Book Riot’s Read Harder Challenge 2017

As an avid reader with a large stack of books to read, I find a reading challenge to be a great way to help prioritize that stack and read books that I might not otherwise read.

This year I took on Book Riot’s Read Harder Challenge 2017. I managed to complete all 24 categories in about half the year.

Cover	Title	Author	My Rating	Category
	The Mountain: My Time on Everest	Viesturs, Ed		1. Book about sports
	Lola	Love, Melissa Scrivner		2. Debut novel
	Fangirl	Rowell, Rainbow		3. Book about books
	One Hundred Years of Solitude	Garcí­a Márquez, Gabriel		4. Book set in Central or South America, written by a Central or South American author
	Behold the Dreamers	Mbue, Imbolo		5. Book by an immigrant or with a central immigration narrative
	March	Lewis, John Robert		6. All-ages comic
	The Call of the Wild	London, Jack		7. Book published between 1900 and 1950
	Wind, Sand and Stars	Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de		8. Travel memoir
	Of Mice and Men	Steinbeck, John		9. Read a book you’ve read before
	The Last Policeman (Last Policeman, #1)	Winters, Ben H.		10. Book that is set within 100 miles of your location
	The Winter Over	Iden, Matthew		11. Book that is set more than 5000 miles from your location
	The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)	Jemisin, N.K.		12. Fantasy novel
	Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race	Shetterly, Margot Lee		13. Nonfiction book about technology
	The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914	Clark, Christopher Munro		14. Book about war
	George	Gino, Alex		15. YA or middle grade novel by an author who identifies as LGBTQ+
	Animal Farm	Orwell, George		16. Book that has been banned
	Invisible Man	Ellison, Ralph		17. Classic by an author of color
	Thor, Volume 1: The Goddess of Thunder	Aaron, Jason		18. Superhero comic with a female lead
	Underground Airlines	Winters, Ben H.		19. Book in which a character of color goes on a spiritual journey
	Carry On	Rowell, Rainbow		20. LGBTQ+ romance novel
	Holy Spokes: The Search for Urban Spirituality on Two Wheels	Everett, Laura		21. Book published by a micropress.
	Thunderstruck & Other Stories	McCracken, Elizabeth		22. Collection of stories by a woman
	For the Living and the Dead: Poems and a Memoir	Tranströmer, Tomas	No rating	23. Collection of poetry in translation on a theme other than love
	Lagoon	Okorafor, Nnedi		24. Book wherein all point-of-view characters are people of color