Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge discussion

Is anyone going to attempt the Goodreads Summer Reading Challenge!? Anywhere that you can get crossovers with the BR list!?

https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/1...

Zoe wrote: "Is anyone going to attempt the Goodreads Summer Reading Challenge!? Anywhere that you can get crossovers with the BR list!?

So many challenges, so little time!

I bet there's quite a bit of crossover--do we need a new thread to garner suggestions?

If you find one I would love to see it :)

The Goodreads summer challenge to read a debut novel could double-dip with the Read Harder challenge for books with fewer than 100 reviews &/or a self-published book.

And for the summer challenge for "Armchair Traveler" one could pick an #ownvoices work set in either Oceania or Mexico, which are two of the Read Harder tasks.

Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, making it fit the new voices/debut fiction section of the Goodreads Summer Reading challenge, & task #3 of the Read Harder challenge: A book by a woman and/or AOC (Author of Color) that won a literary award in 2018.

I've found quite a few!

For the 'Genre You've Never Read Before' I'm reading Sailor Moon, Vol. 1 which is for the Manga challenge on Read Harder, and also covers Asia for Continental drift.

The Color Purple for 'Read a book with a number or color in the title' is my pick for 'A historical romance by an AOC' (although the 'Primary' part annoys me because Purple is not a Primary Colour!) Also covers North America for Continental drift.

For 'An #ownvoices book set in Oceania' I chose Carpentaria which is both Australasia/Oceania for Continental Drift and 'Read a book set in a different culture from your own' - most of these should work for you unless that's the culture you're from!

The Martian is an epistolary novel and was recommended to me by a friend.

An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew is a translated book so good for the summer challenge and the translated book written by and/or translated by a woman for RH. This was one of the free Kindle books being given out for world book day. Also ticks off Europe for me.

Zoe wrote: "I've found quite a few!

For the 'Genre You've Never Read Before' I'm reading Sailor Moon, Vol. 1 which is for the Manga challenge on Read Harder, and also covers Asia for Continental..."

The Color Purple is many things, but it most definitely is not a romance.

Bonnie G. wrote: "The Color Purple is many things, but it most definitely is not a romance. ..."

The Color Purple is not romance. Kindred is not romance. I recommend checking out Silvia Moreno-Garcia's twitter feed from January for some good rants on white people trying to shoehorn the few black writers they know into the category of "romance".

Here is a website (also courtesy of Moreno-Garcia's twitter) that is entirely dedicated to romances by writers of color. You can pick your category, including "historical".

http://www.wocinromance.com

Whitney wrote: "Bonnie G. wrote: "The Color Purple is many things, but it most definitely is not a romance. ..."

The Color Purple is not romance. Kindred is not romance. I recommend checking out Silvia Moreno-Gar..."

I usually follow the Goodreads categorizations that appear for each book when I use the app on my phone as a guide.

For historical romance by a writer of color, IMO you can't go wrong with Beverly Jenkins! She does have a book named Indigo which would fit historical romance by AOC for readharder and the color title for summer challenge.

Lynn wrote: "Whitney wrote: "Bonnie G. wrote: "The Color Purple is many things, but it most definitely is not a romance. ..."

The Color Purple is not romance. Kindred is not romance. I recommend checking out S..."

I have zero idea what constitutes romance since it's not a genre I read nor is it a book I know anything about...was going along with the 92 people who shelved it as such...

Karin wrote: "For historical romance by a writer of color, IMO you can't go wrong with Beverly Jenkins! She does have a book named Indigo which would fit historical romance by AOC for readharder an..."

Thanks for the recommendation!

Mya wrote: "Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, making it fit the new voices/debut fiction section of the Goodreads Summer Reading ..."

This post is great! Thanks for these recommendations. Just got myself Carpentaria.

For a translated book / short & sweet from the summer challenge I picked Convenience Store Woman originally written in Japanese by Sayaka Muraka and translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori (two women).