I really want to grow as a reader this year. I toyed with doing the PopSugar 2015 reading challenge, but there are a lot of categories in that challenge and honestly two/thirds of them are not challenging. Then Elizabeth mentioned the Read Harder Challenge from Book Riot. After looking over the categories it seemed like the perfect fit. I few are gimmies, a few are a stretch, and several are really outside my comfort zone.
There’s also a Goodreads group for this challenge and it’s helpful if you need help find examples for a certain category. IE – Which books were written when authors were under 25 or over 65.
Here are the Categories – I’ve arranged by level of challenge.
A book by or about someone that identifies as LGBTQ
A book by a person whose gender is different from your own
A YA novel
A romance novel
An audiobook
A book that someone else has recommended to you
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 this year
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 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 sci-fi novel
A book that is a retelling of a classic story (fairytale, Shakespearian play, classic novel, etc.)
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 microhistory
A National Book Award, Man Booker Prize or Pulitzer Prize winner from the last decade
A collection of poetry
A book published before 1850
A self-improvement book (can be traditionally or non-traditionally considered “self-improvement”)
