The 2016 Read Harder Challenge List
(annotated where I've read books in the relevant category in January 2016)
- Read a horror book
- Read a nonfiction book about science
- Read a collection of essays
Baptism of Fire: The Birth of the Modern British Fantastic in World War I, ed. Janet Brennan Croft
Perilous and Fair: Women in the Works and Life of J. R. R. Tolkien, eds. Janet Brennan Croft and Leslie A. Donovan - Read a book aloud to someone else
- Read a middle grade novel [ie aimed at 8-12]
- Read a biography (not memoir or autobiography)
- Read a dystopian and post-apocalyptic novel
Streetlethal, by Steven Barnes - Read a book originally published in decade you were born [the 1960s]
- Listen to an audiobook that has won an Audie Award
- Read a book over 500 pages long
No Official Umbrella, by Glyn Jones (710) - Read a book under 100 pages
The Story of Ireland, by Brendan O'Brien (96)
Flatland, by Edwin A. Abbott (96)
Rupert Wong, Cannibal Chef, by Cassandra Khaw (95)
A Day In Deep Freeze, by Lisa Shapter (74)
Bételgeuse v 3: L'Expédition, by Leo (48) - Read a book by or about a person that identifies as transgender
- Read a book that is set in the Middle East
- Read a book that is by an author from Southeast Asia
Rupert Wong, Cannibal Chef, by Cassandra Khaw (from Malaysia)
Sorcerer to the Crown, by Zen Cho (also from Malaysia) - Read a book of historical fiction set before 1900
- Read the first book in a series by a person of colour
again, Streetlethal, by Steven Barnes
again, Sorcerer to the Crown, by Zen Cho - Read a non-superhero comic that debuted in the last three years
I think Saga counts? Though perhaps the spirit of the challenge is to find a new one.Thanks to
drplokta for clarification. - Read a book that was adapted into a movie, then watch the movie and discuss which is better
- Read a nonfiction book about feminism or dealing with feminist themes
again, Perilous and Fair: Women in the Works and Life of J. R. R. Tolkien, eds. Janet Brennan Croft and Leslie A. Donovan - Read a book about religion (fiction or nonfiction
possibly Jews vs Aliens, ed. Lavie Tidhar and Rebecca Levene - Read a book about politics, in your country or another (fiction or nonfiction)
- Read a food memoir
- Read a play
- Read a book with a main character with a mental illness
