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