BAM Challengers have really been stepping up to the plate the last few months providing our challenges! This month’s challenge is provided by Linda Dyndiuk. Change is a fabulous theme that can be applied in so many different ways. Just examine some of Linda’s suggestions! I hope you have a lot of fun with this challenge. If you’re interested in providing next month’s, or any month’s challenge, e-mail me at bamchallenge{at}gmail.com.

  • Times of Change in History
    • 1776 by David McCullough
    • The Map that Changed the World by Simon Winchester
    • April 1865: The Month that Saved America by Jay Winik
    • Five Days in London: May 1940 by John Lukacs
    • 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents by David Pietrusza
    • The Boys from Dolores by Patrick Symmes
  • Climate Change
    • The Winds of Change: climate, weather, and the destruction of civilizations by Eugene Linden
    • The great warming: climate change and the rise and fall of civilizations by Brian Fagan
    • With speed and violence: why scientists fear tipping points in climate change by Fred Pearce
    • Field Notes from a Catastrophe: man, nature, and climate change by Elizabeth Kolbert
    • An Inconvenient Truth: the planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it by Al Gore
  • Memoirs of Change
    • She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan
    • Leaving Microsoft to change the world by John Wood
    • A Change of Heart: a memoir by Claire Sylvia
    • Drunk Divorced and Covered in Cat Hair by Laurie Perry
  • Novels of change
    • Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
    • The Breast by Philip Roth
    • Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult
    • Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
    • The Master Butcher’s Singing Club by Louise Erdrich
    • The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu
    • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Titles with the word “change”
    • Spare Change by Robert B. Parker
    • Step-ball-change by Jeanne Ray
    • Never Change by Elizabeth Berg
    • The Winds of Change and Other Stories by Isaac Asimov
    • A Sudden Change of Heart by Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • Change Your Life
    • Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: how a new science reveals our extraordinary potential to transform ourselves by Sharon Begley
    • Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life: living the wisdom of the Tao by Wayne Dyer
    • A Weekend to Change Your life: find your authentic self after a lifetime of being all things to all people by Joan Anderson
    • The Gift of Change: spiritual guidance for a radically new life
    • Do One Thing Different: ten simple ways to change your life by Bill O’Hanlon
    • Learned Optimism: how to change your mind and your life by Martin Seligman
    • What Color is Your Parachute?: A Practical Manual for job-hunters and career-changers by Richard Nelson Bolles
    • Colleges That Change Lives by Loren Pope
  • Change the World
    • It’s your world – if you don’t like it, change it: activisim for teenagers by Mikki Halpin
    • How to Change the World: social entrepreneurs and the power of new ideas by David Bornstein
    • Giving: how each of us can change the world by Bill Clinton
    • Writing to Change the World by Mary Pipher