Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge discussion

Here's the list of 24 tasks for the 2017 Read Harder Challenge. You can download and edit this form here, too, for your records: https://2982-presscdn-29-70-pagely.ne...


1) A book published posthumously

2) A book of true crime

3) A classic of genre fiction (i.e. mystery, sci fi/fantasy, romance)

4) A comic written and illustrated by the same person

5) A book set in or about one of the five BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, or South Africa)

6) A book about nature

7) A western

8) A comic written or illustrated by a person of color

9) A book of colonial or postcolonial literature

10) A romance novel by or about a person of color

11) A children’s classic published before 1980

12) A celebrity memoir

13) An Oprah Book Club selection

14) A book of social science

15) A one-sitting book

16) The first book in a new-to-you YA or middle grade series

17) A sci fi novel with a female protagonist by a female author

18) A comic that isn’t published by Marvel, DC, or Image

19) A book of genre fiction in translation

20) A book with a cover you hate

21) A mystery by a person of color or LGBTQ+ author

22) An essay anthology

23) A book with a female protagonist over the age of 60

24) An assigned book you hated (or never finished)

Posted elsewhere, but posting here in case MOD's didn't see it.....
Question for the Book Riot challenge powers-that-be---For the 2018 challenge...4, 8, 18...Are we strictly looking for comics or was that meant to be interchangeable with graphic novels too?

Cheryl wrote: "Posted elsewhere, but posting here in case MOD's didn't see it.....
Question for the Book Riot challenge powers-that-be---For the 2018 challenge...4, 8, 18...Are we strictly looking for comics or w..."

That's an excellent question. I think I'm going to interpret it as including graphic novels bc I'm 100% uninterested in comics

Cheryl wrote: "Posted elsewhere, but posting here in case MOD's didn't see it.....
Question for the Book Riot challenge powers-that-be---For the 2018 challenge...4, 8, 18...Are we strictly looking for comics or w..."

I feel like this was discussed for 2017 topics and concluded that if the prompt said comic that both comics and graphic novels count, but if it said graphic novels, comics don’t count.

I’m not excited about 3 comic categories:(. I just don’t enjoy them.

I asked the question re: comics/graphic novels and was told that Book Riot considers all sequential art to count as “comics”! So go ahead with all those graphic novels. :)

Brandyn wrote: "Cheryl wrote: "Posted elsewhere, but posting here in case MOD's didn't see it.....
Question for the Book Riot challenge powers-that-be---For the 2018 challenge...4, 8, 18...Are we strictly looking ..."

I agree. I have zero interest in reading comics.

Chessa wrote: "I asked the question re: comics/graphic novels and was told that Book Riot considers all sequential art to count as “comics”! So go ahead with all those graphic novels. :)"

YEAH!!