Even though I said I wasn’t going to do any book challenges this year, I have been tracking progress against Book Riot’s 2016 Read Harder Challenge, a list of 24 reading tasks to be completed in 2016.
I’m still trying to find a good way to keep track of the tasks and which book I plan to read for each. I created a new Goodreads shelf, and I’m thinking about printing out a copy of their form. But, for now, I’ll just re-post the list of tasks below along with the book I selected for each. Bold means I’ve completed that task (6 done so far), and blue means it’s on my TBR for July.
Below is the list for 2016 (book selections are in parenthesis):
- Read a horror book (Slade House)
- Read a nonfiction book about science (Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves)
- Read a collection of essays (The Empathy Exams)
- Read a book out loud to someone else (Information Doesn’t Want to be Free)
- Read a middle grade novel (The School for Good and Evil)
- Read a biography, not a memoir, or an autobiography –> Kingpin
- Read a dystopian or post apocalyptic novel (The Harvest)
- Read a book originally published in the decade you were born (To Ride Pegasus <–technically a re-read, but I’d intended to re-read it anyway)
- Listen to an audio book that won an Audie Award –>Yes Please
- Read a book over 500 pages long –> A Court of Mist and Fury
- Read a book under 100 pages –> Binti
- Read a book by or about a person who identifies as transgender (George)
- Read a book that is set in the Middle East (Escape From Baghdad!)
- Read a book by an author from Southeast Asia (The Ghost Bride)
- Read a book of historical fiction set before 1900 (Hild)
- Read the first book in a series by a person of color (the first book of The Inheritance Trilogy)
- Read a non-superhero comic that debuted in the past three years –> Bitch Planet
- Read a book that was adapted into a movie, then watch the movie (The 5th Wave)
- Read a non-fiction book about feminism or dealing with feminist themes –> Lean In
- Read a book about religion, fiction or non-fiction (No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam)
- Read a book about politics in your country or another, fiction or non-fiction (maybe Our Kids or North Korea Confidential)
- Read a food memoir (An Embarrassment of Mangos)
- Read a play (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child)
- Read a book with a main character who has a mental illness (The Boy Who Went Away)
Is anyone else participating in Book Riot’s Read Harder Challenge this year? If so, what are you reading?
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