED without these? (NED Classics)
Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics by Seymour Martin Lipset
Democracy: A Reader by Larry Jay Diamond, Marc F Plattner
Learn Through Their Eyes (Autobiography/Biography)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Conversation with Myself by Nelson Mandela
Reads That Will Keep You at the Edge of Your Seat (Mystery)
A Corpse in the Koryo by James Church
The Fourth Protocol by Frederick Forsyth
Women in the World (Women’s Rights and Activism)
- Women’s Atlas by Joni Seager
- Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
Get Lost in Words (Poetry)
- Shattering Stereotypes: Muslim Women Speak Out by Fawzia Afzal-Khan
- Motherfield: Poems and Belarusian Protest Diary by I︠U︡li︠a︡ Tsimafeeva, Valzhyna Mort, Hanif Abdurraqib
Inspirational Storytellers (Essays and Speeches)
- No Enemies No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems by Liu Xiaobo
- Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde, Cheryl Clarke
Lets Take a Moment to Think (About Philosophy)
- The Republic by Plato, H D P Lee
- My Correct Views on Everything by Leszek Kołakowski, Zbigniew Janowski
Religion and Deep Thought (Religion)
- The Souls of China: The Return of Religion after Mao by Ian Johnson
- The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong
Diversity and Inclusion Reads (DEI)
- Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F Saad
- Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea J Ritchie
Picture Perfect Publications (Graphic Novel)
Accidental Czar: The Life and Lies of Vladimir Putin by Andrew S Weiss, Box Brown
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi, Gerald Peary, Gerald Peary Collection
Why do People Revolt? (Books about Revolution)
Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism by Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way
On Revolution by Hannah Arendt
Lets Get Organized (Books about Labor)
The Polish Revolution: Solidarity by Timothy Garton Ash
The Cambridge Handbook of Labor and Democracy by Angela B Cornell, Mark Barenberg
What it Means to be Corrupt (Books about Corruption)
Very Bad People: The Inside Story of the Fight Against the World’s Network of Corruption by Patrick Alley, George Soros
Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security by Sarah Chayes
Need Help? (How to…)
How to Rig an Election by Nic Cheeseman, Brian P Klaas
How to Win an Election: An Ancient Guide for Modern Politicians by Quintus Tullius Cicero, Philip Freeman, Louis Claude Purser
A Light Read (Children’s Book)
Duck for President by Doreen Cronin, Betsy Lewin, Dan Potash
Our Oldest Book (Published in 1910)
Twenty Years at Hull-House by Jane Addams, Cairns Collection of American Women Writers
Our Newest Book
The Library is always adding new books to the collection!
