The Book Riot 2015 Read Harder Challenge Accepted

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To read more diverse books, and to help me decide on what to read next, I decided to join The Book Riot 2015 Read Harder Challenge. I will keep track of my progress and the books that I will read in this post. Here is the list of the tasks. I plan to do two per month, book club discussion books not included.

1. A book written by someone when they were under the age of 25
   • It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
2. A book written by someone when they were over the age of 65
   • Death with Interruptions by José Saramago
3. A collection of short stories (either by one person or an anthology by many people)
   • CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders
4. A book published by an indie press
   • Angelfall by Susan Ee
5. A book by or about someone that identifies as LGBTQ
   • The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
6. A book by a person whose gender is different from your own
   • Drown by Junot Díaz
7. A book that takes place in Asia
   • It’s a Mens World by Bebang Siy
8. A book by an author from Africa
   • Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
9. A book that is by or about someone from an indigenous culture (Native Americans, Aboriginals, etc.)
   • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
10. A microhistory
    • Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel
11. A YA novel
    • Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
12. A sci-fi novel
    • A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
13. A romance novel
    • Where Rainbows End (Love, Rosie) by Cecelia Ahern
14. A National Book Award, Man Booker Prize or Pulitzer Prize winner from the last decade
    • The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
15. A book that is a retelling of a classic story (fairytale, Shakespearian play, classic novel, etc.)
    • Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson
16. An audiobook
    • The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
17. A collection of poetry
    • No Matter the Wreckage by Sarah Kay
18. A book that someone else has recommended to you
    • Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
19. A book that was originally published in another language
    • Cain by José Saramago
20. A graphic novel, a graphic memoir or a collection of comics of any kind (Hi, have you met Panels?)
    • The Mythology Class: A Graphic Novel by Arnold Arre
21. A book that you would consider a guilty pleasure (Read, and then realize that good entertainment is nothing to feel guilty over)
    • The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
22. A book published before 1850
    • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
23. A book published this year
    • The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
24. A self-improvement book (can be traditionally or non-traditionally considered “self-improvement”)
    • The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubin

Interesting list, right? I am accepting book recommendations (and gifts. Haha!) for this. Or you can join the challenge with me. 🙂