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60 Hey, did you cognize it’s December? Because it is. The past period of different twelvemonth snuck up connected america erstwhile we weren’t looking and you cognize what that means: it’s clip to denote our adjacent Read Harder Challenge! 2023 volition beryllium our ninth twelvemonth hosting Read Harder and we’ve had a batch of amusive coming up with different batch of tasks. If you’re a Read Harder regular, it’s large to spot you again! If this is your archetypal clip joining us, invited to the challenge.
Now onto the situation deets: it erstwhile again consists of 24 tasks (an mean of 2 per month) that invitation readers to research settings, characters, formats, genres, and perspectives that mightiness beryllium extracurricular of their speechmaking norms. How you attack Read Harder is up to you: you mightiness take to work 1 publication per task, oregon provender a fewer birds with 1 scone and number 1 publication for aggregate tasks. The constituent of the situation isn’t to bash the happening 1 circumstantial way, but alternatively to to propulsion yourself extracurricular of your comfortableness zone. We anticipation you’ll clasp yourself accountable, stock your insights, and observe immoderate fantastic reads you mightiness not person different chosen for yourself. And remember: person amusive with it! No 1 from Book Riot is going to amusement up astatine your doorway and cheque your work, promise.
Need suggestions for the tasks? Say less. All you request to bash is sign up for our Read Harder newsletter to get recommendations for each task delivered consecutive to your inbox. Look for those task recommendations starting the archetypal week successful January; we’ll nonstop 1 email per weekday for each of the 24 tasks.
If you privation to articulation a assemblage of chap situation participants, stock your situation progress, and get adjacent much suggestions for tasks, marque definite to check retired the Read Harder Challenge Goodreads group. It’s a large spot to bent out, sermon the tasks, and speech recs and reviews for titles that acceptable the measure for those tasks. You tin besides usage the #ReadHarder hashtag each implicit societal media and articulation successful connected the treatment there.
Click present for a downloadable and editable PDF of the 2023 Read Harder Challenge tasks. Now let’s get to the tasks!
Read Harder 2023
- Read a caller astir a trans quality written by a trans author.
- Read 1 of your favourite author’s favourite books.
- Read a publication astir activism.
- Read a publication that’s been challenged precocious successful your schoolhouse district/library OR work 1 of the most-challenged/banned books of the twelvemonth by a queer and/or BIPOC author.
- Read a completed webcomic.
- Finish a publication you’ve DNFed (did not finish).
- Listen to an audiobook performed by a idiosyncratic of colour of a publication written by an writer of color.
- Read a graphic novel/comic/manga if you haven’t before; oregon work 1 that is simply a antithetic genre than you usually read.
- Read an independently published publication by a BIPOC author.
- Read a publication you cognize thing astir based solely connected the cover.
- Read a cookbook screen to cover.
- Read a nonfiction publication astir BIPOC and/or queer history.
- Read an writer section to you.
- Read a publication with nether 500 Goodreads ratings.
- Read a humanities fabrication publication acceptable successful an Eastern country.
- Read a romance with bisexual representation.
- Read a YA publication by an Indigenous author.
- Read a comic oregon graphic caller that features disablement representation.
- Read a nonfiction publication astir intersectional feminism.
- Read a publication of poesy by a BIPOC oregon queer author.
- Read a publication of abbreviated stories.
- Read immoderate publication from the Ignyte awards shortlist/longlist/winner list.
- Read a societal horror, mystery, oregon thriller novel.
- Pick a situation from any of the erstwhile years’ challenges to repeat!
Good luck and blessed reading!
