Read Harder 2015
Book Riot's Read Harder campaign.
Book Riot has issued a Read Harder challenge, and I am taking it on. In addition to considering their BINGO card, here are some of my goals:
- >52 books: 65 (as of 10/16/15)
- >10 countries: U.S., UK, Japan, Canada, The Netherlands, Nigeria, Australia, Wales, France
- Re-read a book from high school: The Three Musketeers
- >3 non-fiction: The Empathy Exams, Let's Pretend This Never Happened
- Read more library books: Speak, Gospel of Winter, Safekeeping
- Blog about at least one in three books read
Book Riot Challenge
- Retelling:
- Guilty Pleasure: Tamora Pierce
- Audiobook: Yes, Please; Oryx & Crake; Let's Pretend This Never Happened
- Romance Novel: Just One Night, Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake; 10 Ways to Be Adored...
- Graphic Novel/Comic: East of West, Shoplifter, Sex Criminals, Alex + Ada, The Wicked + The Divine, The Manhattan Projects, Southern Bastards, Swallow Me Whole, Fun Home, Saga, Lumberjanes, Bee & Puppy Cat, The Fifth Beatle, Bitch Planet
- LGBTQ: Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Fun Home
- Author from Africa: The Icarus Girl (Helen Oyeyemi)
- Poetry:
- Author over 65: The Heart Goes Last (Atwood)
- Translated Book: Colorless Tsukuru
- Recommended Book: The Secret History
- Opposite Gender (easy)
- Self-Improvement Book:
- Pre-1850: The Three Musketeers (1844)
- Indie-Press Book: Luminarium (Soho), Salsa Nocturna (Crossed Genre)
- 2015: The Girl on the Train
- Sci-Fi Novel: The Book of Strange New Things, Oryx and Crake
- Award Winner: Swallow Me Whole (Eisner Award for Best Graphic Novel), Speak
- Indigenous Culture:
- Microhistory:
- Short Stories: Salsa Nocturna
- Set in Asia: Colorless Tsukuru, Dance Dance Dance
- YA Novel: 100 Sideways Miles; Eleanor & Park; Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock; Fangirl; Lioness Quartet; Immortals Quartet; Gospel of Winter; Speak
- Author under 25: The Icarus Girl (Helen Oyeyemi)