Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge discussion

it's my first time here. I'm from Italy. could you please help me to find a book for Task 1? cos' we don't have these books so soon (2025!), probably some of them we'll never have. I have to find them in the kindle version. thank you

You could read a book that comes out in 2025 in Italy. You don't have to go by US publishing dates.

thanks. I haven't thought it

Hey I am from Europe, too. I would also appreciate some tips maybe about indigenous authors that are currently publishing. I mostly read classics in school and would love something new .

Another helpful hint: You don't have to read the books in a particular order. If you want to read prompt 20 today, 7 next week and 15 after that, then read them in that order. You're not obligated to go chronological. Read what you want when it suits you.

The prompts are flexible that way.

Miri__ wrote: "Hey I am from Europe, too. I would also appreciate some tips maybe about indigenous authors that are currently publishing. I mostly read classics in school and would love something new ."

Mostly if you Google 'books by Indigenous authors,' you'll find tons of lists to get you started. For nearly all of my 'odd' prompts-- books by X, or about Y--it's Google to the rescue.

As for indigenous authors.... If you're a print book reader of mostly classics, I'd recommend an author like Louise Erdrich from the Ojibwe tribe of the US. As a frequent prize winner (including the Pulitzer), her print books are more likely to be available overseas, whereas some lesser-known Indigenous authors, like Leslie SIlko or Eric Gansworth (a double boon as a YA indigenous author!), may be more difficult for you to find in print form.

Some other literary novelists who have had major US bestsellers and whose books are likely to be on bookstore shelves in Europe, Australia or New Zealand:

Sherman Alexie
Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Tommy Orange
Morgan Talty

Some NA non-fiction bestsellers that a good bookstore near you will probably have:

David Treuer - The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
Robin Kimmerer - Braiding Sweetgrass

Native American poetry can be the biggest challenge to find overseas, but former US poet laureate Joy Harjo might be the exception. I'd guess 'A Map of the World' or 'Crazy Brave' might be among those in a European or Antipodean bookstore.

Hope this helps.

Hello Aquaria, I know how to Google, but I thought this place here is also about talking ;)

Thank you for the kind Suggestions! I will look around and get a bit information on them and then Look out. I am off tomorrow, so I will also go to our lokal library. We are a University City with a huge literature institute. So I will look there, too.
:)

Hey, can someone please let me know if Agustina Bazterrica is a BIPOC author? Thank you!