Here's what I read for the 2016 Read Harder Challenge. I am already looking forward to next year's challenge!!!
Read a nonfiction book about science: Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt
Read a collection of essays: Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls: A Handbook for Unapologetic Living by Jes Baker
Read a book out loud to someone else: Olivia by Ian Falconer (read to my husband, though I read books out loud at work pretty much every week at least)
Read a middle grade novel: It Ain't So Awful Falafel by Firoozeh Dumas (also so, so many others this year)
Read a biography (not memoir or autobiography): Jim Thorpe: Original All-American by Joseph Bruchac (also Some Writer: The Story of E.B. White by Melissa Sweet and Ten Days a Madwoman by Deborah Noyes and maybe more?)
Read a dystopian or post-apocalyptic novel: Plus One by Elizabeth Fama (also The Handmaid's Tale would fit here)
Read a book originally published in the decade you were born: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (1980s)
Listen to an audiobook that has won an Audie Award: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, narrated by Claire Danes (won the 2013 Audie for the Fiction category)
Read a book over 500 pages long: The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson (also Roots by Alex Haley and Well of Witches by J.A. White)
Read a book under 100 pages: We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Read a book by or about a person who identifies as transgender: Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Love, Identity and So Much More by Janet Mock (also If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo and Being Jazz by Jazz Jennings)
Read a book that is set in the Middle East: When the Moon is Low by Nadia Hashimi
Read a book that is by an author from Southeast Asia: In the Country: Stories by Mia Alvar (Philippines)
Read a book of historical fiction set before 1900: The Gilded Years by Karin Tanabe (also Roots by Alex Haley and The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich and maybe more?)
Read the first book in a series by a person of color: Spirit Week Showdown by Crystal Allen (also The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich and Make Way for Dyamonde Daniel by Nikki Grimes and maybe more?)
Read a non-superhero comic that debuted in the last three years: The Sculptor by Scott McCloud
Read a book that was adapted into a movie, then watch the movie. Debate which is better: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (I liked both, but I think I liked the book better)
Read a nonfiction book about feminism or dealing with feminist themes: The Rise of the Rocket Girls by Nathalia Holt
Read a book about religion (fiction or nonfiction): Ask Me How I Got Here by Christine Heppermann
Read a book about politics, in your country or another (fiction or nonfiction): Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
Read a food memoir: Love, Loss, and What We Ate by Padma Lakshmi
Read a play: Fences by August Wilson
Read a book with a main character that has a mental illness: When We Collided by Emery Lord (also History is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera and Under Rose-Tainted Skies by Louise Gornall)
