I've tracked my reading for years over at Goodreads. I'm pretty consistently reading 75ish books a year, but this year I was looking for something a little different. I want to read more books published in 2015, but I also want to broaden my horizons in other ways, too.
I just wasn't sure how.
Enter the Book Riot 2015 Read Harder Challenge. I think this is the thing I was looking for to take some risks and read some books that wouldn't have otherwise been on my radar.
Here's the list, for the click-averse:
- A book written by someone when they were under the age of 25
- A book written by someone when they were over the age of 65
- A collection of short stories (either by one person or an anthology by many people)
- A book published by an indie press
- A book by or about someone that identifies as LGBTQ
- A book by a person whose gender is different from your own
- A book that takes place in Asia
- A book by an author from Africa
- A book that is by or about someone from an indigenous culture (Native Americans,Aboriginals, etc.)
- A microhistory
- A YA novel
- A sci-fi novel
- A romance novel
- A National Book Award, Man Booker Prize or Pulitzer Prize winner from the last decade
- A book that is a retelling of a classic story (fairytale, Shakespearian play, classic novel, etc.)
- An audiobook
- A collection of poetry
- A book that someone else has recommended to you
- A book that was originally published in another language
- A graphic novel, a graphic memoir or a collection of comics of any kind (Hi, have you met Panels?)
- A book that you would consider a guilty pleasure (Read, and then realize that good entertainment is nothing to feel guilty over)
- A book published before 1850
- A book published this year
- A self-improvement book (can be traditionally or non-traditionally considered “self-improvement”)
They've created a Goodreads group for people participating in the challenge, too. I'm really, really excited to give this a whirl!
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