Another year, another Book Riot Read Harder challenge! This is the first time I've broken tradition and haven't waited three years to do the challenge.
I'll post my 2023 list (and my previous lists, I made pages for them but never posted, oops), but for this I wanted to try to help people who might be struggling with the final task, which is to pick a task from any of the previous year's lists to repeat. What this post is going to be is picking a favorite task from each of the previous year's challenges and post a recommendation or two for that task (if the task is from one of the years I personally made a list for: 2015, 2018, or 2021 there will be two recommendations since I'll also list the book I read for that task).
I won't pick a task that is extremely broad (like how in 2015 there were tasks that were just like "Listen to an audiobook" or "Read a book published before 1850), I won't pick a task that overlaps with any of the other 23 tasks for this year, and I'll only pick a task if I finished the book I had picked for it that year (I've always made a full list every year, but I have yet to read all 24 books).
Without further ado, here we go! (Titles will link to their Goodreads pages)
I'll post my 2023 list (and my previous lists, I made pages for them but never posted, oops), but for this I wanted to try to help people who might be struggling with the final task, which is to pick a task from any of the previous year's lists to repeat. What this post is going to be is picking a favorite task from each of the previous year's challenges and post a recommendation or two for that task (if the task is from one of the years I personally made a list for: 2015, 2018, or 2021 there will be two recommendations since I'll also list the book I read for that task).
I won't pick a task that is extremely broad (like how in 2015 there were tasks that were just like "Listen to an audiobook" or "Read a book published before 1850), I won't pick a task that overlaps with any of the other 23 tasks for this year, and I'll only pick a task if I finished the book I had picked for it that year (I've always made a full list every year, but I have yet to read all 24 books).
Without further ado, here we go! (Titles will link to their Goodreads pages)
- 2015: Read a microhistory. (The task I chose to do for this year)
- Recommendation 1: Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America by Jeff Ryan
- Recommendation 2: Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle by Claire Hunter
- 2016: Read a book that was adapted into a movie, then watch the movie. Debate which is better.
- Recommendation: Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause (I have a vague recollection of possibly reading this in middle school or high school, too)
- 2017: Read a nonfiction book about technology. (I have an MIS, it would be remiss of me not to choose this task!)
- 2018: Read a classic of genre fiction.
- Recommendation 1: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Recommendation 2: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- 2019: An epistolary novel or collection of letters.
- Recommendation: Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn
- 2020: Read a picture book with a human main character from a marginalized community.
- Recommendation: Maiden & Princess by Daniel Haack and Isabel Galupo
- 2021: Read a middle grade mystery (Second recommendation is one I actually read as a child.. at least I think I did!)
- Recommendation 1: Nikki Tesla and the Ferret-Proof Death Ray by Jess Keating
- Recommendation 2: Stacey and the Mystery at the Mall by Ann M. Martin
- 2022: Read a book whose movie or TV adaptation you’ve seen (but haven’t read the book).