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Welcome to the third annual Read Harder Challenge! After months of brainstorming, they've put together a list of wide-ranging tasks that designed to help you to find more books and genres and authors and characters to fall in love with.
New this year, they have recruited six of their favorite authors to contribute to this year’s challenge: Daniel José Older, Sarah MacLean, Roxane Gay, Celeste Ng, Ausma Zehanat Khan, and Jacqueline Koyanagi! The list consists of 24 challenges, averaging out to two per month. You may count one book for multiple tasks, or read one book per task. Some of our staff members have decided to take on the challenge and we invite you to join us! And remember: "We encourage you to push yourself, to take advantage of this challenge as a way to explore topics or formats or genres that you otherwise wouldn’t try. But this isn’t a test. No one is keeping score and there are no points to post. We like books because they allow us to see the world from a new perspective, and sometimes we all need help to even know which perspectives to try out. That’s what this is – a perspective shift – but one for which you’ll only be accountable to yourself." |
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Community Reads: |
Dan
Currently Reading:
Read: 5. Read a book by an immigrant or with a central immigration narrative: Wind vs Polygamy, by Obi Egbuna 6. Read an all-ages comic: Spongebob Comics #1: Silly Sea Stories, by Stephen Hillenburg 11. Read a book that is set more than 5000 miles from your location: War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy 12. Read a fantasy novel: Dinosaur Lords, by Victor Milan 13. Read a nonfiction book about technology: Eruption, The Untold Story of Mt. St. Helens, by Steve Olson 18. Read a superhero comic with a female lead: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Long Way Home #1, by Joss Whedon 19. Read a book in chich a character of color goes on a spiritual journey: Memoir of Venerable Pierre Toussaint, by Pierre Toussaint 24. Read a book where all points-of-view characters are people of color: Khirbet Khizeh, by S. Yihzar |
Miles
Currently Reading:
Read: 7. Read a book published between 1900 and 1950: The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu, by Sax Rohmer 11. Read a book that is set more than 5000 miles from your location: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, by Haruki Murakami 13. Read a nonfiction book about technology: Track Changes, by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum 17. Read a classic by an author of color: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, by Frederick Douglass 18. Read a superhero comic with a female lead: Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal, by G. Willow Wilson |
Stephanie
Currently Reading:
Read: 2. Read a debut novel: The Devourers, by Indra Das 4. Read a book set in Central or South America, written by a Central or South American author: Dust on Her Tongue, by Rodrigo Rey Rosa (Paul Bowles, trans.) 5. Read a book by an immigrant or with a central immigration narrative: Behold the Dreamers, by Imbolo Mbue 6. Read an all-ages comic: Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat, by Bill Watterson 8. Read a travel memoir: The Humorless Ladies of Border Control, by Franz Nicolay 10. Read a book that is set within 100 miles of your location: The Ballad of Black Tom, by Victor LaValle 12. Read a fantasy novel: Grave Peril, by Jim Butcher 13. Read a nonfiction book about technology: The Four-Dimensional Human, by Laurence Scott 14. Read a book about war: In Our Strange Garden, by Michel Quint (Barbara Bray, trans.) 15. Read a YA or middle grade novel by an author who identifies as LGBTQ+: If I Was Your Girl, by Meredith Russo 21. Read a book published by a micropress: Complex, Vol. 1: Ways of Life, by Michael Malkin 22. Read a collection of stories by a woman: Women Fly When Men Aren't Looking, by Sara Maitland |
