2015 Book Riot Read Harder Challenge

I'm a sucker for challenges, particularly those involving lists or books. Generally they end up half finished at the end of the year, but I have a lot of fun trying, so I thought this year I would go ahead and pledge my commitment to the Book Riot Read Harder challenge. This challenge in particular caught my eye since it's focused on encouraging diversity in reading.

The challenge itself is pretty open ended, so I'm setting a couple of additional rules for myself. To start I'm counting one book for one task, unless the book is over 500 pages and fits in two different subcategories (e.g. genre and author, i.e. a scifi novel written by an African author). I've also added a couple of extra tasks: a book by a disabled author or about a disabled character, a nonfiction book, a book from my TBR bookshelf, and a TBR ebook. I've also divided up the National Book Award, Man Booker Prize or Pulitzer Prize winner from the last decade task into three separate tasks which gives me a total of 30 tasks.

I'll be updating this post with books as I read them. I'll also link any relevant reviews as I go along.

AUTHORS AND CHARACTERS
Author Age <25
Author Age >65
By LGBTQ Author/About LGBTQ Character Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Jeanette Winterson)
Nonfemale Author
African Author
By/About Indigenous person
Set in Asia How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (Mohsin Hamid)
Translated Book The Girl Who Played with Fire (Steig Larsson)
By Disabled Author/About Disabled Character The Silkworm (Robert Galbraith)

PUBLISHING
Published before 1850 Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Published in 2015
Indie Publisher

MEDIUM/FORMAT
Short Stories
Audiobook The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Neil Gaiman)
Poetry
Graphic Novel/Comics

GENRE
YA Novel The Wee Free Men (Terry Pratchett)
SciFi Novel Warm Bodies (Issac Marion)
Romance Novel The Summer King (Alaya Dawn Johnson)
Microhistory
Guilty Pleasure Paper Towns (John Green)
Self Improvement
Nonfiction Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960-2010

ACCLAIM
National Book Award Winner
Man Booker Winner
Pultzer Prize Winner
Recommended book

MISCELLANEOUS
Retelling a Classic
TBR Book
TBR Ebook

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