Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge discussion

I am so so late to this! But, to be fair to myself, I didn't know it was a thing until a few days ago. But now...I'M SO EXCITED! I'm gonna have to double up on stuff, especially since there are so many I'd like to read. Worth it.

1. A book published posthumously:
2. A book of true crime:
3. A classic of genre fiction:
4. A comic written and illustrated by the same person:
5. A book set in or about one of the 5 BRICS countries:
6. A book about nature:
7. A western:
8. A comic written or illustrated by a person of color:
9. A book of colonial or postcolonial literature:
10. A romance novel by or about a person of color:
11. A children's classic published before 1980:
12. A celebrity memoir:
13. An Oprah book club selection:
14. A book of social science:

15. A one-sitting book: I wasn't sure how to pick a one sitting book without having already read it...so I picked what I thought could be a one sitting book?
16. First book in a new-to-you YA or MG series:
17. A SF novel with a female protagonist written by a female author:
18. A comic that isn't published by Marvel, DC, or image:
19. A book of genre fiction in translation:
20. A book with a cover you hate:
21. A mystery by a person of color of LGBTQIA+ person:
22. An essay anthology:
23. A book with a female protagonist over the age of 60:

24. An assigned book you hated (or never finished): I didn't hate it, but when I read it I listened to the audiobook and I was not at all in the mood for assigned reading...so I hope I'll get more out of it by reading it myself


Is anyone else reading any of these? Or have read them?

"Bad Feminist" is going to be my essay anthology too.

I'm not using it for #24, as I finished it and anyway it wasn't an assigned book, but I sure found "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" hard work!

Hello! First of all, welcome! It's really not that late to be joining in.

A few of this are on my TBR list and others sound really interesting.

I think you may want to check the thread for task 22 because Book Riot is saying the anthology must be by several authors.

Greetings!

Judith wrote: ""Bad Feminist" is going to be my essay anthology too.

I'm not using it for #24, as I finished it and anyway it wasn't an assigned book, but I sure found "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" hard..."
I'm excited to read BAD FEMINIST! Oh no...I'm gonna give it a shot at reading it instead of listening to it, because I was not paying any attention to the audiobook. Hopefully, I'll like it more!

I think you may want to check the thread for task 22 because Book Riot is saying the anthology must be by several authors...."

Does it? Oh bother.

Satrina wrote: "Hello! First of all, welcome! It's really not that late to be joining in.

A few of this are on my TBR list and others sound really interesting.

I think you may want to check the thread for task 2..."
Hi :)
Oh! Thank you! I will take a look and maybe just add one. I thought it could just be any collection of essays.

I just found a few essay anthologies that seem interesting (to me at least!) and would work instead!

Amanda (abookishinvasion) wrote: "I thought it could just be any collection of essays."

I thought so too, that's why Bad Feminist was one of my picks for that task and later had to change it :( I'll still read it later though.

Untangling the Knot sounds really interesting, I already added it to my TBR list

Satrina wrote: "Amanda (abookishinvasion) wrote: "I thought it could just be any collection of essays."

I thought so too, that's why Bad Feminist was one of my picks for that task and later had to change it :( I'..."
I want to try to read it this year (especially since I already ordered it from book depository lmao).
But thanks for making me aware of that! I'm glad because Untangling the Knot sounds super interesting to me too! And I wouldn't have known about it!

Don't worry about the late start. My first year (2016) I started in August and still really enjoyed it and finished (I had already read books that ended up fitting the prompts before officially starting.) Enjoy!

I started late last year and finished it in time. Good luck!

Carolina wrote: "I started late last year and finished it in time. Good luck!"

Bonnie wrote: "Don't worry about the late start. My first year (2016) I started in August and still really enjoyed it and finished (I had already read books that ended up fitting the prompts before officially sta..."

Thank y'all <3
I'm excited to do it! I just want it to help me broaden my reading over anything else :)

Lots of great choices here. Homegoing is a beautiful debut novel.
The Gabourney Sidibe memoir is cute and funny (just like her :) ). And White Rage is excellent--I literally just finished it a couple days ago.

I picked Bad Feminist as my essay read as well...oops. But still going to read it.

Ellen wrote: "Lots of great choices here. Homegoing is a beautiful debut novel.
The Gabourney Sidibe memoir is cute and funny (just like her :) ). And White Rage is excellent--I literally just finished it a coup..."

Oh, and if you can find Trevor Noah's "Born a Crime" in audiobook, it's even better listening to him read his own work.

Ellen wrote: "Ellen wrote: "Lots of great choices here. Homegoing is a beautiful debut novel.
The Gabourney Sidibe memoir is cute and funny (just like her :) ). And White Rage is excellent--I literally just fini..."

I'm so excited! Homegoing has been on my tbr for so long and I've heard nothing but amazing things. That's probably one of the ones on the top of my list to get to soon.
Oh, that makes me happy that you liked her memoir. I'm not always great at memoirs, especially since reading A HEARTBREAKING WORK OF STAGGERING GENIUS last year...that kind of turned me off to them! But her's looks like it will be so real and fun.
I've heard that about Trevor Noah's book! I have the audiobook from audible so definitely starting that one soon!

Mercedes wrote: "I think it terribly funny how we get excited about a book challenge. I was thrilled when I bumped into Book Riot's and I mean like, heart palpitations and everything!
Welcome!"

Right! Reading challenges are the best!

Awesome info in this thread. Thanks everyone! I’m new to challenges. I’m diving into this one and Modern Mrs. Darcy’s to get my serious reading game on this year. (Serious as in read a ton.) Also, I’m maria514626 on Litsy.

Maria wrote: "Awesome info in this thread. Thanks everyone! I’m new to challenges. I’m diving into this one and Modern Mrs. Darcy’s to get my serious reading game on this year. (Serious as in read a ton.) Also, ..."

What is Modern Mrs. Darcy's?!
YAY! I always try at challenges, but somewhere during the year I fall off. Lmao. Hopefully not this time.

I am also doing MMD, but trying to double dip between this challenge and that one a little (for example, my Oprah read was also my 500+ pages read).

Robin wrote: "I am also doing MMD, but trying to double dip between this challenge and that one a little (for example, my Oprah read was also my 500+ pages read)."

I need to find out what this MMD is!

MMD is Modern Mrs Darcy, who is Anne Bogel. She’s had a lifestyle/Reading blog for many years. She has a podcast called What to Read Next and recently published a book, Reading People: How Seeing the World through the Lens of Personality Changes Everything.

A large part of the blog and the podcast are about books. She has a reading challenge every year similar to BR where the goal is to try to get people to try something new.

JoLene wrote: "MMD is Modern Mrs Darcy, who is Anne Bogel. She’s had a lifestyle/Reading blog for many years. She has a podcast called What to Read Next and recently published a book, [book:Reading People: How Se..."

Oh! Sounds amazing. I'm going to have to look into it! Thank you :)