Read Harder Challenge

https://bookriot.com/2019/12/03/2020-read-harder-challenge/

https://bookriot.com/read-harder-2021/

Book Riot publishes a challenge to Read Harder. There are 24 books on the list that are designed to challenge you to read new genres, authors, and points of view.

January 1, 2021: The planned prompts have been updated to the 2021 list. Maybe this year will be better for reading. Harry Potter books listed in planned reading for 2020 has been moved to Complete Readings as I read the series twice in 2020. The remaining 2020 prompts were removed from the list.

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Complete Readings 2020

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Completed Readings 2021

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Planned Readings

Read a book you’ve been intimidated to read

Read a nonfiction book about anti-racism

Read a non-European novel in translation

Read an LGBTQ+ history book

Read a genre novel by an Indigenous, First Nations, or Native American author

Read a fanfic

Read a fat-positive romance

Read a romance by a trans or nonbinary author

Read a middle grade mystery

Read an SFF anthology edited by a person of color

Read a food memoir by an author of color

Read a work of investigative nonfiction by an author of color

Read a book with a cover you don’t like

Read a realistic YA book not set in the U.S., UK, or Canada

Read a memoir by a Latinx author

Read an own voices book about disability

Read an own voices YA book with a Black main character that isn’t about Black pain

Read a book by/about a non-Western world leader

Read a historical fiction with a POC or LGBTQ+ protagonist

Read a book of nature poems

Read a children’s book that centers a disabled character but not their disability

Read a book set in the Midwest

Read a book that demystifies a common mental illness

Read a book featuring a beloved pet where the pet doesn’t die