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Read Harder 2023: Pick a challenge from any of the previous years’ challenges to repeat!

Are you participating in the Read Harder challenge in 2023? Here are some books to start out with for task 24: Pick a challenge from any of the previous years’ challenges to repeat. There are many challenges that aren't listed, so if you'd like more books, please visit our Read Harder page (linked below). Remember that many titles come in multiple formats (eBook, print, audio). Happy Reading!

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  • Vampires Never Get Old

    Tales With Fresh Bite

    2022: Read an anthology featuring diverse voices
    Book, 2023New York : Square Fish, 2023. — 813.01087 V257 2023 TEEN
  • 2022: Read a romance where at least one of the protagonists is over 40
    eBook, 2021Karen Booth, 2021
  • 2022: Read a horror novel by a BIPOC author
    Book, 2016New York : Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2016. — Fiction Hillier
  • 2021: Read a middle grade mystery
    Book, 2020New York, NY : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020] — Fiction Marks CHILD
  • 2021: Read a memoir by a Latinx author
    Book, 2013New York : Atria Books, 2013. — 92 C33398b 2013
  • 2021: Read a fat-positive romance
    Book, 2022Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Casablanca, [2022] — Fiction Duke
  • 2020: Read a debut novel by a queer author
    Book, 2018New York, NY : Europa Editions, 2018. — Fiction Djavadi
  • 2020: Read a mystery where the victim(s) is not a woman
    Book, 2019New York : Pantheon Books, [2019] — Fiction Lalami
  • Barsk

    The Elephants' Graveyard

    Schoen, Lawrence M.
    2019: A book in which an animal or inanimate object is a point-of-view character
    eBook, 2024Tor Books, 2024
  • 2019: A novel by a trans or nonbinary author
    Book, 2018New York : One World, [2018] — Fiction Rosenberg
  • 2019: A cozy mystery
    Paperback, 2018New York, NY : St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2018. — Mystery Chien Pbk
  • 2019: A book by or about someone that identifies as neurodiverse
    Book, 2018New York : Berkley, 2018. — Fiction Hoang
  • 2018: A book of true crime
    Book, 2021Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2021. — 364.9791 W5878m 2021
  • 2018: A sci fi novel with a female protagonist by a female author
    Book, 2017New York, NY : G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 2017. — Fiction Lu TEEN
  • Lessons From Lute

    Reflections on Legendary Arizona Basketball Coach Lute Olson

    Rivera, Steve
    2017: Read a book about sports
    Book, 2022Chicago : Triumph Books, [2022] — 92 Ol86r 2022
  • 2017: Read a book wherein all point-of-view characters are people of color
    Book, 2017New York : Simon Pulse, 2017. — Fiction Menon TEEN
  • 2016: Read the first book in a series by a person of color
    Book, 2018New York, N.Y. : Kensington Books, 2018. — Mystery Clark
  • 2015: A book that is a retelling of a classic story (fairytale, Shakespearian play, classic novel, etc.)
    Book, 2020New York : Bloomsbury, 2020. — Fiction Bayron TEEN