We all know by now that there’s no way I’m going to complete any reading challenges this year, except maybe for my Goodreads goal. But that’s no reason to ignore them completely – if I even manage to tick off two or three of the challenges from this list this year I’ll call it a win!
- An epistolary novel or collection of letters – An American Marriage by Tayari Jones is partly epistolary
- An alternate history novel
- A book by a woman and/or AOC (Author of Color) that won a literary award in 2018 – Locking Up Our Own by James Forman Jr. (Pulitzer Prize)
- A humor book – Birds, Beasts and Relatives by Gerald Durrell
- A book by a journalist or about journalism – Brain On Fire by Susannah Cahalan
- A book by an AOC set in or about space
- An #ownvoices book set in Mexico or Central America
- An #ownvoices book set in Oceania
- A book published prior to January 1, 2019, with fewer than 100 reviews on Goodreads
- A translated book written by and/or translated by a woman
- A book of manga
- A book in which an animal or inanimate object is a point-of-view character
- A book by or about someone that identifies as neurodiverse – Possibly My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward by Mark Lukach (not too sure on the definition of “neurodiverse”)
- A cozy mystery
- A book of mythology or folklore – Circe by Madeline Miller and The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
- An historical romance by an AOC
- A business book
- A novel by a trans or nonbinary author
- A book of nonviolent true crime
- A book written in prison
- A comic by an LGBTQIA creator
- A children’s or middle grade book (not YA) that has won a diversity award since 2009
- A self-published book
- A collection of poetry published since 2014
Let me know if any of you are participating in this year’s Read Harder Challenge – either hitting one or two of the prompts or aiming for a full challenge win!
Check out the original post with more info about this year’s challenge on the Book Riot site here.