Friday 1 January 2016

Read Harder Challenge 2016



And here we are with another year and another challenge list!  Courtesy of those kind people over at Book Riot here is a list of this year's very cunning Read Harder targets.  Lets see how we'll do this year!


  1. Read a horror book 
  2. Read a nonfiction book about science - Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated organ
  3. Read a collection of essays 
  4. Read a book out loud to someone else 
  5. Read a middle grade novel 
  6. Read a biography (not memoir or autobiography) 
  7. Read a dystopian or post-apocalyptic novel 
  8. Read a book originally published in the decade you were born - Post Office by Charles Bukowski
  9. Listen to an audiobook that has won an Audie Award 
  10. Read a book over 500 pages long 
  11. Read a book under 100 pages - A Case of Spirits by K J Charles
  12. Read a book by or about a person that identifies as transgender - All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
  13. Read a book that is set in the Middle East 
  14. Read a book that is by an author from Southeast Asia 
  15. Read a book of historical fiction set before 1900 - Ten Ways to be Adored When Landing a Lord by Sarah MacLean
  16. Read the first book in a series by a person of color 
  17. Read a non-superhero comic that debuted in the last three years - Rat Queens, Vol. 1: Sass and Sorcery by Kurtis J. Wiebe
  18. Read a book that was adapted into a movie, then watch the movie - High Rise by J G Ballard
  19. Read a nonfiction book about feminism or dealing with feminist themes - We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  20. Read a book about religion (fiction or nonfiction) 
  21. Read a book about politics, in your country or another (fiction or nonfiction) 
  22. Read a food memoir 
  23. Read a play 
  24. Read a book with a main character that has a mental illness - Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh

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