Read Harder Challenge 2026
last updated: June 22, 2026
Completed: 20/24
- Microhistory
📗 Tea: The Drink that Changed the World by Laura C. Martin 🇺🇸 - Featured on a “best book covers” list
🤔 I deliver parcels in Bejing by Hu Anyan 🇨🇳 - YA by a Latine author
🎧 With the Fire on High by (& read by) Elizabeth Acevedo 🇺🇸 🇩🇴 - MC who uses they/them pronouns
📱 Sing Anyway by Anita Kelly 🇺🇸 - Nonfic about resistance
📗 WAKE: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Dr. Rebecca Hall, illustrated by Hugo Martinez 🇺🇸 - Gothic novel published in last 10 years
📗 Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 - Sports book by a woman, trans, or NB writer
📗 You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian 🇺🇸 - Classic from Zero to Well-Read Podcast
📗 Forever… by Judy Blume 🇺🇸 - Romantasy with a queer and/or BIPOC mc
🤔 tbd, probably from my sister’s recs! - Book recently adapted for film/TV/musical
📱 The Long Game by Rachel Reid 🇨🇦 - By a d/Deaf author
📗 Give Me a Sign by Anna Sortino 🇺🇸 - Try a recipe from a cookbook about a culture whose food you’ve never eaten
📗 The Iraqi Cookbook by Lamees Ibrahim 🇮🇶 - Nonfic comic
📗 Armed with Madness: The Surreal Leonora Carrington by Mary M & Brian Talbot - Magical realism or fabulism
📗 Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link 🇬🇧 - By a librarian
📗 How Can I Help You by Laura Sims 🇺🇸 - Queer picture book
📗 Julián is a Mermaid by Jessica Love 🇺🇸 - About a cult or cults
🎧 Cultish by Amanda Montell, narrated by Ann Marie Gideon 🇺🇸 - By an intersex author
📱 Nobody Needs to Know by Pidgeon Pagonis 🇺🇸 - Nonfic about AI or social media
📱 Algospeak by Adam Aleksic 🇺🇸 🇷🇸 - Set in space
📗 To Be Taught if Fortunate by Becky Chambers 🇺🇸 - Genre book in translation
🤔 I could count Apothecary Diaries - Nonviolent true crime
📗 Cryptomania by Andrew R. Chow 🇺🇸 - By an African author
📗 a fire like you by Upile Chisala 🇲🇼 - Repeat previous challenge: 2025 nonfic about nature
🎧 Field Study by Helen Humphreys 🇨🇦