Over the past couple of years I've always started by never finished BookRiot's Read Harder Challenge. I always start with the best of intentions, but life gets in the way. This year, I want to make it a priority to finish this challenge. Below, I've included my current plan for completing the challenge. It's just plan at this point, but I'll keep you all updated on my progress and provide reviews throughout the year. This is a link to the original post published by BookRiot, so check out their 2021 challenge there and their previous year's challenges as well. BookRiot 2021 Read Harder Challenge
If anyone has any other books that might fit these task requirements, please share them in the comments below.
Task 1: Read a book you've been intimidated to read - Ulysses, James Joyce
Task 2: Read a nonfiction book about anti-racism - White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism, Robin DiAngelo
Task 3: Read a non-European novel in translation - The Vegetarian, Han Kang (translator - Deborah Smith)
Task 4: Read an LGBTQ+ history book - Bisexuality in the Ancient World, Eva Cantarella (translator - Coram O Cuilleanain)
Task 5: Read a genre novel by an Indigenous, First Nations or Native American author - The Plague of Doves, Louise Erdrich
Task 6: Read a FanFic - What's Real, SlightlyKylie
Task 7: Read a fat positive romance - Spoiler Alert, Olivia Dade
Task 8: Read a romance by a trans or nonbinary author - Peter Darling, Austin Chant
Task 9: Read a middle grade mystery - The Parker Inheritance, Varian Johnson
Task 10: Read a Sci-Fi/Fantasy anthology edited by a person of color - Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with a Fresh Bite, Natalie C. Parker, Zoraida Cordova
Task 11: Read a food memoir by an author of color - The Cooking Gene: A Journey through African America Culinary History in the Old South, Michael W. Twitty
Task 12: Read a work of investigative nonfiction by an author of color - The Spy Who Couldn't Spell, Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
Task 13: Read a book with a cover you don't like - Curses, Boiled Again!, Shari Randall
Task 14: Read a realistic YA book not set in the U.S., UK, or Canada - I Love You So Mochi, Sarah Kuhn
Task 15: Read a memoir by a Latinx author - Children of the Land, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Task 16: Read an OwnVoices book about disability - On the Edge of Gone, Corinne Duyvis
Task 17: Read an OwnVoices YA book with a Black main character that isn't about Black pain - Pride, Ibi Zoboi
Task 18: Read a book by/about a non-Western World Leader - Nefertiti, Michelle Moran
Task 19: Read a Historical fiction with a POC or LGBTQ+ protagonist - The Shadow King, Maaza Mengiste
Task 20: Read a book of nature poems - Poems for a Small Planet: Contemporary American Nature Poetry, Jay Parini
Task 21: Read a children's book that isn't about disability that includes a main character with a disability - Song for a Whale, Lynne Kelly
Task 22: Read a book set in the midwest - Ghosts of Kansas, Beth Cooper
Task 23: Read a book that demystifies a common mental illness - Anxious People, Fredrik Backman
Task 24: Read a book featuring a beloved pet where the pet doesn't die - Smokey Mountain Tracks, Donna Bell
As a disclaimer, these a books that I haven't read yet and have identified as potentially meeting the requirements of the task. Should the book not meet the requirements of the task upon completion of my read, I won't count it towards my completion of the challenge.
