http://bookriot.com/2016/12/15/book-riots-2017-read-harder-challenge/

• ✔ Read a book about sports.
  • Warcross by Marie Lu
  • Crossover by Kwame Alexander
• ✔ Read a debut novel.
  • This Wide Night by Sarvat Hasin
  • Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
  • The Mothers by Brit Bennett
  • When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon
• ✔ Read a book about books.
  • Possession by A.S. Byatt
  • The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
• ✔ Read a book set in Central or South America, written by a Central or South American author.
  • In the Country We Love: My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero
• ✔ Read a book by an immigrant or with a central immigration narrative.
  • The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla
  • In the Country We Love: My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero and Michelle Burford - backup
• ✔ Read an all-ages comic.
  • Lumberjanes, Vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy by Noelle Stevenson
  • Runaways vol. 1: Pride & Joy
  • Runaways vol. 2: Teenage Wasteland
  • Runaways vol. 3: The Good Die Young
  • Runaways vol. 4: True Believers
• ✔ Read a book published between 1900 and 1950.
  • Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
  • The Blue Castle by Lucy Maud Montgomery
• ✔ Read a travel memoir.
  • My Life in France by Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme
  • On the Noodle Road: From Beijing to Rome, with Love and Pasta by Jen Lin-Liu
• ✔ Read a book you’ve read before.
  • The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
  • The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket
  • The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket
  • The Miserable Mill by Lemony Snicket
  • The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner - reading!
  • Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins by Emma Donoghue - reading!
• ✔ Read a book that is set within 100 miles of your location.
  • Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
• ✔ Read a book that is set more than 5000 miles from your location.
  • The Vegetarian by Han Kang
  • Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
  • Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
• ✔ Read a fantasy novel.
  • Thick as Thieves by Megan Whalen Turner
  • The House of Binding Thorns by Aliette de Bodard
  • The Lost Kingdom of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine
  • La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman - reading!
  • Furthermore by Tahereh Mafi
• ✔ Read a nonfiction book about technology.
  • Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari & Eric Klinenberg
  • Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything by Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith
  • How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Space Flight by Julian Guthrie
  • Vibrator Nation: How Feminist Sex-Toy Stores Changed the Business of Pleasure by Lynn Comella
• ✔ Read a book about war.
  • Lost Stars (Star Wars: Journey to The Force Awakens) by Claudia Gray
  • First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung
  • Girl at War by Sara Nović
• ✔ Read a YA or middle grade novel by an author who identifies as LGBTQ+.
  • The Inexplicable Logic of My Life by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
  • The Lotterys Plus One by Emma Donoghue
• ✔ Read a book that has been banned or frequently challenged in your country.
  • Saga – Volume Seven by Brian K. Vaughn
• ✔ Read a classic by an author of color.
  • The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• ✔ Read a superhero comic with a female lead.
  • Silk, Volume 0: The Life and Times of Cindy Moon by Robbie Thompson
  • Silk, Volume 1: Sinister by Robbie Thompson
  • Silk, Volume 2: The Negative by Robbie Thompson
  • Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal by G. Wilson Willow
• ✔ Read a book in which a character of color goes on a spiritual journey (From Daniel José Older, author of Salsa Nocturna, the Bone Street Rumba urban fantasy series, and YA novel Shadowshaper)
  • Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older
  • Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
  • Boxers by Gene Luen Yang
• ✔ Read an LGBTQ+ romance novel (From Sarah MacLean, author of ten bestselling historical romance novels)
  • Her Name in the Sky by Kelly Quindlen
  • Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel by Sara Farizan
• ✔ Read a book published by a micropress. (From Roxane Gay, bestselling author of Ayiti, An Untamed State, Bad Feminist, Marvel’s World of Wakanda, and the forthcoming Hunger and Difficult Women)
  • This is a Dance Movie! by Tim Jones-Yelvington
  • So You Know It's Me by Brian Oliu
• ✔ Read a collection of stories by a woman. (From Celeste Ng, author Everything I Never Told You and the forthcoming Little Fires Everywhere)
  • Difficult Women by Roxane Gay
  • We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby
  • A Bestiary by Lily Hoang
• ✔ Read a collection of poetry in translation on a theme other than love. (From Ausma Zehanat Khan, author of the Esa Khattak/Rachel Getty mystery series, including The Unquiet Dead, The Language of Secrets, and the forthcoming Among the Ruins)
  • Sin: Selected Poems by Forough Farrokhzad
• ✔ Read a book wherein all point-of-view characters are people of color. (From Jacqueline Koyanagi, author of sci-fi novel Ascension)
  • Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi - backup
  • The Mothers by Brit Bennett
  • When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon
  • Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
  • The Wangs vs. the World by Jade Chang - reading!

Books I have read this year that aren't listed above:

• one match by jy chung
• bloodline (star wars) by claudia gray
• shingeki no kyojin #22
• carve the mark by veronica roth
• binti by nnedi okorafor
• binti: home by nnedi okorafor
• shingeki no kyojin #23
• the stone sky by n.k. jemisin
• monstress, vol. 2: the blood by marjorie liu & sana takeda
• the hedge knight: the graphic novel by george r.r. martin
• black panther 2 & 3, world of wakanda

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my notes:

You need to finish: The Wangs vs. the World by Jade Chang We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby

You need to read: The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla