2017 Read Harder Challenge

Looking forward to doing better this year!  Can't believe it's already a new year with new resolutions (lose weight, as always) and a new challenge!  The one challenge I actually completed was the Goodreads "how many books will you read".  I challenged myself to read 200 and I read definitely over that amount.

For the entire rules of the challenge, visit here.

Like I did for 2016, I will pick the books I will attempt to read for the 2017 challenge.

Again, I will most likely end up picking 2 books for each challenge (in case I fail at one of them LOL)

Here are the challenges:
1) Read a book about sports.

• Summer in the City by Elizabeth Chandler (I know this one is a romance but...it talks about sports so...)
• Breathless by Jessica Warman

2) Read a debut novel.

• This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp 
• The Love That Split the World by Emily Henry

3) Read a book about books.

• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (I'm actually surprised that I haven't read this book since I watched the movie a while back)

4) Read a book set in Central or South America, written by a Central or South American author.

• Without Borders (Wanderlove #1) by Amanda Heger

5) Read a book by an immigrant or with a central immigration narrative.

• Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok (I'd actually been trying to read this book for the past few months but I can't find it at my library or online so I'm not sure where I can even get a copy of this one...)
• Girl at War by Sara Nović

6) Read an all-ages comic.

• Friends With Boys by Faith Erin Hicks (this will be hard since I barely read comics...)

7) Read a book published between 1900 and 1950.

• Crooked House by Agatha Christie

8) Read a travel memoir.

• Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

9) Read a book you've read before.

• Skin Trade (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #17) by Laurell K. Hamilton 

10) Read a book that is set within 100 miles of your location.

• The Diviners (The Diviners #1) by Libba Bray
• All These Things I've Done (Birthright #1) by Gabrielle Zevin
• The Girl in the Steel Corset (Steampunk Chronicles #1) by Kady Cross

11) Read a book that is set more than 5000 miles from your location.

• Genesis by Bernard Beckett (not entirely sure if this is set in Australia/NZ but since this was in the list of Australian books...and the author is in NZ so hoping for the best lol)
• Pink by Lili Wilkinson

12) Read a fantasy novel.

• A Need So Beautiful (A Need So Beautiful #1) by Suzanne Young
• The Dead and Buried by Kim Harrington

13) Read a nonfiction book about technology.

• The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly
• Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neil

14) Read a book about war.

• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (actually had this on the 2016 challenge too but didn't even get to it)
• Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys

15) Read a YA or middle grade novel by an author who identifies as LGBTQ+.

• Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour
• Every Day (Every Day #1) by David Levithan

16) Read a book that has been banned or frequently challenged in your country.

• Just One Day (Just One Day #1) by Gayle Forman (didn't realize that this was a challenged/banned book but according to ALA it is)

17) Read a classic by an author of color.

• Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang

18) Read a superhero comic with a female lead.

• Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson

19) Read a book in which a character of color goes on a spiritual journey.

• The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo
• Prophecy (The Dragon King Chronicles #1) by Ellen Oh
• Dust Girl (The American Fairy #1) by Sarah Zettel

20) Read an LGBTQ+ romance novel.

• Pink by Lili Wilkinson
• Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst
• Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

21) Read a book published by a micropress.

• Bad Sex by Clancy Martin

22) Read a collection of stories by a woman.

• Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

23) Read a collection of poetry in translation on a theme other than love.

• Tangled Hair: Selected Tanka from Midaregami by Akiko Yosano

24) Read a book wherein all point-of-view characters are people of color.

• Outrun the Moon by Stacey Lee
• Lucy and Linh by Alice Pung
• Something in Between by Melissa de la Cruz