At the start of every year, I set a personal reading goal. For the past few years, it’s been 60.
Via Twitter, I discovered Book Riot’s Read Harder Challenge. While I make vague, unstructured attempts to broaden my reading subject matter each year, the focus has largely been on sheer volume of books read. I love the idea of taking more-specific steps to read different authors and subject matters this year.
The Challenge:
- 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
- A book published by an indie press
- A book by or about someone who identifies as LGBTQ
- A book my 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
- A microhistory
- A young-adult 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
- An audiobook
- A collection of poetry
- A book that someone else recommended to you
- A book that was originally published in another language
- A graphic novel
- A book you would consider a guilty pleasure
- A book published before 1850
- A book published this year
- A self-improvement book
Some of these will definitely be easier than others (I’m currently reading a book about 17th Century Japan and I love self-help books). I’ve never read a graphic novel. I’m excited to try this!
I’ll check in on my progress in June and then again at the end of 2015.
Theresa says
I like the idea of doing that instead of the GoodReads challenge (which I broke up with this year, as it was stressing me out).
Happy to provide recommendations on quite a few of these — just ask away!
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