2022 reading challenges part 2

 Book Riot Read Harder Challenge 2022
Finished 12/28/2022

• Read a biography of an author you admire
• Gather Together in My Name by Maya Angelou
• Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Ibi Zoboi
• Read a book set in a bookstore
• We Are Inevitable by Gayle Forman
• The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman
• Good Night Little Bookstore by Amy Cherrix & E.B. Goodale
• Read any book from the Women's Prize shortlist/longlist/winner list
• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
• Read a book in any genre by a POC that's about joy and not trauma
• Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory
• Right Where I Left You by Julian Winters
• Read an anthology featuring diverse voices
• Every Body Shines edited by Cassandra Newbould
• Kink: Stories edited by R.O. Kwon & Garth Greenwell
• You Don't Have to Be Everything edited by Diana Whitney
• Power & Magic: The Queer Witch Comics Anthology Volume 2 edited by Joamette Gil
• Lightspeed: Women Destroy Science Fiction! edited by Christie Yant
• Power & Magic: The Queer Witch Comics Anthology Volume 1 edited by Joamette Gil
• Heartwood: Non-binary Tales of Sylvan Fantasy edited by Joamette Gil
• Read a nonfiction YA comic
• Good Girls Don't Make History by Elizabeth Kiehner, Kara Coyle, Michaela Dawn, & Mary Sanche
• Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Graphic Novel by Cynthia Levinson, Sanford Levinson, & Ally Shwed
• The Black Panther Party by David F. Walker & Marcus Kwame Alexander
• We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration by Frank Abe, Tamiko Nimura, Ross Ishikawa, & Matt Sosaki
• Read a romance where at least one of the protagonists is over 40
• Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory
• Read a classic written by a POC
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• Read the book that's been on your TBR the longest
• Crafting the Body Divine by Yasmine Galenorn
• Read a political thriller by a marginalized author (BIPOC or LGBTQUIA+)
• While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams
• Read a book with an asexual and/or aromantic main character
• The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
• A-Okay by Jarad Greene
• Loveless by Alice Oseman
• Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
• Read an entire poetry collection
• The Complete Poems of Sappho translated by Willis Barnstone
• Read an adventure story by a BIPOC author
• Noor by Nnedi Okorafor
• Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova
• A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger
• Read a book whose movie or TV adaptation you've seen (but haven't read the book)
• The Duke and I by Julia Quinn
• Read a new-to-you literary magazine (print or digital)
• Lightspeed: Women Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue (June 2014, Issue 49) edited by Christie Yant
• Read a book recommended by a friend with different reading tastes
• Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
• The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
• Read a memoir written by someone who is trans or nonbinary
• Over the Top by Jonathan Van Ness
• Love That Story by Jonathan Van Ness
• Read a "Best ___ Writing of the Year" book for a topic and year of your choice
• The Best American Food Writing 2021 edited by Gabrielle Hamilton
• Read a horror novel by a BIPOC author
• The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
• Fledgling by Octavia Butler
• Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• The Changeling by Victor LaValle
• Read an award-winning book from the year you were born
• The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin (Hugo Award)
• Read a queer retelling of a class of the canon, fairytale, folklore, or myth
• The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
• Beast by Brie Spangler
• Lost in the Never Woods by Adien Thomas
• Peter Darling by Austin Chant
• A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow
• A Mirror Mended by Alix E. Harrow
• Cinderelliot: A Scrumptious Fairytale by Mark Ceilley, Rachel Smoka-Robinson, & Stephanie Laberis
• Read a history about a period you know little about
• The Black Panther Party by David F. Walker & Marcus Kwame Alexander
• Sakamoto's Swim Club: How a Teacher Led an Unlikely Team to Victory by Julie Abery & Chris Sasaki
• Grace Banker and Her Hello Girls Answer the Call: The Heroic Story of WWI Telephone Operators by Claudia Friddell & Elizabeth Baddeley
• The 1619 Project edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones 
• Read a book by a disabled author
• Continuum by Chella Man
• Just Roll with It by Veronica Agarwal & Lee Durfey-Lavoie
• We Move Together by Kelly Fritsch (disabled), Anne McGuire (disabled), & Eduardo Trejos
• Always Only You by Chloe Liese
• The Way She Feels by Courtney Cook
• Growing Pangs by Kathryn Ormsbee & Molly Brooks
• Button Pusher by Tyler Page
• Still Just a Geek: An Annotated Memoir by Wil Wheaton
• What Happened to You? by James Catchpole (disabled) & Karen George
• Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky
• Pick a challenge from any of the previous years' challenges to repeat
• Loveless (Romance by trans or nonbinary author from 2021) by Alice Oseman
• Heartwood: Non-Binary Tales of Sylvan Fantasy (SFF anthology edited by POC from 2021) edited by Joamette Gil